{"id":375,"date":"2009-06-11T22:29:57","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2009-06-12T00:05:40","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:05:40","slug":"handling-right-clicks-on-a-macbook-running-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2009\/06\/11\/handling-right-clicks-on-a-macbook-running-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling right clicks on a macbook running Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve finally settled down to a solution that I am happy with. I used to have the following options inside my Xorg.conf:
\nSection \"InputDevice\"
\n Identifier \"Synaptics Touchpad\"
\n Driver \"synaptics\"
\n[...snip...]
\n Option \"TapButton1\" \"1\"
\n Option \"TapButton2\" \"3\"
\n Option \"TapButton3\" \"2\"
\n Option \"VertTwoFingerScroll\" \"1\"
\n Option \"HorizTwoFingerScroll\" \"1\"
\n[...snip...]
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

This works like this:
\ni) a single tap is a left click
\nii) a two-finger tap is a right click
\niii) a three-finger tap is a middle click
\nand you could scroll horizontally and vertically using two fingers on the touchpad, like Mac OS X.
\nThe problem with this setup is that I used to have a lot of accidental double tappings while scrolling with two fingers horizontally or vertically. This of course produced unwanted right clicks.<\/p>\n

I wanted a solution that I could get right click in somehow like Mac OS X does it, using ctrl+tap\/ctrl+click. I found a solution that emulated ctrl+click as a right click but then many applications started misbehaving. Firefox for example uses ctrl+click on Linux to open a link on a new tab, when I used ctrl+click as a right click, Firefox stopped opening the links. So I went to plan B. <\/p>\n

CMD key(apple key)-click as a right click.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To achieve that:
\na) install xvkbd<\/a>.
\nDebian: apt-get install xvkbd
\nGentoo: emerge xvkbd
\nb) install xbindkeys<\/a>.
\nDebian: apt-get install xbindkeys
\nGentoo: emerge xbindkeys
\nc) create the default .xbindkeysrc file: xbindkeys –defaults > ~\/.xbindkeysrc
\nd) edit it and put the following inside: \"xvkbd -text '\\m3'\"
\n mod4 + b:1 (mouse)<\/code>
\ne) edit xorg.conf and set this: Option \"TapButton2\" \"0\"<\/code>
\nThis effectively disables double tapping as a right click.
\nf) restart X
\ng) open a terminal and start xbindkeys from it: $ xbindkeys -n -v<\/code>
\nNow press CMD key and tap the touchpad or click the touchpad button. You should be greeted with a fresh right click!<\/p>\n

If all went well put xbindkeys in your DE’s autostart.<\/p>\n

The following works flawlessly on XFCE<\/a>\/LXDE<\/a>. CMD-click or CMD-tap opens XFCE’s menu or LXDE’s desktop menu.<\/p>\n

On fluxbox<\/a> though there is still a problem. It’s very common for fluxbox key config to look something like the following:
\nOnDesktop Mouse1 :hideMenus
\nOnDesktop Mouse2 :workspaceMenu
\nOnDesktop Mouse3 :rootMenu
\nOnDesktop Mouse4 :nextWorkspace
\nOnDesktop Mouse5 :prevWorkspace
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

So to open the RootMenu, which is the basic menu with the applications shortcuts for fluxbox, one needs to actually right click on the Desktop. That worked with TabButton2=3<\/em> but it does not work right now. To get around that problem I binded the key left to (1\/!) which is normally the (\u00b1\/\u00a7) key on Macs to the Menu key using xmodmap.
\n $ cat .xmodmap
\nkeycode 94 = Menu
\n<\/code>
\nI never used that key anyway…<\/p>\n

I’ve now got my precious right click back without accidental miss-clicks. yihaa!<\/p>\n

References: FreeBSD on an Apple MacBook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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