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David López

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Registered: 2012-08-26

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Simulate a right mouse click in gnome (Surface Pro 3 issue?)

Hi. I use gnome in a Surface Pro 3. There is an option in Universal Acess to simulate a Secondary Click with a long press (extremely useful in tablets as mine). However, it doesn't seem to work well, sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not completely sure, but I think I have to hold my finger twice in the almost the same point in order to simulate a click with the right button of the mouse.

It's not very difficult to do it in small buttons like the first figure. It's a bit annoying repeting the long press twice, but it is acceptable. However, it's almost impossible to repeat the press in the same place in open spaces as in the second figure.

http://s32.postimg.org/kkixvdtxx/Captur … _13_07.png

http://s32.postimg.org/s2ori5y39/Captur … 3_07_2.png

I'm not sure if the issue is related with the Surface Pro 3, or if it happens in more tablets. But the issue only happens using my finger in the touchscreen, with a usb mouse or even with the trackpad in the Type Cover the long press for emulating right mouse buttons seems to work fine.

BTW, I have archlinux completely updated and recently installed (in fact, the day before yesterday), and I use linux-surfacepro3 4.4.1-2 (wifi randomly freezes in kernel 4.5).

Any idea?

Edit: this problem could be related with https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=211951

Last edited by jasonwryan (2016-04-28 17:52:08)

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Re: Simulate a right mouse click in gnome (Surface Pro 3 issue?)

If you are going to spam the boards with purported Surface Pro issues, at least do us the courtesy of reading the Forum Etiquette and making some effort to follow the rules.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_code

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David López

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Registered: 2012-08-26

Posts: 98

Re: Simulate a right mouse click in gnome (Surface Pro 3 issue?)

If you are going to spam the boards with purported Surface Pro issues, at least do us the courtesy of reading the Forum Etiquette and making some effort to follow the rules.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/For … s_and_code

Sorry, I scaled the images, but I didn't know that 640x480 was too big. I've written several posts today, I'll change the images in all of them with the link. My apologies.