Simulate right click

[3x5co]

I see a couple solutions for this, for Gnome-Shell: one in accessibility settings, and one with an extension. However, I don't see a solution for Phosh. Is there a way to simulate right-click with a long press?

[bitsandnumbers]

It's already there in some apps (try in Firefox for instance : if you long press your tab bar, you'll get the same menu you get with a right click on desktop, it also work in other places, but true : not everywhere).

[pagesix1536]

This shouldn't be an app-specific function. Phosh (if it was developed right) should know that a long-press = right click. For any any application.

[3x5co]

There is a version of xdotool for Wayland called wtype, but I haven't looked to far into it. I don't know if the syntax is the same, but I would imagine we could use this to simulate right-click with long press.

I use Vivaldi browser on Mobian and it allows you to simulate right-click with two-finger touch; however, I agree with the above poster that this shouldn't be app-specific.

https://github.com/atx/wtype

[wibble]

This came up years back with openmoko, and wasn't as simple as it initially seemed. It's fine building that sort of long-touch modifier behaviour into a new system like android did, because you don't have to worry about what it will do with the whole range of existing applications. We don't have that luxury - we have existing applications doing long-press handling of their own for things like menu buttons that have a default action for a normal click, but drop down to reveal other options on a long press. We have timing stuff for drag detection that gets messed up when you start altering the timing with your long-press detection. It was tried, and it broke an unexpectedly large number of things. The least problematic solution back then was a modifier button in the task/navigation/whatever bar to make the next touch action a middle or right one instead of a left one. Multitouch didn't exist on the resistive screen though, so maybe there's a better option now., but don't assume it's going to be something simple that works for everything.

[preflex]

Long press is annoying when scrolling through text.  I prefer a two-finger thing, like on a lot of trackpads.  It worked well with XFCE on the HP Touchpad.  I don't remember how all the setup worked.

[3x5co]

In addition to right-click, it would be good to simulate or replace double-click. I find it pretty difficult to get songs to play in gmusicbrowser, on Mobian, because the double-clicking doesn't often work properly.

Maybe I could slow down the double-click speed, but there are not accessibility settings on Mobian.

[NormandC]

I'm not sure if it works in current mobian stable, I'm using the Mobian unstable repo which has upgraded packages.

Simulating right-click is already available system-wide. Just switch to the terminal keyboard in squeekboard (it's available in any app now). Then press the ">_" key to get the screen with all the F keys. The Menu button (lower row, second button) acts like a right-click.

   

[3x5co]

@NormandC Thanks for the reply. I'm runnning a newly upgraded Mobian stable, and this does not yet work for me. Also, this is kind of a cumbersome solution. Holding press would be better. But I will keep an eye out for this feature and try it once it becomes available.

I wish I could use the terminal keyboard as my default. I have to switch it literally every time I use the keyboard. Why can't it be the default? Maybe if I uninstall the English and emoji keyboards, it'll have to default to it.