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====== Emulating Right-Click with a One-Button Mouse or Trackpad ======
{{ :misc:1-button-trackpad.jpg?direct&400|1-button trackpad on an intel Polycarbonate Macbook}}

Older Macintosh models usually shipped with a one-button mouse. In fact, in a way, Apple computers still do: only that the older Ctrl-Click combination for it has now changed to two-finger click or long tap on the swanky force-feedback glass-topped totally-not-a-touchscreen type trackpads.

This causes a bit of a difficulty in most applications, as X11 / xenocara, by default, expect that BOTH right and middle mouse buttons would be available.

It is relatively easy to emulate a right-click, or to bind Ctrl-Leftclick as "rightclick" in X11. The below workaround will not work in the console, ie. outside of an x11 environment.

===== Packages to install =====

You will need:
  * xdotool (this should be in base)
  * xbindkeys (available via pkg_add)

===== Configuration =====
Generate an ''.xbindkeysrc'' file in your $HOME folder using xbindkeys:

<code>
$ xbindkeys -d > ~/.xbindkeysrc
</code>

Then, using your $EDITOR, add these two lines to it:

<code>
"xdotool click 3"
Control + b:1
</code>

Finally you just want to make sure that ''xbindkey'' is started on login. Usually this is done by adding it to your ''$HOME/.xsession'' file:
<code>
exec /usr/local/bin/xbindkeys
</code>

If using other Display Managers like MATE, you may have to specify it from its own "Settings" type program. E.g. on MATE this is under "System > Control Center > Startup Applications". Just click "Add" and type "xbindkeys" as the command.

{{ :misc:1-button-mice.jpg?400|Apple Macintosh Mouse M0100 }}