Right Click

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I install Debian on a Power book g3 and i need the right click function. I try mouseemu but it give me an error :

open: No such file or directory
No uinput device found! Make sure the uinput module is loaded
or CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT is compiled in kernel.

if there are other way for the right click function ?

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I was able to map the middle click to the useless menu key on my keyboard. The same procedure should work to map the right click to a key.

You need xkbset. As root do

apt-get install xkbset

As I understand, you then need to remove some of the default cursor control settings. Edit the file /usr/share/X11/xkb/compat/mousekeys with your favorite text editor and remove everything between interpret.repeat=False (or True) and // New Keysym Actions

Then create a script to turn it on and map the key. Save something like this to a file, say, rightclick.sh.

#!/bin/bash
# set XKB layout
setxkbmap -layout us
# turn on mousekeys
xkbset m
# stop mousekeys expiring after a timeout
xkbset exp =m
# map keysym to other keysym
xmodmap -e "keysym Menu = Pointer_Button3"

This would map the right click to the Menu button on a windows keyboard. Using the keycode also works.

xmodmap -e "keycode 135 = Pointer_Button3"

You can use xev to find the keysym/keycode of whichever key you want to use.

Then set this to run when you boot into X.

EDIT: Just wanted to acknowledge this guide for the help: Linux Aleph: mapping middle-click to a keyboard key

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