The right click on the touch-operated Ubuntu Desktop is not completely unimplemented. Besides the possibility of using the right-click emulation of Onboard one can right-click by holding one finger on the place where one wants to right click, and while holding the finger down tapping with another finger on an arbitrary place of the touch screen and after that sliding the held down first finger through the context menu to the desired item and releasing there, which leads to the item being selected. It works on the standard (in my case Unity) desktop and even in XBMC.
This gesture is rather awkward and far from intuitive to find without any instructions (see the time between this comment and my creation of the touch screen/convertible Blueprint to which this bug is linked), especially also where Android and Windows 8 use a long press as right click, and the Ubuntu Desktop is usually installed as an alternative operating system on machines which are originally supplied with Windows or Android and so conserving operation schemes from these systems makes switching over to Ubuntu much easier. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to mousetweaks in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1212736 Title: Touch screen: Right click should be emulated by long press, like under Windows 8 and Android Status in “mousetweaks” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Twist convertible ultrabook (Intel Core i7). The tablet mode (touchscreen-only operation, keyboard folded away) gets continuously working better. One important missing feature is an easy-to-do right click. The right- click emulation button in Onboard is a rather awkward solution, as Onboard only shows up when selecting a text input field. I suggest to emulate the right-click by a long press on the screen. It is done in Android this way, too, and works very well for me. Note that the long-press right-click functionality in "Universal Access" in the Control Center only works with a mouse and not with the touch screen (another bug). I am using Saucy 64-bit and the standard Unity desktop. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mousetweaks/+bug/1212736/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
