Mapping ctrl-click to right click?

[Thiago Macieira]

ben chang wrote:
>I'd like to map Ctrl+Click to R-click; meaning, hold down the Ctrl key
> and click button 1, and have that be reported as Button 3.  The most I
> can figure out how to do is just map the Ctrl key by itself to Button
> 3, but that's not quite right :)
>
>The reason is because I'm using Linux on a Macbook.  Since the early
> 1980's Apple has steadfastly believed that all humans only have one
> finger, so their mice and, more importantly, laptop touchpads only have
> one button.
>
>At some point this led to the "Ctrl+Click" convention for contextual
> menus and other things that are normally done with R-click.  In Linux
> we can get mouse buttons 2 and 3 using multi-finger touch or tap on the
> touchpad through the synaptics driver, but that's kind of awkward.
>
>The other obvious solution is of course to dremel out a little bit of
> the case and solder in two more buttons but I thought I'd check on this
> first 'cause that would be kind of messy.

Can't you use the three-finger tap to mean button 3?

In any case, this is the wrong list. Please ask in an X users mailing 
list.

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