i cant right click

[skakid177]

i used to have kubuntu on my ibook g4 and my right click was mapped to the eject/f12 button. now after switching to ubuntu my keys are all mapped correctly but now i dont have a right click anymore. suggestions?

[linuxopjemac]

what about F11 ? You can install mouseemu

sudo apt-get install mouseemu

to have this back

[skakid177]

where is that. synaptic says i already have it installed but i cant find it on my computer. i just have a mouse preferences which doesnt have what i need

[linuxopjemac]

is mouseemu loaded at startup ?

what does the following give you:

ps -ax | grep mouseemu

cat /etc/default/mouseemu

[skakid177]

matt@ubuntu:~$ ps -ax | grep mouseemu
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
1214 ? S<s 0:00 /usr/sbin/mouseemu
1215 ? S< 0:01 /usr/sbin/mouseemu
2425 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto mouseemu
matt@ubuntu:~$
matt@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/default/mouseemu
# Defaults for mouseemu initscript (/etc/init.d/mouseemu)
# These are the default values on PowerPC. On all other architectures
# middle and right click are disabled by default.
# Key codes can be found in include/linux/input.h in the kernel headers
# or by using `showkey` in a console.


#MID_CLICK="-middle 0 87" # F11 with no modifier
#MID_CLICK="-middle 125 272" # Left Apple Key (LEFTMETA) + click
#RIGHT_CLICK="-right 0 88" # F12 with no modifier
#RIGHT_CLICK="-right 29 272" # Left Ctrl + click
#SCROLL="-scroll 56" # Alt key
#TYPING_BLOCK="-typing-block 300" # block mouse for 300ms after a keypress




im not sure what that all means.

[linuxopjemac]

I think I see the problem...

you have to edit the /etc/default/mouseemu file

sudo nano /etc/default/mouseemu

you are now in an editor and you see the text. Remove the # in the second part of the file to make it look like this (NOT EVERYWHERE!):

# Defaults for mouseemu initscript (/etc/init.d/mouseemu)
# These are the default values on PowerPC. On all other architectures
# middle and right click are disabled by default.
# Key codes can be found in include/linux/input.h in the kernel headers
# or by using `showkey` in a console.


MID_CLICK="-middle 0 87" # F11 with no modifier
#MID_CLICK="-middle 125 272" # Left Apple Key (LEFTMETA) + click
RIGHT_CLICK="-right 0 88" # F12 with no modifier
#RIGHT_CLICK="-right 29 272" # Left Ctrl + click
SCROLL="-scroll 56" # Alt key
TYPING_BLOCK="-typing-block 300" # block mouse for 300ms after a keypress

Then CTRL-X and "y" to save
Then restart and you should have right button at F12 and middle click button at F11, hope that is what you wanted...