Right mouse button brings up context menu instead of letting me scroll with the mouse
Bug #129413 reported by
Gergely Máté
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
When I press the right mouse button, it brings up the context menu. It should let me scroll in all four direction with the mouse, and bring up the context menu only if I press the left mouse button also. This setup seems far more powerful in these days of large, scrollable windows in large, scrollable windows than the classic context menu style. Clicking the small scroll buttons or the also small scrollbar is a pain. Doing the same on a laptop is much more pain.
Therefore I consider the context-menu behaviour of the right mouse button instead of a modifier behaviour for the mouse to work as a four direction scrolling device a bug.
The fixture of this bug probably should be posted into the OIN (http://
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| Gergely Máté (sportember) wrote This is a touchpad only problem | #1 |
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| Gergely Máté (sportember) wrote | #2 |
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After further thinking about the problem, I realized, that it affects laptop and notebook users only. Whilst using the right button on a Synaptic Touchpad for "scrolling toggle" and using the right and left buttons together to get the context menu empowers such users greatly, using it on desktop computers with mice rises a great problem: the user goes out of mousepad space very soon and very often.