#1 2016-07-22 00:13:33

nathank1989

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Right click... With stylus?

Hello. I am testing an old tough book with a stylus enabled screen.
I searched and saw some posts about touch screens and using multi-finger touches, but the TB only responds to one input at a time, so a two finger right click is not an option.

In Gnome Desktop on Debian or Kali there was an accessibility option that enabled a secondary assisted click, where if I held the stylus down for long enough it would highlight blue and "right-click"

How do I do that with BL/OpenBox?

Last edited by nathank1989 (2016-07-22 00:14:41)

nathank1989

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Re: Right click... With stylus?

Ok so I downloaded and fiddled with dconf-editor and edited org->gnome->desktop-a11y->mouse->secondary-click-enabled
But that doesn't work

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Right click... With stylus?

I would recommend using GNOME for a touch-screen device, it's the best option IMO.

I have no idea about stylus/touchscreen integration in Openbox, sorry.

To install the GNOME desktop in BunsenLabs, use:

sudo apt install gnome-core

This will also pull in the GNOME display manager (gdm3) and it may be best to switch to that from LightDM to ensure maximal session functionality in GNOME:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3

I would also recommend dumping thunar for Nautilus as the latter is a superior file manager.
*ducks and runs*

EDIT: @hhh has a much better guide to GNOME-BL here:
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=2325

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-07-23 11:21:47)

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johnraff

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Re: Right click... With stylus?

I would also recommend dumping thunar for Nautilus as the latter is a superior file manager.
*ducks and runs*

Nautilus used to pull in a mountain of dependencies but last time I looked, it wasn't so bad. I might actually give it a try some day. Can you make custom actions like Thunar?

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Right click... With stylus?

Can you make custom actions like Thunar?

I must admit here that I don't really use graphical file managers (I find it quicker and simpler to use the shell) but I do believe that is possible:
https://packages.debian.org/jessie/nautilus-actions

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nobody

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Re: Right click... With stylus?

I would also recommend dumping thunar for Nautilus as the latter is a superior file manager.
*ducks and runs*

Nautilus used to pull in a mountain of dependencies but last time I looked, it wasn't so bad. I might actually give it a try some day. Can you make custom actions like Thunar?

ROFL. The only feature Nautilus is famous for these days is the removing of features.

You need a special extension which re-adds some sort of action editor.

KDE (and by extension the Dolphin file manager) has service menus which make that easier. For example

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
Actions=set_as_background_center;set_as_background_fill;set_as_background_max;set_as_background_scale;set_as_background_tile
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.4
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=image/*;

[Desktop Action set_as_background_center]
Name=Set as desktop background (center)
Exec=feh --bg-center %u

[Desktop Action set_as_background_fill]
Name=Set as desktop background (fill)
Exec=feh --bg-fill %u

[Desktop Action set_as_background_max]
Name=Set as desktop background (maximized)
Exec=feh --bg-fill %u

[Desktop Action set_as_background_scale]
Name=Set as desktop background (scaled)
Exec=feh --bg-scale %u

[Desktop Action set_as_background_tile]
Name=Set as desktop background (tiled)
Exec=feh --bg-tile %u

skbierm

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Re: Right click... With stylus?

Hi Nathank1989,

I have some Panasonic Toughbooks myself, but none of them does support multi-touch or right click for stylus input. On the front page is a key that could emulate the right click, but there isn't a kernel module, that supports the front keys.

Btw - which Modell and mk revision do you use?

Kind regards,

Sascha

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