On 29/09/18 11:33, Chris Schram wrote:
> I have installed Debian with the Raspbian desktop on an external drive
> connected to an old mid 2009 MacBook.
>
> [For those of you not familiar with Macs, their trackpad has either a
> single button or no button at all. in macOS a right-click action is
> performed by either a Control-click or a two-finger tap. There are other
> nifty trackpad tapping features on newer Macs, but the 2009 MacBook is
> limited to only one or two finger taps.]
>
> Two problems showed up immediately on the Raspbian interface: no tapping
> allowed and no right-click possible. (Well, three problems actually: No
> Control-click allowed either, but I prefer tapping.)
>
> Once upon a time there was a mouseemu utility that was supposed to
> address this issue, but it is in the default distribution, it hasn't
> been updated in ages, and doesn't play well with Stretch.
>
> To make it perfectly clear, I want to be able to do a one or two finger
> tap on my MacBook's trackpad, and have it perform a left or right click
> for me. Ideas? If I have to use buttons instead of tapping, I can live
> with that. But no right-click is a deal breaker. Also, I'd like to avoid
> having to use an external two-button mouse.
>
> BTW, it's no biggie if the MacBook can't pretend to be a Pi. I have a
> couple of REAL Raspberry Pis and also Debian Raspbian running well in
> VirtualBox.
>

There are some hints that look worth pursuing here

https://askubuntu.com/questions/742920/ubuntu-to-mac-ctrlclick-right-click

It would seem that infinite remapping of everything is possible at the X
window level.




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