MouseTweaks

MouseTweaks is a collection of accessibility enhancements for pointing devices. The mousetweaks package provides the functions offered by the Accessibility tab of the Mouse preference tool. It also contains two panel applets related to the mouse accessibility. More particularly:

  • It allows users to perform a secondary click by doing a click-and-hold of the primary mouse button.
  • It offers a way to perform the various clicks without using any hardware button. In this context, the Dwell Click panel applet can be used to choose what click type to perform.
  • It provides the Pointer Capture panel applet. This applet creates an area on the panel into which the pointer can be captured until the user releases it with a predefined button and modifier combination.

Most mouse-related accessibility options can be found by using System ▸ Preferences ▸ Mouse and selecting the Accessibility tab. Two additional panel applets can optionally be added to the GNOME menu bar / system panel as well; see the sections below. The full manual can be viewed by selecting the Help item from the contextual menu of the Dwell Click applet.

Configuring a Keyboard-Based Mouse