Let us assume that the user has enabled the Simulated Secondary Click feature.

To perform a simulated secondary click, the user has to keep the primary mouse button pressed without moving the pointer for a determined time. As soon as the determined time has elapsed, the simulated secondary click is issued.

While the primary mouse button is being held pressed, mousetweaks will fill the arrow of the pointer with another color to give feedback that it is counting down the time before issuing the simulated secondary click.

How long the user has to hold the primary mouse button pressed, is determined by the Delay slider located under the activation checkbox. By using this slider, the user can choose the delay most appropriate to him.

People that have trouble to keep the pointer completely motionless can use the Motion Threshold slider of the Dwell Click feature. This setting makes mousetweaks ignore little mouse movements, so that the simulated secondary click is issued even if the pointer is not completely motionless. Please have a look at the section of the Motion Threshold slider of the Dwell Click feature for more information about it.

As the Simulated Secondary Click is not able to discard the mouse button down event from the primary button press of the user, it issues a primary click just before issuing the secondary click. In other words, each secondary click performed by this function is immediately preceded by a primary click, and this makes it behave a bit differently to the normal secondary click performed by the secondary mouse button. For example:

Some users may also be surprised by the consequences of the following: it is not possible to perform a long motionless primary button click and hold, without also triggering the secondary click. For example:

Each time the pointer stops moving, a dwell click is initiated. To give feedback to the user, mousetweaks will fill the arrow of the pointer with another color while it is counting down the time before the click completion kicks in.

How the click is completed and how the click type is chosen depends on what dwell mode the user has selected. The two available modes are:

To select the mode, the user only has to click on the radio button that corresponds to his choice.

4.2.1.1. Automatic Click Completion With Click Type Choice Beforehand

This mode is active when the user selects Choose type of click beforehand. In fact, after the mouse has been motionless for the time defined by the Delay slider, the system will automatically perform the click type that is selected in the Click Type Window shown here:

To display the Click Type Window on the screen, the user has to put a checkmark in the checkbox named “Show click type window”:

After the click has occurred, the single click type will be automatically restored. In order to choose another click type, the user has to perform an automatic click on the button in the Click Type Window that corresponds to his click type choice.

Instead of the Click Type Window some users might prefer to use the Dwell Click panel applet, that has some advantages:.

Indeed, by using the Dwell Click panel applet:

• The user does not need the Click Type Window that might cover other windows on the desktop.
• The user has a direct way to start and stop the dwell click by using the On/Off button of the Dwell Click applet. This is especially useful when he wants to disable dwelling for a little while to read some text without the interference of a dwell click.

To display the Dwell Click applet on the GNOME panel, the user has to follow the usual procedure to add applets to the GNOME panel. An example about how to do it can be found in the section Starting The Pointer Capture Function.

The Click Type Window and the Dwell Click applet can be used simultaneously or each on its own.

4.2.1.2. Click Completion And Click Type Choice By Mouse Gesture

This mode is active when the user selects Choose type of click with mouse gestures. In fact, after the mouse has been motionless for the delay defined by the Delay slider, the shape of the pointer will change for a little time lapse; let's call this shape the gesture shape:

• If the user moves the pointer while it is showing the gesture shape, a click is performed at the location where the pointer was last motionless; finally the pointer returns to its normal shape. The type of click performed depends on the direction of the movement of the mouse. During the movement of the pointer, a line is drawn following the movement of the pointer to give feedback to the user.
• If the user keeps the pointer motionless until it returns to its normal shape, the user can move the mouse without a click being performed. The next dwell click can be performed at the next pointer stop.

The user also has the possibility to match click type with movement direction by using the 4 popups available:

There is also a Disabled menu item in each popup. The user can select it if he does not want some click types to be performed automatically. This is especially interesting for users that have problems with only certain click types.

With the Delay slider, the user can configure how long the pointer has to be motionless for the click to be initiated.

For people that have trouble to keep the mouse motionless, there is the Motion Threshold slider.

When the slider is set towards low, even little mouse movements are considered; however, by setting a higher threshold, the pointer has to travel a bigger distance before it is considered as moving.