Whenever I do a right click on my mouse on any browsers, it goes into “release the right click to do a left click” mode.
Like I usually do “Open in another tab” on youtube videos with my mouse. Right click opens the context menu (but I haven’t released the click yet), I could just move my cursor and release on that option and I won’t have to do another left click anymore.
but this is annoying to me as I have a habit of just spamming right clicks for no reason and I keep hitting the Reload or Back button all the time. Plus, “Two fingers tap to open context menu” is useless when I’m using touchpad as it goes into that “release to click” mode and I can’t even drag the touchpad with the same consistency.
I remember that this was not an issue on Fedora 6 months ago and has been an issue on my latest install of fedora. I’m on KDE Plasma 6.2.5 right now on Wayland
Hi! Just to check, are you saying that:
- Right-clicks (press and release) get stuck in a pressed state until something else happens
or,
- You are trying to find some way to stop the right-click and hold to show a menu > move to a menu item > release to select workflow from functioning
Thanks for replying,
The second option.
I do not want the right-click(1) to open context menu and if I hover over the context menu without releasing the click (1), it’s gonna select the item my cursor is at.
I do not want this. This is not practical to use with a touchpad and I just hate it even with the mouse.
If you need more context, I can record a video of that and post it in.
Ah - I’ll have to defer to someone with more in-depth knowledge of how input can be manipulated then! I’d guess it would have to be done at a pretty low level (interpreting input, vs. how app toolkits respond to input) to be consistent - maybe something like artificially “releasing” all held-down right-clicks?
For what it’s worth, though - you mentioned that you feel it’s gotten worse recently. Perhaps something changed with your mouse pointer acceleration values, and it might be worth testing out different settings there?
I don’t think any of the mouse pointer settings have any hand in this. I have an annoying habit of doing rightclick-leftclick bunch of times randomly for no reason while reading youtube comments and the “release-to-click” feature is putting the downer on that habit as it sort of hovers around the reload button.
I was in Arch until a couple months ago and this feature was not there. Moreover, I was using fedora 40 like 6 months ago and this feature was not there. It’s only in this recent install of fedora 41 that I’m noticing this.
I tried getting help from Fedora official discord server and while they tried their best, they suggested that this could’ve come from KDE and directed me towards this forum.
I know that the most obvious solution would be for me to just stop doing the right-left click a bunch of times but old habits die hard I guess.
Ironically, what you’re describing there sounds like a “rocker gesture” in Vivaldi: Rocker Gestures | Vivaldi Browser Help
I don’t know if there’s an extension that does something equivalent within Firefox, but that might be a way to help manage it if you’re mostly spending time within your browser 
Uhh the “rocker gesture” looks to be utilizing both left and right clicks, but my issue involves only the right click and during the release of the initial right click, it does the job of the left click.
I’m currently on Brave but this issue is there also with Chrome, Firefox (I’ve only tested these browsers). And this issue doesn’t seem to occur with Gnome.
I see what you mean - I was interpreting “doing rightclick-leftclick bunch of times” as that gesture.
For what it’s worth, Vivaldi does only show the context menu on a click being released because of its gesture support, so either using that browser or trying to find an extension that would occupy right-clicks the same way might be a way around that.
I think it mostly affects Chromium based browsers. Like when I hold right click, the cursor even turns from pointer to a crosshair like icon. In Firefox, it doesn’t turn to crosshair but still has the same effect.
Again, none of these happen in Gnome so somewhere something is doing things differently based on the environment.
Anywhoo, I guess this is one of the things I just gotta deal with. Thanks for trying!
ui.context_menus.after_mouseup
Umm I don’t know where to use this info…
Sorry I figured that would be enough for your search engine.
In firefox, open a new tab, and in the address bar, type about:config
and hit enter.
Type ‘mouseup’ into the text box at the top. you will see a variable by the name above. It should like something like this:
Click the toggle button on the right to set it to ‘true’. Now your menus will appear after mouseup, rather than after mousedown.
Sorry I figured that would be enough for your search engine.
I’m sorry I didn’t realize that it was for the browser and not the whole KDE. I was going around in circles trying to figure out a Desktop Rule with that info.
Not to look at a gift horse in the mouth, but I don’t really use Firefox and haven’t used Firefox in ages. I went to brave://flags
on Brave and chrome://flags
on Chrome and Chromium and could not find any similar settings. Since this occurs in a similar fashion in all browsers, can I disable this globally?
Sadly no. It’s common to the browsers because they are all chrome, except firefox which copies chrome, but it’s not done at an OS level or in any coordinated fashion, so there’s no way to change it for all of them.
Unfortunately I don’t use chrome so I’m not sure how to fix it there. Maybe another KDE user might know of an equivalent setting. GL!
uff this sucks but thank you for trying!