Feature #15718
Help Tails users on Mac access right-click menus
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Description
Now that I’m a Tails user on Mac (haha!) I realize that I don’t know how to do right-click from Tails on Mac.
We are documenting right-click in several places in our documentation:
- To unlock a VeraCrypt file container (upcoming)
- To verify a Tails image from Tails using OpenPGP
- To calculate checksums of files using GtkHash
- To securely delete files
In macOS I can do Ctrl+click to do right click but on Tails it doesn’t work.
I think at some point I found online an very obscure key combination that’s supposed to work on Linux but since two days I’ve looked for it again and can’t find it again. I bet most of our users won’t find it either.
So my questions are:
- To other Tails users on Mac: how do you do right-click in Tails? Then we should at least make this information easy to find in our documentation.
- To devs: could we consider making Ctrl+click do a right-click in Tails?
NB: Asking people to use an external mouse or avoid right-clicking is not an acceptable option.
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Resolved | 2016-01-08 |
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#1 Updated by sajolida 2018-07-05 16:13:16
Assigning to mercedes for his deep knowledge of Tails on Mac.
Ah, and that’s a personal note: I’m also looking for how to do “Delete” (and not “Backspace”) on Mac :)
#2 Updated by sajolida 2018-07-05 16:39:33
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Feature #15392: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: User experience added
#3 Updated by muri 2018-07-06 06:42:49
hi,
on a macbook air (11", i think its from 2011), i can right click using a ‘two-finger-tap’ on the touchpad. The ‘Delete’ button is emulated using Fn+Backspace.
#4 Updated by sajolida 2018-07-19 17:02:02
- Assignee set to intrigeri
- QA Check set to Info Needed
Super helpful muri, thanks!
- Fn+Backspace is also how to type “Delete” on macOS, so I’ll blame my ignorance here (and thank you again).
- Two finger tap is also advertised as an alternative to Ctrl+Click on macOS. But I’ll only partly blame my ignorance here because Ctrl+Click is the most documented option.
intrigeri: Do you think it would make sense to map Ctrl+Click to right-click on Tails as well?
See for example: https://askubuntu.com/questions/742920/ubuntu-to-mac-ctrlclick-right-click.
#5 Updated by intrigeri 2018-07-22 02:22:29
- Assignee changed from intrigeri to sajolida
> intrigeri: Do you think it would make sense to map Ctrl+Click to right-click on Tails as well?
I have no strong opinion on this but I’m curious about:
- why isn’t GNOME doing this by default on Mac hardware?
- is CTRL + left-click used elsewhere already, i.e. what would this change break?
With my FT hat on, if you tell me it’s the right thing to do, then I’ll take a clean, simple, and Wayland-compatible patch that implements it.
#6 Updated by sajolida 2018-07-26 19:41:44
> * why isn’t GNOME doing this by default on Mac hardware?
I could only find a ticket from 2008 about that:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559833
The information on there is partly outdated.
> * is CTRL + left-click used elsewhere already, i.e. what would this change break?
I realized only now that Ctrl+Click is a standard to toggle a list item
selection, for example in GNOME Files.
So I’ll fallback on documenting this. I was doubting whether documenting
this only in one place, but then I was not sure where, or documenting it
every time we use right-click.
See that we use right-click only in a few places, I’ll try to document
it every time and add it to the style guide.
#7 Updated by sajolida 2018-07-26 19:42:26
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Feature #15411: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: Technical writing added
#8 Updated by sajolida 2018-07-26 19:42:29
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Feature #15392: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: User experience
#9 Updated by intrigeri 2018-07-27 08:10:04
> I realized only now that Ctrl+Click is a standard to toggle a list item selection, for example in GNOME Files.
Good catch!
#10 Updated by sajolida 2018-08-06 18:45:06
- Target version set to Tails_3.10.1
#11 Updated by sajolida 2018-09-11 17:58:43
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Feature #15411: Core work 2018Q2 → 2018Q3: Technical writing
#12 Updated by sajolida 2018-09-11 17:58:49
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Feature #15941: Core work 2018Q4 → 2019Q2: Technical writing added
#13 Updated by sajolida 2018-10-21 20:36:17
- Target version changed from Tails_3.10.1 to Tails_3.11
#14 Updated by sajolida 2018-12-10 15:46:44
- Target version changed from Tails_3.11 to Tails_3.12
#15 Updated by sajolida 2019-01-28 18:45:34
- Target version changed from Tails_3.12 to Tails_3.13
#16 Updated by sajolida 2019-02-20 20:09:42
- QA Check deleted (
Info Needed)
#17 Updated by sajolida 2019-03-15 18:05:41
- Target version changed from Tails_3.13 to Tails_3.14
#18 Updated by sajolida 2019-05-10 11:14:38
- Target version deleted (
Tails_3.14)
#19 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-18 17:01:59
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Feature #16711: Core work 2019Q3 → 2019Q4: Technical writing added
#20 Updated by sajolida 2019-07-18 17:02:08
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Feature #15941: Core work 2018Q4 → 2019Q2: Technical writing
#21 Updated by sajolida 2019-08-28 14:06:03
- Status changed from Confirmed to Needs Validation
- Assignee changed from sajolida to cbrownstein
- Feature Branch set to doc/15718-right-click-on-mac
Here is a branch.
#22 Updated by sajolida 2019-09-24 16:55:45
@cbrownstein: Ping on this review. This one is pretty tiny.
#23 Updated by cbrownstein 2019-09-25 20:23:03
- Status changed from Needs Validation to In Progress
- Assignee changed from cbrownstein to sajolida
I pushed a single change to my branch. Otherwise, looks good!
https://0xacab.org/cbrownstein/tails/commits/doc/15718-right-click-on-mac
#24 Updated by sajolida 2019-09-28 00:52:16
- Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
- Assignee deleted (
sajolida)
Good catch!
I did something very silly earlier today and broke the build on the website. I merged it locally and will push this once it’s fixed by our dear sysadmins.