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Help Tails users on Mac access right-click menus

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.

Feature Branch: doc/15718-right-click-on-mac

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Original created by @sajolida on 15718 (Redmine)

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