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I am using a MacBook Air running OS X 10.7 (Lion) with Screen Sharing application to view the display of a Linux box running Emacs. I need a mouse middle click. How can I generate a mouse-middle click event from the Macintosh without an external mouse?

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WilliamKF
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This question is similar to one previously posted where Kevin Y suggested BetterTouchTool. I found this to work better than MiddleClick.

Unfortunately the effect of setting a trackpad event to "Middleclick" has drastically different effects depending on the OS and program. because "Middleclick" has no function in OSX if you want to use it natively, I suggest a seperate or similar event to a keyboard shortcut such as ⌘C, or ctrl-C for general use in a Linux environment.

That being said, setting a trackpad event to "Middleclick" works as expected in Emacs.

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Ocasta Eshu
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  • Wheel (middle) click: not available by default. Try MiddleClick, it seems to work on Lion.

  • Wheel scrolling: Two finger scrolling as shown in the video in System Preferences » Trackpad.

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