Imagine a keyboard that lacks the Win key. That's easy to emulate; you just press Ctrl + Esc. However, on the keyboard I have now, there isn't any "right mouse" key (or "context menu" key or whatever it might be called. It's usually placed close to AltGr and bears the sign of three horizontal bars or something).
I'm very used to pressing that key and not having it around slows me down (not to mention the annoyance aspect). How can I emulate it on this limited keyboard?
I think you're looking for Shift + F10.
Some smaller keyboards require you to use the Fn key in combination with F1 - F12 to use them. Most of the time you can 'function lock' with Fn + CapsLock or change the default behavior of the F keys in the BIOS.
The button you're referring to is called the 'Menu key' by the way.
You can use AutoHotkey (AHK) to remap the menu key to another key on your keyboard (even without having the key on your keyboard).
I detest the Caps Lock key, so I would use that instead:
Install AHK, and create a Notepad file, ending with .ahk, containing:
CapsLock::AppsKey
This triggers the menu key (AppsKey) when the Caps Lock button is pressed.
If you don't want to use the Caps Lock key, see here for a list of keys AHK supports.
I found using AutoHotkey (AHK) with the following script seemed to work
<^>!m::AppsKey
return
mapping
AltGr + m
to the Context Menu / Apps Key / Menu Key.
For some reason, if I tried to use just the AltGr key,
<^>!
it didn't work. I needed to add another key and chose "m" as it's close and easy to hit in combination.
To have this mapping run automatically after a reboot:
N.B.: If other people use the machine and do not want the mapping, use
shell:startup
instead.
