mousetweak5 not implemented / LockedDrags supprt

[Jacob Certain]

Binary package hint: mousetweaks

Expectation:
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An option in Ubuntu's mouse accessibility panel for locked dragging. Ie, if on, a click and drag gesture is active until you tap a second time.

Current reality:
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There is no such option in 10.04 or 10.10 in the mouse accessibility panel.

This is an essential feature for many disabled users, an example is here: <http://askubuntu.com/q/24558/8515>. The closest I've come to replicating the desired behaviour is with evdev's DragLockButtons, which sacrifices a mouse button and requires twice as many clicks. Incidentally, the synaptics driver has LockedDrags which is exactly what I want, but for a normal mouse or trackball. It looks like mousetweak5 implements, or is supposed to implement, this feature.

System info:
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jake@daedalus:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS
Release: 10.04

jake@daedalus:~$ apt-cache policy mousetweaks
mousetweaks:
  Installed: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Maga Laan (magalaan)]

I miss this too, it should be part of the general mouse settings

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Not every hardware works with "touch" and a mouse is still hugely used. But if a mouse module is builtin the kernel, setting custom choices/needs is a real nightmare. Gpointing-device-settings cant solve all the issues, specially the drag problem.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/24558/where-is-the-accessibility-mouse-click-lock
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Specs/MouseTweaks/mousetweak5

[Francesco Fumanti (frafu)]

Onboard might be offering what you are looking for: if you use the Compact or Full layout shipping with Onboard, there is a button to make click buttons appear, that allows you to change the behaviours of the clicks.

A click on the click button showing a hand enables the drag mode by click: the next click initiates dragging without having to keep the mouse button down. The drag procedure ends when the pointer stops moving. (Older versions of Onboard required a second click to terminate the dragging procedure, but this had to be changed to work around a bug.)

[dino99 (9d9)]

This was reported againgst a now not supported release.
Mousetweaks is now 3.12