Windows 10: Mousekeys: Any way to make clicking the right and left click simultaneously do a middle click?

I currently use windows and linux mint. And on linux, if you press the left and right click simultaneously or three fingers on trackpad you do a middle click. I'm not a huge fan of having to press the scroll wheel to middle click because I sometimes unintentionally scroll. Is there any way to do a middle click by pressing both buttons?Just a note, I use the Logitech MX Master 3. I'd be happy even if its just a workaround for the specific mouse.

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Mousekeys: any way to change "both click" to "middle click"?

Hi,

I've got nerve issues in my hands that mean that it's very painful to use a normal mouse. So I was trying to use the Accessibility Mousekeys setting to use my keyboard instead.

At work I use Linux, and Mousekeys just works. I have access to all three of left, middle and right click.

At home, I'm using Windows 10. The three click options however are left, "both left+right", and right click. There is no middle click - which I use frequently and very sorely miss!

I have two questions:

• Is there a setting somewhere where I can turn on the equivalent of "emulate middle-click with both-click" for Windows Accessibility Mousekeys? (i.e. it's not a touchpad, it's the accessibility settings that allow you to use the numberpad of ANY keyboard).
  Or is there any other way I can get a middle-click action (e.g. Something like shift+left-click is middle-click).
• Under what circumstances is "both-click" ever useful/usable? Why does Mousekeys in Windows do something that as far as I am aware of is useless instead of providing the middle-click that other OSs do?

 

Mousekeys: any way to change "both click" to "middle click"?

To put this in perspective:

• There is a 31 year old standard for what the disability/accessibility option for Mousekeys (controlling the mouse cursor with only a keyboard) should provide.
• Microsoft provides 3 modes. Two of the three modes Microsoft provide meet the standard. The third mode Microsoft provide (where a "click" sends both left and right click at the same time, instead of sending the "modifier button"/middle mouse button the
  standard sets out) is meaningless in modern Windows.
• This means that of the 3 modes Microsoft provide, one is completely broken - it represents nothing usable or useful in the operating system itself.
• Thus, my conclusion is that Microsoft are NOT meeting the minimum standards for accessibility in their current implementation of Mousekeys.

I can understand that third mode being "both-click" coming from a history where mice didn't have a third button originally - and the operating system had an option to emulate the middle mouse button by clicking both the left and right buttons at the same
time.

However, it appears that Microsoft have removed the option to do middle button emulation -
without updating the accessibility setting that depended on it being there. This
breaks/makes meaningless the third mode of the Mousekeys accessibility feature!

This isn't a fault with a stand-alone mouse. There is no mouse hardware involved. These are basic accessibility/disability features
built into Windows itself that are partly unusable!

 

Mousekeys: any way to change "both click" to "middle click"?

"Mousekeys" is an Ease of Access setting to use the numberpad of any keyboard to control the cursor.

There *is* no mouse to give you a make/model for. There is only any standard keyboard, and built-in Accessibility settings in Windows.

Use Mouse Keys to move the mouse pointer

Mouse keys - Wikipedia

For some reason, MS Windows sets what should be the middle mouse button setting to "click both left+right". I don't understand why it should be set to a useless setting => as far as I know, there are no situations where clicking both left and right mouse
button keys at the same time is actually useful.

I'd like to be able to use the middle-click instead of both-click, as both-click has no meaning/use.