right click menu on mouse release (windows behavior)

I'm trying to change the behavior of the right click menu in ubuntu 10.10 because I use Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

When you right click you need to hold the right click and select something.

In Windows the is different right click (release) select something with left click

Is there a way to change this in ubuntu?

I'm running the ubuntu in vmware 7

Is that behavior normal?

It's really annoying behaviour for mouse when it opens context menu on right-click-down event, I tried to fix it in driver level but I couldn't. But I found very reliable workaround to fix it.

1) Install Easystroke Gesture Recognition from repository

sudo apt-get install easystroke

2) Open Easystroke then go to preferences tab, in Behavior section click Gesture Button

and right click on the rectangular area in Select a Mouse or Pen Button window.

3) In Timeout Profile dropdown list pick up Timeout Off

That's all! You don't need to add an action

At least in newer Ubuntu versions, this is a design decision. There seems to be no way to change the default behaviour.

Behavior: click and hold the right button and then release on the chosen menu option.

Sources:

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/320259
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=810597
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1988352
• Mouse clicks when I release the button

This is not the normal behaviour in Ubuntu. The normal behaviour is the same as you described for Windows.

As far as I know, there is no way to change this right click behaviour.

It might be a problem with running Ubuntu in vmware, although I can't think how this would make a difference. You could try dual booting or using a different virtualisation solution such as virtualbox.

Was it like this when you first installed Ubuntu? Also, are you running Ubuntu or Kubuntu? (You tagged your question with KDE, which is only installed by default in Kubuntu).