Some desktop environments (DE) like XFCE do not support this feature out of the box.

This tutorial works in both X11 and Wayland based setups, and is DE agnostic.

This can be achieved with https://github.com/PeterCxy/evdev-right-click-emulation/

First, install the build dependencies

sudo apt install build-essential git libevdev-dev

Then, download the source

git clone https://github.com/PeterCxy/evdev-right-click-emulation.git

Now, go to `evdev-right-click-emulation` directory, and change the line 19 of Makefile to the following (otherwise, it will fail to compile in recent versions of Ubuntu/Debian)

$(CC) $^ -o $@ $(CFLAGS)

Now, let's build it.

cd evdev-right-click-emulation make all

If the build succeeds, it should create the binary file `out/evdev-rce`. To test it, run it with sudo,

sudo evdev-right-click-emulation/out/evdev-rce

which should produce an output like

Found touch screen at /dev/input/event3: Elan Touchpad Found touch screen at /dev/input/event2: hid-over-i2c 06CB:7817

Afterward, long tap to enable right click should work!

Run the following command (copy paste the multi-line command into the terminal and press enter) to enable this feature permanently, once and for all!

(it creates a systemd service so that the program would run as root at startup)

sudo bash -c 'cat > /etc/systemd/system/long-tap-right-click.service <