surface PRO 4 pen right-clicking

Question

Hi

is there any way to change the right click behavior?

it is really frustrating to hold the button and then tap the screen, when the normal way is to just click the button, while hovering?

please let us change that strange behavior

all the best

Carsten Lind

Designer

LEGO

Answer 1

Hello Caligra,

Thank you for reaching out to the Surface community. Sorry to hear you are having trouble with right clicking. Can you provide us with more information on what exactly you are doing? Are you using a Cover for your Surface? As you stated right click behavior should be the same on the Surface as you would expect it to be on a PC if you are using a Cover or connecting a USB mouse to your device.

Best Regards

Answer 2

I know, I hate this too. The button to click is pretty hard relative to competitors, I just made a post telling Microsoft I have tendonitis thanks to there pen design.

By the way, as an artist and lifelong LEGO fan you have me deepest respect and jealously.

Answer 3

Hi Brian,

Perhaps I can help explain.

With a normal mouse Right clicking on a mouse you just hit the button. The surface 1 and any Wacom penabled tablet pens also work like this.

BUT with a Surface 4 (and 3) right clicking on a (surface) pen you have to press  AND hold AND THEN WHILE HOLDING, tap the screen. It seems like a little thing for people who don't really need pens, but for artists and professionals its a big difference.

Basically hover-click has been disabled.

The n-trig hardware fully recognizes the hover-click state and even gives a circle around your cursor to let you know its hearing the hover-click action. But it will not do anything until you tap the screen.

Back in the day you only had to click the button on the pen within a cm - inch of the screen, but one day Microsoft thought it would be better to disable hoverclick, much to the frustration of anyone who actually USES pens, because this is much harder on the wrists and no more accurate.

this holding the button, in tandem with how hard you have to press on the sp4 pen is what gave me tendonitis

It should be made a checkbox preference in the pen settings.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 4

You just elaborated my issue..  thanks

Answer 5

Hi,

The pen is working, with and without cover, that is not my issue.

My issue is the way right clicking works with the pen. Hold the pen side button, then tap the screen.

I want to change that into click the pen side button.

The side button is hard to hold, so just give us the option to change it into a normal button. instead of hover, hold and tap the screen, it should be hover and click  the side button. Look at some of the other replies, and you will see others who actually got injuries from the ergonomic strain it puts on our hands!