Keyboard Shortcut for Mouse Right Click

There isn't one for left-click, though spacebar and Enter are often usable.

Right-clicking is usually a request for a context-sensitive menu which is performed on the keyboard either by typing

• ≣ Menu key (),

• Shift+F10,

• or sometimes Ctrl+Shift+F10.

About 65% of applications out there won't respond to the keyboard request for a context menu, because Windows programmers typically code WM_RBUTTONUP rather than the correct WM_CONTEXTMENU. Coding the latter allows for the correct action in response to the keyboard.

You can define your own using software like autohotkey:

Example

This code replaces:

• left alt to left mouse click
• right alt to right mouse click

Code:

LAlt::LButto
RAlt::RButton

Link to autohotkey keyboard remapping: link
Link to autohotkey download : link

I have a new Logitech K740 keyboard. It just replaced my old Dell letters-scratched-off key board that had built-in context menu selection and calculator shortcut keys.

The solution to the context menu issue on the Logitech K740 is FN + PrintScrn (shows a little page or list). This key combo pops open the context menu.

If you're looking for a keyboard equivalent of right-click in PuTTY (or SuperPuTTY) which does a paste, shift+insert does a paste