Middle mouse button = double-click?

[kskruser]

Hi all - Linux newbie & Windows refugee here. I have Debian 'Buster' (64 bit + KDE 'Plasma-5' + Nvidia video) successfully installed & mostly tweaked on my older X86 PC. Very happy with it so far!

In Windows, I had a little background program that would (at a low level) 'trap' a single-middle-button push and convert it to a double-click. I.e. any program, including Windows Explorer, would see a double-click. (Mouse is an old Logitech "Marble-Mouse" - 3 buttons, obviously.)

I really miss this little bit of wizardry.

Question: Is there a (simple!) way to accomplish this same conversion in Debian? (Remember, at a low level so that it works everywhere.)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

-Richard

[4D696B65]

https://manpages.debian.org/buster/xserver-xorg-input-libinput/libinput.4.en.html

[Head_on_a_Stick]

at a low level so that it works everywhere

It is possible to do what you want with xdotool & xbindkeys[0] but they only work under X. For Wayland configuration details like this depend on the compositor implementation and I don't think any of the available compositors support this functionality.