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The left mouse button is used primarily to select objects in a graphical interface. Some computing systems allow the user to switch the mouse buttons around, particularly to allow for those who are right-handed. In such configurations, the left mouse button serves an auxiliary purpose, such as opening pop-up menus.

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In today's computing, the right mouse button is used to call up context-sensitive menus regarding what you click.The right mouse button has been a feature in the PC world since relatively early days. While underused in the DOS and Windows (up to 3) environments, the UNIX world regularly used right and even middle buttons to call up additional menus for various (usually context-sensitive) tasks. Linux and BSD inherited this early methodology.

The PC world in general caught up with the release of 32-bit operating systems like OS/2 and most notably Windows 95. In these OS's, the right mouse button gained the UNIX concept of calling up context-sensitive menus. Clicking a file, for example, would show the various things you can do with it.

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display a menu of tasks or options that change depending on where you click..

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