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Improve Second Life Viewer Avatar Controls ("Double Right Mouse Button")

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Since Sep 2, 2026.

  • #6269 by @akleshchev — merged
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Description

I've been trying to emulate Firestorm's wonderfully intuitive "Mousewalking" into Second Life Viewer (SLV), because SLV doesn't have it.

"Mousewalking" is not the "point to and auto walk" feature already found in most viewers, its a Firestorm Viewer ability to manually move an avatar around with great precision by only using mouse controls.

By using "Mousewalking", fewer other keyboard controls are needed, which makes "Mousewalking" a real improvement to people with limited accessibility.

In SLV, I've assigned "Double Left Mouse Button" (Double LMB) to the "Alternate 2" control column for "Walk" to emulate Firestorm's "Mousewalking" walking mode. And it works well.

But running is a different matter. In Firestorm, double clicking the right side mouse button will make the avatar run. But in SLV, no such "Double RMB" option is available.

Could we please have "Double RMB" as a control option in Second Life Viewer?

Until then, I've assigned my middle mouse button (MMB) to do the job of a lacking SLV "Double RMB" to do the running, which isn't ideal, because the MMB toggles the voice operation...! :D

https://secondlife.canny.io/admin/feedback/bug-reports/p/improve-second-life-viewer-avatar-controls-double-right-mouse-button

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