The touchscreen works well as a mouse substitute, but it lacks right-click support. The solution given on the Raspberry Pi website works only in Wheezy, but a better solution exists in the form of twofing, which allows you to generate a right-click by tapping the screen using two fingers.
First, go to http://plippo.de/p/twofing for the basic instructions on downloading and compiling the package. Before rebooting as instructed, however, you need to perform some additional steps. First, create a.rules file:
Add the following line, save and exit: KERNEL=="event*",ATTRS{name}==" FT5406 memory based driver",SYMLINK+ ="twofingtouch",RUN+="/bin/chmod a+r / dev/twofingtouch"
If successful, this should launch the calibration screen. Press Ctrl+c to exit, then type twofing and hit Enter to launch it. Close the Terminal window and experiment with tapping the screen with two fingers and…
