Comments on: Mac 101: Enable Right Click on Macs

By: Resuna

Resuna — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:35:12 +0000

1. Control-Click is a two-hand operation.

1a. I know I COULD train myself to use one hand for control click, but that would mess me up when I’m using an external mouse.

2. Control Click follows a different code path than right-click (which still boggles me… the lack of a proper input manager in OS X is a big problem) and not all applications follow the guidelines on control-click (particularly ported applications).

2a. I know I could be politically correct and spurn all non-conforming apps, but I got my computer to do work, not to be politically correct.

The bottom line is, Apple needs to get over the whole “one button mouse” thing, both on the trackpad and on the passive-aggressive “mighty mouse”.

By: Greenbook

Greenbook — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:10:38 +0000

@Resuna: You can always just ctrl click if you don’t want to have to touch the trackpad.

By: Josh Pigford

Josh Pigford — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:55:22 +0000

@NickFro: Useless comment day, huh?

By: Resuna

Resuna — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:28:32 +0000

Now if only they’d actually put a second button on the trackpad so you could really right click without having to touch the trackpad and risk joggling the mouse pointer you’ve got hovering over the right spot…

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:47:40 +0000

I really like the clicking option for trackpads. Just tap once for a click or double-tap for double click. I sorely miss the feature when using someone’s laptop to show them something. And it’s quieter than clicking the trackpad button.

By: Partners in Grime

Partners in Grime — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:42:40 +0000

The two-finger tips are for multitouch trackpad MacBooks.

SideTrack is a replacement driver for older iBook and PowerBook trackpads that gives the standard trackpad some extra features such as vertical and horizontal scrolling.

Link at versiontracker.com
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20854

By: Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:13:04 +0000

Of course, just connecting ANY two-button mouse will also “enable” right clicking on a Mac.

In fact, this article should be re-titled “Enable Right Click on the Apple Mighty Mouse and some recent Apple Laptops”, since there is NOTHING required to enable right clicking in any version of OS X–it’s always enabled in the operating system.

Trevor

By: Jenny Kortina

Jenny Kortina — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:02:48 +0000

@NickFro Actually I have a lot of friends who are new mac users and had no idea that you could do this since Apple has it disabled by default.

By: kortina

kortina — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:39:54 +0000

Sometimes I think we take stuff like this for granted. Then we use a computer where this is not setup and react, “wtf? no right click?!” I didn’t realize this could even be toggled on/off anymore. Good to know.

By: NickFro

NickFro — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:57:24 +0000

Slow news day, huh?