Comments on: Smarter Right Click in OS X

By: mike_drechsel

mike_drechsel — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:26:50 +0000

Can’t you also get the “right-click” effect by tapping the trackpad with two fingers at the same time? That’s what I do and I don’t think I have any special software installed to enable that functionality.

Great site, by the way. I’ve been reading your posts for some time now.

By: Martin Herrera

Martin Herrera — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:44:03 +0000

I don’t know why Apple does not publicize this more! I guess I found it because migrating from Windows, I was really missing a simple way to right click. It does make a great difference! Thanks for the blog!

By: Paul Sullivan

Paul Sullivan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:28:51 +0000

Wow, Thanks! My response was pretty much the same as yours. I can’t believe I didn’t know about this before. You just saved me a lot of annoyance.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:59:54 +0000

“Am I the only one that didn’t know about this?”

NO! Thank you for this simple, but life-improving tip.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:26:35 +0000

Absolutely you are (or were) NOT the only one. After the MacWorld Keynote and Steve Jobs’ demonstration of the MBA’s trackpad gestures, I was inspired to look in preferences on my own 1 year old MBP and “discovered” for myself both secondary clicks and 2 finger scrolling and have been using both ever since. Better late than never to the party.

By: Max

Max — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:00:39 +0000

“Am I the only one that didn’t know about this?”

Absolutely! Well it took me a few minutes after buying a MacBook to find it.

Have you also noticed that for 2 finger scrolling you only need to move one of the fingers? I lazily leave my right thumb on the track pad and use the first two fingers successively for faster scrolling.