[OT] Of Mac Right Clicks (was Re: "There Was a Problem Saving the Standalone Application")

Bill Vlahos bvlahos at mac.com
Sun Jul 23 18:26:11 EDT 2006


There is a new feature in Mac OS X 10.4.7. Put 2 fingers on the  
trackpad and click the button for a right click. Its a brilliant way  
to overcome what I considered a shortcoming of a one button laptop.  
In fact, I like it better than having two buttons.

Bill Vlahos

On Jul 23, 2006, at 5:28 AM, Todd Higgins wrote:

>
> On Jul 23, 2006, at 1:38 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>
>> That's a nifty piece of software. Do you use it? I'm wondering how
>> exactly one simulates a right-click? I wouldn't think taping on the
>> track pad would work all that well. In fact, I've turned off  
>> 'tapping'
>> on all my track pads for that reason
>
> My Macbook Pro is my primary machine, so I use the trackpad  
> constantly (So much I was starting to develop wrist pains from  
> constantly clicking with my thumb)  I originally got the software  
> for scrolling on my Powerbook (before Apple implemented two finger  
> scrolling support in hardware)
>
>  I use the trackpad tap set for "left click with drag" and the  
> trackpad button set for "right click"  People who want to borrow my  
> machine for a few minutes are throughly confused, but I'm a lot  
> more efficient and my wrist pain went away. I have 2 corners  
> currently set as buttons for Expose and Dashboard.  Chipp, if you  
> wanted to you could set one corner button to Delete (which is a  
> combo  fn+delete on a Apple laptop)
>
> Regards,
>
> Todd
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