Stupid OS X Tricks: Easy Right-clicking With a Mac Book Pro

A friend of mind taught me a cool trick today to right-click with a trackpad in OS X by simply tapping the trackpad with two fingers.

Follow these steps:

1. Open System Preferences.
2. Select Keyboard & Mouse in the second row.
3. Click the Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click check box (that's a mouthful).
4. Close the dialog box.
5. Using two fingers, tap the trackpad and a right-click (or context) menu opens.

This is a very quick way to access right-click functionality, something that I hadn't quite discovered how to do consistently with OS X, and something I use often in Windows. What's more the two-finger tap also works while running Windows in Parallels

Comments

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Do you know about scrolling? Drag two fingers down the trackpad simultaneously, and you scroll whatever window you're in.

It's so damn useful and intuitive (once you learn it), I find myself trying to use it (usually unsuccessfully) on every other laptop I use.

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That's very cool. Thanks for sharing.

RM