If you tell somebody to Control Click on something that will work. It doesn't matter if you have a mouse or a trackpad. It doesn't matter what your settings are. The great thing about this is it works in all situations. But simply Control Click or Control Clicking. As a matter of fact Apple usually refers to it as a Control Click, not a right click, not a two finger click, not bringing up the Context Menu. Now this is why this is often called Control Clicking. As long as you're holding the Control key down this changes that click from a primary click to a secondary click. In other words clicking on the left side of your mouse or just a single finger click on a trackpad. That's to hold the Control key down on your keyboard and click normally on either the mouse or trackpad. It doesn't matter what your settings are and it doesn't matter if you're using a mouse or a trackpad. Two fingers simulates the right click or secondary click.īut there's another way to trigger a secondary click. If you have a trackpad if you use one finger to click down that's the left click or primary click. The best way to do it is Click or Tap with two fingers. You could set it to Click or Tap with two fingers, Click in the bottom right or bottom left corner. On Trackpad Settings, under Point & Click, there's an option here for Secondary Click as well. So how do you trigger the secondary click. But what if you have a trackpad? There are no buttons. By default it's click on the right side although you could set it to click on the left side. This has to be turned On, first of all, and then you get to choose what triggers a secondary click. Go into System Preferences and under Mouse look for Secondary Click. Now whether clicking on the right side triggers a secondary click or not depends on your settings. Even though it doesn't appear that there are two separate buttons here the mouse knows where you're actually holding your finger when you click down. So if you use an Apple mouse like this one, yours probably is white, then you can usually get a secondary click by clicking on the right side. But that's what you usually get with a right click or the equivalent on a trackpad. I'll talk about what a Context Menu is in a minute. So it's also proper to say, Bring up a Context Menu. But what you're really doing, in most cases, is bringing up a Context Menu. So you may think of a left click as a primary click and a right click as a secondary click. So when you say you want to right click what you really mean is you want to use a secondary click. However, Apple mice like this one don't seem to have separate left and right buttons and trackpads don't have any buttons at all. So when someone says they want to right click what they mean is clicking the second button, the right button, on a mouse. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 800 supporters. Today let's talk about right clicking on a Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with.
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