How do you "right click" with MacBook Pro...

[swerve]

I just got the COOLEST computer -- after WEEKS of research...

BUT...

I can't figure out HOW to "right click" with the touchpad -- like I could with my windows laptop...

Anyone know how to get it to work???

 

[andysayshi]

Hold Ctrl when you click.

 

[swerve]

Hold Ctrl when you click.

Thanks...

I should have asked several HOURS ago -- rather than trying to figure it out on my own!!!

SO SIMPLE and yet SO ILLUSIVE!!!

 

[_AJ_]

also on the macbook i believe you can use two fingers on the touch pad to do the same

 

[winslayer]

also on the macbook i believe you can use two fingers on the touch pad to do the same

This is true. Open System Preferences, go to Keyboard & Mouse, and you will see an option involving secondary clicks.. check this button, and then you can put two fingers on the pad, press the button, and there's your right click.

 

[davy]

if you really wanna see something cool, try crtl+apple+powerbutton


























.... uh... don't actually try it because it'll immediately shut off your mac.

 

[Kins123]

Try this for something even cooler:

Press and hold the shift button and then minimise (Yellow) a window.

 

[just_mills]

Buy a regular wireless mouse, compatible with Windows and Macintosh

So now I get to Thanks to you Gentry, for asking something I was unsure about, if I didn't have the mouse!

 

[andysayshi]

Try this for something even cooler:

Press and hold the shift button and then minimise (Yellow) a window.

That's hilarious - works in reverse, too.


My old favourite to freak out your Mac friends is Ctrl-Option-Cmnd-8

 

[Corny]

i'm always astonished that macs seem so "simple" as they always say

 

[ANDORYUU]

for a cool or not so cool effect, you decide; hold down Crtl+Cmd+Option+8 (to reverse it do the same key combo again). The effect will affect the whole system including the dashboard.