How To Use Right Mouse Button On Mac

How To Use Right Mouse Button On Mac

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If your laptop has a mouse, you can right click on it very easily. However, sometimes, you need to right click on a laptop without using a mouse. In this case, you need to use the touchpad or keyboards to give a right click. In this post, MiniTool Partition Wizard shows you how to right click on a laptop with the touchpad or keyboards.
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Right-click on Mac Control-click on a Mac is similar to right-click on a Windows computer—it's how you open shortcut (or contextual) menus on a Mac. Control-click: Press and hold the Control key while you click an item. For example, Control-click an icon, a window, the toolbar, the desktop, or another item. Sep 03, 2019 Putting right-click onto the right button of my mouse lets me use my Mac 'muscle memory' on the iPad. You can also right-click on Dock icons to bring up their contextual menus — the.
In general, most laptops have a built-in touchpad, which can be regarded as a replacement of the mouse. You can use the touchpad to perform various operations, including right click. Apart from the touchpad, some operating systems allow you to use keyboards to perform a right click.
However, different operating systems require different gestures or key combinations to give a right click. Here, I will show you how to right click without a mouse (mainly on Windows, Chrombook, and Mac).
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How to Right Click on Windows LaptopsIf your laptop uses the Windows operating system, here are some touchpad gestures for you:

Clicking: Tap the touchpad.
Right-clicking: Tap the right touchpad button. (Usually, there are right and left buttons on the bottom of the touchpad. These two buttons are separated by a vertical dividing line.)
Clicking and dragging: Press the left touchpad button and drag your finger on the touchpad to drag the document.
Scrolling: Place two fingers on the touchpad and slide it horizontally or vertically.
Of course, you can also right click with keys. Here is the guide:
Click Start.
Type Mouse Keys.
Click on Turn Mouse Keys on or Off. Then, you can move the cursor around using the numerical keypad buttons. Now, '/', '*' and '-' act as the mouse buttons. With '-' acting as the right mouse button.
Apart from the above methods, you can also right click on the laptop by pressing a key like the following picture:
Or, you can try pressing 'Shift + F10' to give a right click.
How to Right Click on a MacMac laptops don't have a right-click button on the trackpad, but there are other approaches you can use. Here are two ways for you:
Hold down the 'Control' key while clicking the trackpad.
Click with two fingers rather than one to right-click or hold two fingers down on the trackpad and click with your thumb.
MacOS also has the mouse key feature. You can activate it through the following steps:
Click the Apple menu button.
Choose System Preferences.
Choose Accessibility.
Now click Pointer Control.
Click Alternative Control Methods.
Activate Mouse Keys.
You can also activate this feature quickly and easily by using Option-Command-F5. After activating the mouse key, you can press 'Control + I/5' to perform a right-clicking.
How to Right Click on ChromebookChromebooks also come with a touchpad. With the touchpad, you can perform various operations, just like the follows:
Clicking: Click or tap the bottom half of the touchpad.
Right-clicking: Click or tap the touchpad with two fingers.
Scrolling: Place two fingers on the touchpad, move your finger up or down to scroll vertically, or move your finger left or right to scroll horizontally
Dragging and dropping: Tap and hold the item you want to move with one finger, then drag the item to a new location, and finally release your finger.
For the first 20 years or so of its life, the Mac was infamous for having only a single button on its mouse. That meant there was no way to right-click on a Mac mouse. However, you could achieve the same thing by pressing the Control key and clicking with the mouse button. The Control-click was the Mac right-click. On websites and applications that supported right-click, Control-clicking still achieves the same thing on Mac as right-clicking does on a PC mouse.
Fast forward several years and Apple mice still don't have a right button, in fact they don't have any buttons at all. And neither do the trackpads on the MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. Now, however, macOS has support for right-clicking, or secondary clicking, as Apple calls it. And so if you buy a third party mouse with a right button, you'll be able to use it to, for example, pull up a contextual menu.
How to right click on a MacBook Apple calls the function most people understand as a ‘right click' a ‘secondary click.' That's because there are a number of options for performing the action. However, it amounts to the same thing. To set up the secondary click on a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro, do the following:
Go to the Apple menu and select System Preferences. 
Click on the Trackpad pane. 
Choose the Point & Click tab.
Check the box next to secondary click.
Click on the little down arrow.
Choose Click with two fingers; Click in bottom right corner; or Click in bottom left corner. 
If you prefer tapping to clicking on the Trackpad, check the box labelled Tap to click. You'll notice that in the Secondary click options, ‘Click with two fingers' has changed to ‘Click or tap with two fingers.' 
While you're in the Trackpad pane, you can also configure the Tracking Speed of the pointer, that is how quickly the pointer moves across the screen as you move your finger on the trackpad. Just move the slide right to make it go faster or left to make it go slower. 
You can also configure the gestures for scrolling and zooming, as well as gestures for other features such as Mission Control, App Exposé, and Notification Center. 
You might find that after you've configured the secondary click, the option you've chosen doesn't suit you — you might invoke it accidentally, or it might be uncomfortable to use. If so, just go back to System Preferences and choose another option.
How to right click on a Mac mouse 

How to use right mouse button on mac computer

Clicking: Tap the touchpad.
Right-clicking: Tap the right touchpad button. (Usually, there are right and left buttons on the bottom of the touchpad. These two buttons are separated by a vertical dividing line.)
Clicking and dragging: Press the left touchpad button and drag your finger on the touchpad to drag the document.
Scrolling: Place two fingers on the touchpad and slide it horizontally or vertically.
Of course, you can also right click with keys. Here is the guide:
Click Start.
Type Mouse Keys.
Click on Turn Mouse Keys on or Off. Then, you can move the cursor around using the numerical keypad buttons. Now, '/', '*' and '-' act as the mouse buttons. With '-' acting as the right mouse button.
Apart from the above methods, you can also right click on the laptop by pressing a key like the following picture:
Or, you can try pressing 'Shift + F10' to give a right click.
How to Right Click on a MacMac laptops don't have a right-click button on the trackpad, but there are other approaches you can use. Here are two ways for you:
Hold down the 'Control' key while clicking the trackpad.
Click with two fingers rather than one to right-click or hold two fingers down on the trackpad and click with your thumb.
MacOS also has the mouse key feature. You can activate it through the following steps:
Click the Apple menu button.
Choose System Preferences.
Choose Accessibility.
Now click Pointer Control.
Click Alternative Control Methods.
Activate Mouse Keys.
You can also activate this feature quickly and easily by using Option-Command-F5. After activating the mouse key, you can press 'Control + I/5' to perform a right-clicking.
How to Right Click on ChromebookChromebooks also come with a touchpad. With the touchpad, you can perform various operations, just like the follows:
Clicking: Click or tap the bottom half of the touchpad.
Right-clicking: Click or tap the touchpad with two fingers.
Scrolling: Place two fingers on the touchpad, move your finger up or down to scroll vertically, or move your finger left or right to scroll horizontally
Dragging and dropping: Tap and hold the item you want to move with one finger, then drag the item to a new location, and finally release your finger.
For the first 20 years or so of its life, the Mac was infamous for having only a single button on its mouse. That meant there was no way to right-click on a Mac mouse. However, you could achieve the same thing by pressing the Control key and clicking with the mouse button. The Control-click was the Mac right-click. On websites and applications that supported right-click, Control-clicking still achieves the same thing on Mac as right-clicking does on a PC mouse.
Fast forward several years and Apple mice still don't have a right button, in fact they don't have any buttons at all. And neither do the trackpads on the MacBook, MacBook Air or MacBook Pro. Now, however, macOS has support for right-clicking, or secondary clicking, as Apple calls it. And so if you buy a third party mouse with a right button, you'll be able to use it to, for example, pull up a contextual menu.
How to right click on a MacBook Apple calls the function most people understand as a ‘right click' a ‘secondary click.' That's because there are a number of options for performing the action. However, it amounts to the same thing. To set up the secondary click on a MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro, do the following:
Go to the Apple menu and select System Preferences. 
Click on the Trackpad pane. 
Choose the Point & Click tab.
Check the box next to secondary click.
Click on the little down arrow.
Choose Click with two fingers; Click in bottom right corner; or Click in bottom left corner. 
If you prefer tapping to clicking on the Trackpad, check the box labelled Tap to click. You'll notice that in the Secondary click options, ‘Click with two fingers' has changed to ‘Click or tap with two fingers.' 
While you're in the Trackpad pane, you can also configure the Tracking Speed of the pointer, that is how quickly the pointer moves across the screen as you move your finger on the trackpad. Just move the slide right to make it go faster or left to make it go slower. 
You can also configure the gestures for scrolling and zooming, as well as gestures for other features such as Mission Control, App Exposé, and Notification Center. 
You might find that after you've configured the secondary click, the option you've chosen doesn't suit you — you might invoke it accidentally, or it might be uncomfortable to use. If so, just go back to System Preferences and choose another option.
How to right click on a Mac mouse Apple's Magic Mouse may not have a visible right button, but underneath that sleek white shell, it can differentiate between a left click and a right click, in the same was as the trackpad on a MacBook. Here's how to configure the right, or secondary, click on a Mac mouse.
Launch System Preferences from the Apple menu or by clicking it in the Dock. 
Click on the Mouse pane. 
Click on the Point & Click tab. 
Check the box next to Secondary click. 
Choose ‘Click on the right side' to enable right-click on a Mac mouse. 
Note: If you have an Apple mouse, you can have the left side as the secondary click and the right side as the regular click. To enable that, just select ‘Click on the left side' instead. 
While you're in the Point & Click tab, you can use the slider to adjust the tracking speed of the mouse.
How to change the speed of double-clicking your mouseHow To Use Right Mouse Button On Macbook ProFor most of us, the default speed for double-clicking a mouse button works just fine. But for some users, with different requirements, an adjustment may be needed. You can change the length of time macOS waits for a second click in order to register a double-click, which is useful if you have difficulty moving your fingers quickly.
To adjust the double-click speed, do the following:
Launch System Preferences and click the Accessibility pane.
Click Mouse & Trackpad in the left hand sidebar.
Drag the slider next to ‘Double-click speed' to the left to make macOS wait longer for the second click. 
While you're in that pane, you can also change the delay that occurs when you drag a file over a folder and wait for it to spring open automatically. If you find that if you drag files over folders and the folders spring open unintentionally, you can slow down the spring load speed. Or if you find you have to wait too long when you want a folder to open, you can do the opposite. Drag the slider next to ‘Spring-loading delay' to the left to make the folder open quickly, or to the right for a longer delay.
Pro tip: The Mac right-click function is managed using the Trackpad, Mouse, and Accessibility System Preferences panes. These are all standard macOS System Preferences. However, third party apps and plug-ins also install their own panes sometimes. Mostly, that's fine — it's the way you control the app or plug-in. But sometimes it can cause a problem, such as when Flash gets out of date. 
In cases like that, you can use CleanMyMac X's Extensions utility to safely uninstall it. Just click on the Extensions utility, choose Preferences panes, check the box next to the one you want to delete and click Remove. You can download CleanMyMac for free here.
Disable Right Button On MouseAs you can see, it's very easy to right click on a Mac and to configure how the click works using System Preferences. And it works the same way for the Trackpad, too. Both are configured from their own panes in System Preferences. And additional options can be found in System Preferences' Accessibility pane.
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