O’Reilly members experience live online training, plus books, videos, and digital content from 200+ publishers. Get Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mavericks Edition now with O’Reilly online learning. If your keyboard lacks a numeric keyboard. It works a lot more easily than it sounds like it would. Hold the Ctrl key on the keyboard and press the number 5 on the numeric keypad to execute a right-click action. Your job is to choose Secondary Button from the pop-up menu that identifies the right side of the mouse.įrom now on, even though there aren’t two visible mouse buttons, your mouse does, in fact, register a left-click or a right-click depending on which side of the mouse you push down. There, in all its splendor, is a diagram of the Mighty or Magic Mouse. Is it a cordless, flattened capsule instead? Then it’s the newer Magic Mouse. Take a look: Is it a white, shiny plastic capsule with a tiny, gray scrolling track-pea on the far end? Then you have a Mighty Mouse.
Recycle the one from your old PC, if you like.įurthermore, if you have a desktop Mac, then you already have a two-button mouse-but you might not realize it. “Ah, but that’s what’s always driven me nuts about Apple,” goes the common refrain,“their refusal to get rid of their stupid one-button mouse!”įirst of all, you can attach any old $6 USB two-button mouse to the Mac, and it’ll work flawlessly. That is, clicking something by pressing the right mouse button on a two-button mouse. Experienced computer fans have always preferred the one-handed method: right-clicking. That is, while pressing the Control key (bottom row), click the mouse on your target. You can open the shortcut menu of something on the Mac screen by Control-clicking it. But this one shows the three ways to get a “right-click.”Ĭontrol-click. Figure 1-3. The Trackpad pane of System Preferences looks different depending on your laptop model.
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