There are actually a few ways to right click on a Mac: Press Control to right click. One way to right click on a Mac is to press the Ctrl (or Control) key when you tap the mouse button, or the. Change mouse tracking, double-click, and scrolling speed on Mac. On your Mac, choose Apple menu System Preferences, then click Mouse. Move the sliders to change any of the following: Tracking: Adjusts how fast the pointer moves when you drag the mouse. Double-Click: Adjusts how rapidly you must.
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On your OS X Mac, here's how to make a single click perform double duty
How To Double Click On Mac Mouse
April 9, 2006By Al Fasoldt
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Anyone using Windows XP can turn on a special mode that eliminates the need to double click to launch a program or open a folder, as you'll see in my weekly Technofile column at www.technofileonline.com/texts/tec040906.html. Can this be done just as easily in Mac OS X?
Yes and no. Here's the bad news first.
Mac OS X does not come with any built-in way to turn single clicks into double clicks the way Windows. (That would be a worthy addition to OS X, but I know of no plans for Apple to add it.)
But there are ways to get what you want. Here's the good news, in three parts.
1. Like Windows users, you can launch a program or open a folder -- as long as the item is already selected -- from the keyboard. Windows users do it by pressing the Enter key. Macintosh OS X users can do it by pressing Cmd-O. ('Cmd' is the abbreviation for 'Command.' The Cmd key is on each side of the spacebar on a standard Apple keyboard. It's sometimes called the Apple key.) Simply select an item, then, when it's selected, press Cmd-O.
2. You don't ever have to double click to launch an application or open a folder if its icon is in the Dock. The Dock always works by single clicks. To add an application or folder to the Dock, drag the original icon (in your Applications folder, for example) to the Dock and leave it there. (To remove it, drag it off the Dock.)
(For tips on using the Dock, read these previous articles: http://technofileonline.com/texts/mac011503.html and http://technofileonline.com/texts/mac122904.html.)
3. Even better news: You can graduate to a better mouse -- Microsoft's wireless IntelliMouse models are the ones I recommend -- and use its special mouse software. Microsoft's software makes this easy. My main OS X Mac uses a Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer 2.0, which comes with outstanding software for setting up the standard buttons and the extra buttons on the mouse. (It has two extra buttons where your thumb rests.)
The IntelliMouse software lets me assign a left double click to a single press of the wheel. Because the wheel rolls smoothly with a light touch, there's no danger of clicking the wheel when I'm using it to scroll. You have many other choices, too. If you don't have much use for the right button, you can assign a right click to a left double click, something I did for years before right-click context menus became as helpful as they are today.
(Right-clicking to do a standard double click is habit-forming. If you choose it for your OS X Mac, get context menus to open using Ctrl-Click.)
It's been two months since I've been using my new Macbook Pro, that came with the OS X Lion operating system, for my primary work.
I'm also running Windows 7 using Virtualbox and end up using both the platforms but most of my time is spent on the OS X Lion and I have to say that it's been a new and enriching experience.
But Mac OS X Lion, like any new version of a product, brought along its own annoyances.
One of the primary ones being the lack of click-and-drag feature. You know how you double-click on an icon or a piece of text and then hold and drag the second click to move that icon or text to new position? Right, it's the same on Windows, Linux and on OS X versions prior to Lion. Lion on the other hand replaced this gesture with a three-finger-click to drag, something which obviously annoyed the hell out of almost all users.
Luckily, the fix was available and it's an easy one. All it takes is the change of certain settings and that's what we'll talk about in this post today. Get overwatch on mac.
Steps to Enable Double Click and Drag Feature in Mac OS X Lion
So here are the steps for all you new OS X Lion users to get that old click-and-drag feature back.
Step 1: Go to the Apple menu and click on System Preferences.
Mac Only Double Clicks
Step 2: On the System Preferences page, click on the button that says Universal Access.
Step 3: You'll see some tabs at the top, namely Seeing, Hearing, Keyboard and Mouse & Trackpad. Click on Mouse & Trackpad. There, go to the bottom and click on the button that says Trackpad Options.
Step 4: This is the last step. Here you just need to ensure that the Dragging checkbox is checked and it says with Drag Lock beside it. That's it, click on Done once you are done.
How To Double Click On Macbook
That's about it. You should now see your old and favorite double-click or double-tap and drag feature working smoothly across the entire operating system. Hope that helps.
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