You see under Secondary Click here you can choose between one of three ways to generate it just using trackpad.
#What is a right click in mac mac
Let's start with trackpad if you are using that on a Mac Book. So let's look in System Preferences and under Hardware you can see both mouse and trackpad. There are a variety of ways to cause the secondary click. It is the way that a lot of people, including myself, prefer to generate the secondary click. Not the command key but the control key down on your keyboard and click with the one button. Then the only way to do a secondary click was to hold the control key down. So secondary clicks weren't the usual thing. There was a period where Mac mice only had one button. Now many Mac users may be used to only having one Mac button, especially if you have been using Macs for a long time. Basically when you are using your pointing device, whether it is a trackpad or a mouse, you have your primary click and your secondary click, also known as left and right mouse button clicks back in the days when mice had distinctive buttons and one was on the left and one was on the right. So what is a secondary click? Well a secondary click you may know by a different name like right click or control click. On today's episode let's take a look at secondary clicks. Video Transcript: Hi this is Gary with MacMost Now. Check out MacMost Now 842: Using the Secondary Click at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.