@BruceMagnus: The right-click mouse button works fine for me. :)

A3sthetix

I love the 2-fingered click on the macbooks-- it was there in 10.4 as well.

I thought everyone knew about that?

geekgrrl77

where's the trick to middle-click using your macbook trackpad in OS X?

oh wait....that's in Linux.

twins8791

That exact trick is probably one of the greatest little improvements to laptop use. As soon as I saw that option on my first day of looking around I was thrilled and felt my upgrade to Leopard was worth it. Strange how it's the little things that mean so much.

Insomnic

Is there anything like this for Linux or Windows?

BruceMagnus

Am I the only one who didn't know that command click is the middle click?

lextel

Not free, but worth every cent of the small registration fee: SideTrack, which lets you do things with your unadorned trackpad you never realized you could do.

infmom

Two finger scrolling is AWESOME. Every notebook comp needs that. Those scroll areas on track pads are just dumb by comparison.

Also, I think it's worth noting that no Mac lacks a secondary mouse button, because Macs are computers (not mice) and do support a secondary click, and the mighty mouse has had a second button for years. How about changing it to "Your Mac Laptop's" because the article IS about laptops.

You can also make it so a two finger tap = a right-click.

@lextel: Evidently not because your commend is the first time I've heard it! Thanks :D

Quine

It's surprising how many people don't know about it. This and two fingered scrolling are absolute godsends.

Teira

How is this new.. I have been using it for months? i also thought everyone knew about it

Mostro

The two finger is my second favorite way of right clicking - here are other ways: [leopardtips.blogspot.com]

Kevin100

Nota bene: This only works on Intel 'books, at least I've never seen the setting on older iBooks or PowerBooks, even the ones that do have 2-fingered scrolling.

torstie

@Insomnic: This works in Tiger too.

onemoreday

I also love this feature, both the right clicking and 360-scrolling.

I've completely eliminated having to carry a mouse (which is very anti-mobile, having to carry a mouse, a dongle and your laptop) with this.

Just another reason the Macs rule. Did you know that it was in fact a Mac that started the Freemasons? It's true, look it up. I think it was a iBook....

clicknathan

@BruceMagnus: In Linux using the synaptics driver you can do a single-finger tap for click, double-finger for middle click, and triple-finger for right click. On my laptop at least...

sonikblue

@torstie: They added it to Leopard so now the PowerBooks/iBooks (with 2 finger scrolling) notebooks have it too. I know because I jumped for joy when I saw it.

WorkingOnYourInvoice

@torstie yes- this is correct. PPC chip machines can't do this. What's interesting to me, is I believe it's the same track-pad, so it must be the devs who didn't want to add the software to the PPC driver, I can't possibly figure out why it wasn't implemented other than planned obselesence of the earlier models.

Debian on Intel MacBook- the Debian kernel on the macbook does an amazing job of everything "just works"... they actually have three-button abilities on the track pad as well as two-finger scroll. Tap with 1-finger, left button, 2-, middle button, 3-,right button. Very very nice.

a11en

This also comes in handy when using remote access applications (i.e Remote Desktop) where the normal Ctrl click does not work.

wiz8

I do not like the right-click from the trackpad. I love the two-finger scrolling, and I seem to always have two fingers resting on the trackpad, ready to scroll. This tip makes me right-click when I don't want to. I've gotten used to the ctrl-click.

Brendan Ross

I have a PowerPC G4 PowerBook and two finger scrolling and clicking work just fine for me. As WORKINGONYOURINVOICE states - Leopard made it available for non-intel laptops to do the two finger clicking but Intel chips could do it since Tiger.

Insomnic

@Insomnic: I don't seem to be able to enable this on my iBook (even with 10.5.1)... must be a PB feature.

armeck

It's not that PPC's can't do it, Apple just didn't implement it for Tiger on PPC.

cde

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That is Leopard, on a iBook G4... what am I doing wrong or is it not possible on the G4 ibooks?

armeck

@cde: Ok, so why do I not have the option on my iBook, even though I have run Tiger and now Leopard? Maybe I am not looking in the right place, but I am pretty sure I am...

armeck

@Quine: "Also, I think it's worth noting that no Mac lacks a secondary mouse button, because Macs are computers (not mice) and do support a secondary click, and the mighty mouse has had a second button for years. How about changing it to "Your Mac Laptop's" because the article IS about laptops."

If barely two is "years", then yes, you're right.
Be honest; Apple's lack of enthusiasm for right-click (to put it mildly) is legendary.

Mysterius

Great tip! I too didn't know about it.
As others have noted, it works on my Macbook but not on my iBook. (both 10.4)

mparas