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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I’m not sure I understand your complaint – if you two-finger tap anywhere on an Apple trackpad made since around 2009, it’s interpreted as a right-click.

Reply to edit: “I forgot that I changed it to make it worse and I’m mad at Apple about it” is maybe the most Lemmy comment I’ve ever read

[–] leave_it_blank 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not an Apple user, and curious: If you double click a movie file it does not open it but gives you the menu? How do you open it? Triple click? Or one click? If one, how do you just mark it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Clicking once with 2 fingers on the pad is what they meant

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anything you do while touching the trackpad with one finger at a time is the same as though you were using a mouse. Tap once to select, tap and drag to move, double tap to open.

If you tap with two fingers on the pad at the same time, it reacts as if you’ve right-clicked. I usually use my index and middle finger.

[–] leave_it_blank 1 points 5 months ago

Interesting, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's easy to miss since Apple removed the super helpful tutorial shorts in the touchpad settings. The new menu is less clear imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah, I changed it so long ago I forgot that's the default. Changed it to bottom right corner in the settings when I first got it since I am used to windows laptops, but the area for the bottom right corner that apple designates is very small.