Magic Mouse right click.
- Thread starter Whitehill
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Nope. It reacts to the softest touch, usually. The only thing to keep in mind is that it only works if you _only_ have the right finger down. If the left one's still on the mouse, it won't recognize the right click properly. Not sure why, though. "Multitouch" would suggest the mouse's a bit more clever than that.
Whitehill
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I'm trying. Two fingers down, left finger up, right finger up and down to click - nothing - unless the down is really forceful. I installed MagicPrefs and set touch sensitivity to "extreme" - no change. Also, lower on the surface, toward the Apple logo, I can't get a click at all.
For the right click, here's a way that seems to work without too much force: two fingers down and click, both fingers up, right down and click. That's not what the instructions say.
For the right click, here's a way that seems to work without too much force: two fingers down and click, both fingers up, right down and click. That's not what the instructions say.
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DeltaMac
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Disable your MagicPrefs - it's in the magicPrefs menu.
Open your System Prefs/Mouse pane
Change "Secondary click" to left.
That reverses right and left clicks.
Now, Left-click will show contextual menus, and right-click selects or double-clicks
Do you get the same response from the Magic Mouse?
Especially try the (now) right click to double-click on something. Is the right side still very difficult to get response?
As fryke suggested, the right-click will not work properly if you are inadvertently touching the mouse with any other finger or other part of your hand.
Be sure to change your secondary click back to "right". Gets really confusing (at least for me
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The MagicPrefs (and other utilities) will allow a lot of other adjustments to what your Magic Mouse can do. You can see there's several zones on the top surface of the mouse that can be used for other purposes, or just turned off (which can leave you with 'dead' zones - the area around the Apple symbol is one of those)
Take some time to see what changes you can make with MagicPrefs. The interesting one is where you can move the cursor directly from the surface of the Magic Mouse (without moving the mouse at all, eh?)
Open your System Prefs/Mouse pane
Change "Secondary click" to left.
That reverses right and left clicks.
Now, Left-click will show contextual menus, and right-click selects or double-clicks
Do you get the same response from the Magic Mouse?
Especially try the (now) right click to double-click on something. Is the right side still very difficult to get response?
As fryke suggested, the right-click will not work properly if you are inadvertently touching the mouse with any other finger or other part of your hand.
Be sure to change your secondary click back to "right". Gets really confusing (at least for me
)The MagicPrefs (and other utilities) will allow a lot of other adjustments to what your Magic Mouse can do. You can see there's several zones on the top surface of the mouse that can be used for other purposes, or just turned off (which can leave you with 'dead' zones - the area around the Apple symbol is one of those)
Take some time to see what changes you can make with MagicPrefs. The interesting one is where you can move the cursor directly from the surface of the Magic Mouse (without moving the mouse at all, eh?)
DeltaMac
Tech
Sounds like your mouse is OK, then.
Might be some other mouse driver software that you could have previously installed (USB OverDrive/Steermouse, etc)? - or maybe it's still your technique
If you log in as a different user (make a fresh user account just for this purpose), do you still have the same difficulty?
Do you know anyone else with a Magic Mouse that you can try? or are you reasonably close to an Apple store, so you could test a different mouse - or even take yours in to check if it works the same on a different Mac?
Might be some other mouse driver software that you could have previously installed (USB OverDrive/Steermouse, etc)? - or maybe it's still your technique
If you log in as a different user (make a fresh user account just for this purpose), do you still have the same difficulty?
Do you know anyone else with a Magic Mouse that you can try? or are you reasonably close to an Apple store, so you could test a different mouse - or even take yours in to check if it works the same on a different Mac?
Whitehill
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When I got tired of trying to clean the wired mouse that came with my iMac, I replaced it with a GigaWare, but did not install any software.
I've heard that before, but not recently.- or maybe it's still your technique
I'll try that ASAP.
No and no. I called Apple a little while ago and, without grilling me much, they offered to ship another - they didn't even want this one back. I told them I would call tomorrow.