How do i right click on my mac?

I assume your not using a mouse. To right click with the trackpad use the ctrl key and the trackpad button together.

You can also, in System Preferences>keyboard and mouse >trackpad, check the box that says Tap trackpad using 2 fingers for secondary click. Then a tap on the trackpad with 2 fingers at once will give you an easy right-click.

A two-button USB mouse, pretty much regardless of brand, will be recognized and the seconds button will be supported as you've come to expect from using Windows. I use a Microsoft wireless notebook mouse with my MacBook. It just works; no drivers required. The scroll wheel also works as you'd expect, which is a welcome feature.

Bill

impulse_telecom wrote:
A two-button USB mouse, pretty much regardless of brand, will be recognized and the seconds button will be supported as you've come to expect from using Windows. I use a Microsoft wireless notebook mouse with my MacBook. It just works; no drivers required. The scroll wheel also works as you'd expect, which is a welcome feature.

I had the same thing with every USB mouse I've tried from Logitech and Targus. Right button works immediately like a right click in Windows. Even then, I could get the right click function with the left button by holding down "control" as I clicked the left button.

However - I just got a Wireless Mighty Mouse. I couldn't figure out why it couldn't right click. Turns out the default setting was that both the left and right buttons served as the "primary button". I just went to System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse, and modified it via the drop down menus so that the right button was the "secondary button".

Maybe the USB Mighty Mouse has the same default setting (similar to a one-button Apple Pro Mouse)?

The original poster didn't mention the particular mouse being used.

First Magus wrote:
I assume your not using a mouse. To right click with the trackpad use the ctrl key and the trackpad button together.

I just noticed the sig mentions a Dell machine. I know this is the MacBook forum, but I can't tell if this is an Apple mouse being used on a PC, a generic USB mouse being used on a Mac, or an Apple mouse (probably a Mighty Mouse) being used on a Mac.

Most of the advice seemed to indicate a generic USB mouse on an Mac.

y pw wrote:
I just noticed the sig mentions a Dell machine. I know this is the MacBook forum, but I can't tell if this is an Apple mouse being used on a PC, a generic USB mouse being used on a Mac, or an Apple mouse (probably a Mighty Mouse) being used on a Mac.

I saw the signature also. I was going by the title *How do I right on my mac?* and since this is a MacBook forum assumed the OP was trying to right click with a trackpad.

Hopefully the OP can figure it out with all the advice given:->