Secondary click WITHOUT the mouse, ONLY using the keyboard

I navigate always my iMac using only keyboard shortcuts. Can I select a recently typed Text do I have to select in with my mouse and click on it to achieve the result of, let's say 'translating it'?


But when I want to save an image, I have to:

1. move my arm to the right → 2. grab the mouse → 3. move the cursor onto the image → 4. secondary click → 5. choose 'Save in photos' → 6. click on it → 7. click somewhere else in Safari because Safari is no longer in the front after the 'Save in photos'

→ That's a total of 7 individual steps to the final result. Sure, that sounds maybe picky and overbearing, but let's do the maths:

  • I need a total of 10 seconds for all 7 steps
  • lets say, I save 50 individual images in one hour
  • if I work on a day with my iMac for 3 hours, I've already saved about 150 images

Result:

1,500 seconds are 25 minutes!


So, this means I spend 25 minutes a day just to achieve the saving a photo process?

Is there perhaps a way to save the currently visible image in photos 'using only the keyboard'? I know that this doesn't work with images that are somewhere on the website with text and such; but on a single page that contains only one image, saving it instantly using a shortcut would save me 25 minutes of lost life time...

(because 25 minutes per day in a week are 3 hours... in a year 2 days!! Let's say I'll live 50 years...)


Long story short: Is there a keyboard shortcut to achieve my desired result?


Thank's for your time reading my novel-like question...


Greetings

iNapolephone


P.S.:

Sorry, but after a near-death experience, I don't want to waste unnecessary time...!

iMac 27″

Posted on Apr 6, 2025 7:19 AM

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Apr 6, 2025 9:28 AM in response to iNapolephone

If you have a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keyboard (USB-C), you can use the Contextual Menu key  (located below the F13 key) to open a shortcut menu with your keyboard.


See Right-click on Mac - Apple Support. I’m sure you can use software like Karabiner Elements to remap the key into another part of your keyboard if you have an older keyboard.

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Apr 12, 2025 2:30 PM in response to MrHoffman

Finally! So it is POSSIBLE! I am grateful from the bottom of my heart for your help showing me an actual suitable solution to my, unfortunately now a꙰ n꙰ c꙰ i꙰ e꙰ n꙰ t꙰ dilemma.


P.S.:


Sorry for this inappropriate situation, "to do something extraordinary..." - But it's not meant that way → Unfortunately, there is no other way to artistically illustrate the historical age of my iMac as ancient in the officially known way!


My job has nothing to do with art. As a hobby, however, I manipulate digitally created images using my iMac. So, in my own way, it was a kind of necessity to show you how I imagine this "ancient" age in relation to my iMac in a metaphorical sense:


It is for this reason that the letters "a n c i e n t" are in this manipulation, but due to the graphical displacement, each individual letter no longer fits into its shape...so→My iMac is on my desk, but it doesn't really fit in TODAY's time of its software version.


P.P.S.

Sorry again! 😅 I know, this inspiration crap is a habit of mine!

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Secondary click WITHOUT the mouse, ONLY using the keyboard

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