Right-click not working on trackpad

I had this same problem but i found a solution on another forum! v v v v

Ok so, this might sound completely irrelevant, but try turning off your bluetooth. It worked for me and everything was normal after that. I don't even have a bluetooth mouse or anything connected to apple that it might have connected with, but this totally worked and i'm so happy! I thought i would share it, even though this is an old thread! Best of luck!

This happened to me, too. I went to the Apple icon in the top left corner, and chose "Preferences". Then I went to Track Pad. There's a video playing but I didn't watch it (because I'd seen it before). On the left, the check mark beside "secondary click" was gone under the "two finger" menu. So I turned it back on. I think it happened when I got a software update, not sure.

Let me bump this thread.

My MBP recently failed to secondary click with two fingers on one hand BUT if I use one finger from the right hand and one finger from the left hand, it works fine.

Secondary click (click or tap with two fingers) is enabled.

What say you?

I know this thread is old but I had the same problem on my 13" Mid-2009 macbook pro. For some reason with the option to click bottom right corner of the trackpad and have it act as "secondary click" I checked and unchecked, restarted, looked for updates etc.

THEN i fixed it.

In apple menu>preferences>expose & spaces. Goto Expose Tab up top and make sure that "ALL WINDOWS:" says "F9" in the closest box. And mine DID say "secondary click" on the other option but i set it to "-" and now my right click works. Hope this helps you all 🙂 It worked for me...

I have a 3 month old MacBook Pro running on 10.6.7. Today, single tapping and the secondary two finger click stopped working. Tapping the track pad gently - no pressing - will not do anything (opening links, selcting files, opening folders etc.), and tapping it gently with two fingers will not do the secondary click either. However, if i actually *press* the trackpad, then it will. finger srcorlling, swiping, pinching and all that seems to work fine. only the "gentle tap" (no actual trackpad clicking) doesnt work anymore. I had to select press bottom corner to get the secondary click function for now

Any leads anyone?

System Preferences > Trackpad

Under the 1 Finger section mark the boxes that you want to have marked and to make sure that it's the right thing hover over it and it will show you an example video of what it does.

splizaat, thank you so much for your hint! i understand this is an older thread, but i've almost gone nuts over this secondary click thing -- just have my macbook for 5 months, and love it dearly, but i always used ctrl+click as i couldn't figure out why tapping/clicking with two fingers wouldn't work. today at 4am i snapped and decided to find a solution, no matter what. and after raiding the net and finally registering on here, i find your suggestion and it's EXACTLY THAT. i wasn't sure it would do it for me since meanwhile we have lion, but it's the very same thing. i was worried it might be a bug with my macbook at first, then realised some preferences must be contradicting without being able to find out which as i only tried trackpad constellations..

anyway, long story short: THANK YOU SO MUCH. you saved me so much trouble! and after my thorough research i have to say you seem to be the only person on the net who figured this out 🙂

(i just had to express my deepest gratitude in this absurdely long post, couldn't help it)

Hi, I really got nut on how to set the right click under boot camp environnent.

Dear Splizzat and laramae,

are you saying set in Expose - all secondary click or just some?

I can't get the same result as you say, would you mind to instruct me the step how to do it?

Thank very much

Cliff

Hi Cliff,

I'd love to help you out and wanted to upload snapshots of my preferences, but they're in German unfortunately and hence I realised it probably wouldn't help that much.

Anyway, I'm not familiar with boot camp, but these are my settings: In Mission Control i set all Mssion Control, programme windows, view desk and view dashboard to "-" (hope the labelling is somewhat accurate, I'm really not sure about the German-English conversion); and under Trackpad i set secondary click to "click or tap with two fingers". Note, I couldn't have "move with three fingers" activated, too, just as intelligent zoom - "double tip with two fingers".

I reckon this is total amateur talk I'm producing here, it's just what I figured out works for myself 🙂 If you need more information, I'd be happy to help!

Best wishes,

Lara

Hi Lara,

Thank you very much for your kind assistance.

I fixed it. For me, I am using bootcamp, what I needed to do is download Bootcamp 1.0 first (which is hard to find) and the trackpad will be fine after bootcamp installation.

Thanks again.

Cliff Kwok