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Q: Secondary click in Lion, Macbook Pro 4,1

I have an early 2008 macbook pro (Macbook Pro 4,1).

 

In Lion, the only way to right-click is using ctrl+click. If I select "Secondary click" in System Preferences/Trackpad, it gets automatically un-selected when I exit System Preferences. This is very frustrating. Any idea how to fix it?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7), MBP4,1

Posted on Jul 20, 2011 11:07 AM

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  • by olignome,

    olignome olignome Jul 20, 2011 11:21 AM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 11:21 AM in response to marianmi

    You can try to check your system prefrences but it may just be a bug and should be fixed in the next week.

  • by timotay89,

    timotay89 timotay89 Jul 20, 2011 11:34 AM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 11:34 AM in response to marianmi

    I've got the same computer and the same problem.  I hope it's a bug and fixed soon.  I've had lion for an hour and it's already driving me up a wall.

     

    I've also noticed that if you go to trackpad preferences -> Point and Click and just put the mouse over the option for the secondary click, the demonstraition video doesn't change.  If you had the mouse over the tap to click, the video stays as that and if you had the mouse over the "Look up" option, the video stays as that. 

  • by timotay89,

    timotay89 timotay89 Jul 20, 2011 11:36 AM in response to timotay89
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    Jul 20, 2011 11:36 AM in response to timotay89

    I also noticed that is doesn't let you keep the selection for the secondary click.  If you allow that and close system preferences (not just go back to "show all") and then open systems preferences and look at the secondary click option, it's unchecked. 

     

    There's no way to make it stay checked.

  • by marianmi,

    marianmi marianmi Jul 20, 2011 11:52 AM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 11:52 AM in response to marianmi

    This obviously seems like a bug, hopefully it will be fixed soon....

  • by Karl Santa,

    Karl Santa Karl Santa Jul 20, 2011 2:47 PM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 2:47 PM in response to marianmi

    I have the same laptop and the exact same symptoms, so yeah I would say this is a bug.  Hopefully with enough people complaining somebody at Apple will fix it soon.

  • by Ragnar-Kon,

    Ragnar-Kon Ragnar-Kon Jul 20, 2011 4:01 PM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 4:01 PM in response to marianmi

    Add my name to the list. This happens with ALL 15" Macbook Pros 4,1.
    The 17" Macbook Pro 4,1 is immune, and the 13" Macbook Pro didn't exist at the time.

     

    I work for a University, thus we got Lion early for testing purposes. It was obvious on July 1st that this was an issue, and so we posted on the developer forums about it. Got several replies from other developers with the same laptops that have the same issue, but no official response from Apple.

     

    Bought Lion for my personal laptop today (which happens to also be a 15" MBP 4,1), and the issue still exists.

     

    So, I should think Apple is aware of it by now. Hopefully it is fixed in the first round of bug fixes.

  • by Mr.Amjad,

    Mr.Amjad Mr.Amjad Jul 20, 2011 4:16 PM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 4:16 PM in response to marianmi

    I'm having the same issue. I guess it's a bug and hopefully Apple will fix it soon.

  • by Rex2000,

    Rex2000 Rex2000 Jul 20, 2011 4:31 PM in response to Ragnar-Kon
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    Jul 20, 2011 4:31 PM in response to Ragnar-Kon

    I'm afraid I have a 17" and secondary click doesn't work either.... (early 2008)

  • by stefan23494,

    stefan23494 stefan23494 Jul 20, 2011 4:51 PM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 4:51 PM in response to marianmi

    I've got a 2008 MacBook Air... the secondary click also un-selects for me.. as @marianmi said, I hope they can fix this bug ASAP!..

  • by laughablebutanebob,

    laughablebutanebob laughablebutanebob Jul 20, 2011 4:51 PM in response to timotay89
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    Jul 20, 2011 4:51 PM in response to timotay89

    Same here, I thought it was a clash with BetterTouch tool until I turned off BTT and noticed that the demo video wasn't playing in the pref pane.

  • by Justinjm,

    Justinjm Justinjm Jul 20, 2011 5:36 PM in response to timotay89
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    Jul 20, 2011 5:36 PM in response to timotay89

    Same problem here. Macbook pro early 2008 version. I hope there will be a fix soon!

  • by Ragnar-Kon,

    Ragnar-Kon Ragnar-Kon Jul 20, 2011 5:59 PM in response to laughablebutanebob
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    Jul 20, 2011 5:59 PM in response to laughablebutanebob

    Strange. On all nine Macbook Pro 4,1 15" laptops the secondary click wasn't working. But on the two 17" MBP 4,1 laptops, the right click was working, but here people are saying they are having the issue with the 17" and the Air version as well.

     

    Perhaps I am mistaken and the 17" MBPs are the 5,1 MBPs and not 4,1. I know they were bought in 2008, but I can't remember if we got the 17" MBPs at the same time or after the 15" MBPs. I'll check tomorrow.

  • by Clayton C. Johanson,

    Clayton C. Johanson Clayton C. Johanson Jul 20, 2011 7:23 PM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 7:23 PM in response to marianmi

    Same thing is happening here, on an original (early 2008) MacBook Air. Secondary Click won't stay turned on and the video does not change when I click on Secondary Click.

     

    This needs to be fixed, pronto.

  • by Chogidog,

    Chogidog Chogidog Jul 20, 2011 8:02 PM in response to marianmi
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    Jul 20, 2011 8:02 PM in response to marianmi

    Same laptop, macbookpro 4,1 early 2008  and I had the same problem on the GM. I couldnt take it and deleted lion and reinstalled SL.

    Looks like I'm holding off until this bug is fixed.

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