Secondary click in Lion, Macbook Pro 4,1

Strangely enough, it doesn't work on my mid-2008 15" MacBook Pro. I did 7-pass erase before installing Lion clean (and legal, through the Mac App Store), but it doesn't work on any account. I've tried inserting the command Maxym mentioned several times, making sure that the option "Secondary Click" was switched off in Preferences. Does anybody have an idea on how to fix this?

Update on my last post:

I tried using my roommate's Magic Trackpad, to no avail. In a moment of utter frustration I checked the "Tap to click" box, above the Secondary Click option. And what do you know? I can use secondary click on my regular trackpad again. I hate the "Tap to click" option since it causes me to unnecessarily click a lot of stuf, but it'll have to do until a decent patch is out.

For now, it's working!

Thank you so much! It worked for me too!

I've just upgraded to Lion. I had Snow Leopard configued so that a two-finger tap (ie right click) opened Spaces. In Lion, a two-finger tap now opens Mission Control. Since I can now open Mission Control with a four-finger swipe, I want to restore a two-finger tap to its normal function (ie bringing up contextual menus). It seems, however, that Lion has remembered the setting from Snow Leopard, but I can't now see any way in Lion's Mission Control or Trackpad/Mouse System Preferences to get Lion to forget about this. I appreciate that this is a slightly different question from the one originally posted on this thread, but I wonder if anyone can help?

Fantastic. Works perfectly!

YESSSSSS. That worked sweet like a peach!!!

Warm thanks Maxym for fixing this, it worked so well on my MacBook Air Late 2008. Thanks God, I was going crazy...

Reading all the previous posts, I'm wondering if this problem happens when you had configured a Magic Trackpad sometime in the past prior to upgrading to Lion.

I still have one more issue with Lion gestures on my MBA trackpad, this is the Search gesture (double tap with 3 fingers) which doesn't work.

Maxym, if you read me, would you be so king to tell me the correct Terminal command to do it?

Thanks again for your help.

Thiebaud

I don't even know what a Magic Trackpad is, yet I still had the issue, so I don't think the Magic Trackpad had anything to do with it.

As far as the three finger lookup, be aware that it does not work on every program. For example, the three finger lookup on Google Chrome does not work, yet it does work on Safari. Since I know Chrome hasn't been updated for Lion yet, I would imagin that the three finger lookup function is something that has to be enabled by the software developer. So far the ONLY software it has worked on for me is Apple software that was shipped with Lion.

In the Trackpad System Preferences Point & Click pane, under Secondary click there is a selection where you can choose "Click or tap with two fingers."

could you explain exactly how to do this precedure.. sorry , but just dont grasp how to do it.

1. Go into the Trackpad options in System Preferences and un-select Secondary Click (if it is selected, if not continue to step 2).

2. Open up Terminal from the /Applications/Utilities folder.

3. Terminal will open up (white window with black text). Type in the following:

defaults -currentHost write -g com.apple.trackpad.enableSecondaryClick -bool YES

4. Close Terminal, and log off (or restart the computer). Then log back in. The right click should be working now.

That is as simple as I can think to make it. The only step that might be confusing is getting to Terminal in the first place, but if you own a Mac you should AT LEAST know how to use Finder. Let me know if you are still confused.

my system must be different, i have a macbook air mid 2009

Woops!!! I found the right folder and did exactly as you said and now it works. THANKS...

Changing the defaults from a terminal doesn't work for me on a 15-inch Early 2008 MBP.

Enabling 'Tap to click' (suggested above) does make the secondary click work.

Here's how I fixed it...

I had same problem on MacBook and MacPro. Not just dedktop backgrounds but all preferences.

Lion worked fine for a day then I was changing the sharing prefernce and that seemed to trigger the bug.

As I ran different software some preference seemed to change but then after restart were gone...with Adobe product I couldn't save projects because for some reason every time you save a project it alters the preferences file which was locked. I tried changing permissions for the entire preferences folder and that didnt work...So every time I needed to savea project I had to delete the relevant preference file and then save. Needless to say it didn't take long before I was banging my head off a wall because that was less damaging to my being.

I was just about to give up when I tried changing the permission for the entire users folder and it was all plain sailing from there...

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