Secondary click options missing in Lion

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Secondary click options missing in Lion

Hey there. I recently installed OSX Lion, only to find out some options for Secondary Click was missing..

In Snow Leopard I had both "Click or tab with two fingers" and "Click in bottom right corner" enabled at the same time.

But after installing Lion, I can see that it is only possible to select one of the options from the drop-down.

I talked to one of my friends, who did an upgrade instead of a clean install (Like I did), and his trackpad preferences were preserved, with both right-click methods working at the same time. But as soon as he changed it from the drop-down list, he got the exact same problem as me.

If possible, could you guide me to a .plist or something where I could possibly change this manually?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Jul 26, 2011 3:19 PM

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Jul 26, 2011 3:22 PM in response to Adam Honoré

At this time, I do not believe there is a fix for your issue. However, I urge you to visit http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html to request this feature.

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Adam Honoré Author

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Jul 26, 2011 3:27 PM in response to applefandan

Well.. There is a solution. As it works if you just upgrade the OS, and don't do a fresh install.

I just need to locate the preference file, and get someone to upload theirs.

I've been looking through the ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist files, but no luck so far.

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larslyd

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Jul 26, 2011 4:22 PM in response to Adam Honoré

Hi.

Try go to "system pref" and then "trackpad" there you can select to enable right mouse click.

/ lars

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Adam Honoré Author

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Jul 26, 2011 4:26 PM in response to larslyd

Please read my question again, I think you misunderstand it.

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larslyd

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Jul 26, 2011 4:29 PM in response to Adam Honoré

ok sorry

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Answer 6

Jul 26, 2011 11:03 PM in response to Adam Honoré

I also have this problem, It is quite annoying.

It worked well before I touched the setting, guess it stored it from my SL Install.

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Jul 26, 2011 11:20 PM in response to Sir Allan

I think I found the file we need:

com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist

When I get home I will find a Time Machine version of this file and check what needs to be done!

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Adam Honoré Author

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Jul 27, 2011 9:37 AM in response to Sir Allan

Already tried it, didn't work.

Kinda makes sense, as it is only for bluetooth trackpad, not the built-in one..

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Jul 27, 2011 2:05 PM in response to Adam Honoré

But it gets updated when I change my settings, got to find the real file then.

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DJ Art

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Jul 28, 2011 6:46 AM in response to Sir Allan

That is the real actual file you're looking for, I think. It just doesn't work this way (by editing) or perhaps it needs a log out/in after editing it (haven't tried that though).

BUT, I've found a similar thread: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3189974

So, using the System Preferences GUI, firstly set Trackpad Secondary click for the bottom right corner, then using Terminal run the following command:

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

Then log out and back in and voila!

(now if you check that file in ~/Library/Preferences, it got updated as we want it to).

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Jul 28, 2011 11:09 PM in response to DJ Art

That worked! :-)

Thanks, I did logout when I edited the file bt did not seem to work at all :-(

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