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You can right click on the Magic Mouse perfectly fine (just click on the right side), I don't get it why they couldn't do it?

by Geee 7y ago

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
This is disabled by default, you need to go into System Preferences to enable it. I work in an office where everyone has an iMac and a Magic Mouse, and this is a common annoyance when coworkers ask me to come over and help them with something. I'm so used to being able to right click, and I can't on (many of) their machines.
- Geee 7y ago
  Why don't they enable it?
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    So, one coworker in particular tried enabling right click after watching me always attempt to use it on her machine. She turned it off a few weeks later. She couldn't get the hang of right click on the magic mouse. She would right click when she meant to left click, and be unable to right click when she did want to. Despite watching her, I wasn't able to figure out what she was doing wrong. The gesture works perfectly for me. Of course, Apple could resolve all of this by putting two buttons on their mice...
    - wackget 7y ago
      >Of course, Apple could resolve all of this by putting two buttons on their mice... That, right there, is a perfect metaphor for basically every complaint about Apple.
    - Geee 7y ago
      Well, you have to lift your left finger to do it, and it takes probably a bit of learning.
      - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
        Yeah, that's what I thought the problem was to, but it looked like she was lifting her finger. I legitimately don't understand why the gesture wasn't being recognized consistently.
    - christoph 7y ago
      I personally find the magic mouse to be the most frustratingly annoying Apple device ever made. I want to love it. Functionality wise, I think it's fantastic. I even agree with the charging port on the bottom in the latest iterations. I just find the shape and form of it to be so horrible to use for any period time, that no matter how much I try to love it and use it, it just ends up giving me physical pain in my hand and I revert back to my 10 year old Microsoft mouse. I don't understand how anyone can use it for any reasonable length of time.
      - dividedbyzero 7y ago
        For me it's just the opposite – it's the one mouse that seems to fit my hand and my anatomy just right. Feels as natural to me as using a mouse can possibly be. Other mice force my hand into this typical holding-a-mouse gesture that gets crampy and exhausting pretty quickly. I don't really know what exactly makes the difference for me, but my hand posture looks completely different when using a Magic Mouse, in a way that (most?) other mice would be to irregularly shaped, thick, large for. No definite idea, but it's a great reminder of how much such things can vary between individuals.
0xff00ffee 7y ago
Tangentially related: Now for bonus points, install VNC, connect to a linux session, and try to get a middle-click without installing sketchy a 3rd-party macOS mouse app. Been using VNC on macOS for 8 years and still haven't solved this natively.

You can right click on the Magic Mouse perfectly fine (just click on the right side), I don't get it why they couldn't do it?

by Geee 7y ago

You can right click on the Magic Mouse perfectly fine (just click on the right side), I don't get it why they couldn't do it?

Wowfunhappy 7y ago

This is disabled by default, you need to go into System Preferences to enable it. I work in an office where everyone has an iMac and a Magic Mouse, and this is a common annoyance when coworkers ask me to come over and help them with something. I'm so used to being able to right click, and I can't on (many of) their machines.

Geee 7y ago
Why don't they enable it?
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  So, one coworker in particular tried enabling right click after watching me always attempt to use it on her machine. She turned it off a few weeks later. She couldn't get the hang of right click on the magic mouse. She would right click when she meant to left click, and be unable to right click when she did want to. Despite watching her, I wasn't able to figure out what she was doing wrong. The gesture works perfectly for me. Of course, Apple could resolve all of this by putting two buttons on their mice...
  - wackget 7y ago
    >Of course, Apple could resolve all of this by putting two buttons on their mice... That, right there, is a perfect metaphor for basically every complaint about Apple.
  - Geee 7y ago
    Well, you have to lift your left finger to do it, and it takes probably a bit of learning.
    - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
      Yeah, that's what I thought the problem was to, but it looked like she was lifting her finger. I legitimately don't understand why the gesture wasn't being recognized consistently.
  - christoph 7y ago
    I personally find the magic mouse to be the most frustratingly annoying Apple device ever made. I want to love it. Functionality wise, I think it's fantastic. I even agree with the charging port on the bottom in the latest iterations. I just find the shape and form of it to be so horrible to use for any period time, that no matter how much I try to love it and use it, it just ends up giving me physical pain in my hand and I revert back to my 10 year old Microsoft mouse. I don't understand how anyone can use it for any reasonable length of time.
    - dividedbyzero 7y ago
      For me it's just the opposite – it's the one mouse that seems to fit my hand and my anatomy just right. Feels as natural to me as using a mouse can possibly be. Other mice force my hand into this typical holding-a-mouse gesture that gets crampy and exhausting pretty quickly. I don't really know what exactly makes the difference for me, but my hand posture looks completely different when using a Magic Mouse, in a way that (most?) other mice would be to irregularly shaped, thick, large for. No definite idea, but it's a great reminder of how much such things can vary between individuals.

0xff00ffee 7y ago

Tangentially related: Now for bonus points, install VNC, connect to a linux session, and try to get a middle-click without installing sketchy a 3rd-party macOS mouse app. Been using VNC on macOS for 8 years and still haven't solved this natively.