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> almost nobody has a three-button mouse laying around With the exception of a trackpad or Magic Mouse (or whatever Apple calls it), doesn’t everyone using a m
by jonhohle 3y ago
> almost nobody has a three-button mouse laying around
With the exception of a trackpad or Magic Mouse (or whatever Apple calls it), doesn’t everyone using a mouse have a three button mouse? Is the scroll-wheel click no longer used as middle click by default? Even Apple’s best mouse, the Mighty Mouse, can middle click.
- gumby 3y agoThe apple trackpads support multi-finger clicks and swipes, though of course the chording is different (you can’t simply press the “middle” button by itself).
- jonhohle 3y agoSince OP was talking about mice, I wanted to differentiate from trackpads. Maybe people don’t use mice anymore and I’m just out of the loop (though my 12yo uses a mouse with his iPad) or maybe OP is thinking of pre-scrollwheel three button mice.
- linguae 3y agoI've faced similar issues when trying Plan 9, which assumes a three-button mouse and makes heavy use of mouse chording. I had difficulties using my normal mouse wheel USB mice. I ended up purchasing some old Sun USB three-button mice for experimenting with Plan 9.
- lproven 3y ago> I had difficulties using my normal mouse wheel USB mice. Weird. I do this dozens of times an hour on mine, no problem.
- lproven 3y agoNot by default, they don't. I recently got a Macbook from work, an M1 running the latest macOS, and there is no middle-click. There is no built-in function to enable it, either. This being the Mac world, there's a well-known commercial tool to provide it: https://middleclick.app/ https://middleclick.app/ I found a FOSS equivalent: https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-Ventura https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-Ventura
- freeone3000 3y agoHolding down a middle click on a wheel is moderately awkward. Grabbing a mouse with a few more buttons and binding one to “middle” click is much nicer.
- ithkuil 3y agoI bought an actual three button mouse to work with acme precisely for that reason
- lispm 3y agoIf you look besides Apple, there are lots of mouse variants with three or more buttons in every computer shop available.
- Gordonjcp 3y agoWith a trackpad you can two-finger-tap for right click and three-finger-tap for middle click, at least on Linux. This even works on Macs that have had Linux installed.