10.4: Implement two-finger clicking on MacBook Pros

May 30, '06 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: mjerjohnson

I can in no way take credit for this, but I've heard the new MacBooks are able to right-=click with a two-finger tap on the trackpad. Some nice folks in the oxs86project forums have ported the solution to the MacBook Pro. I haven't had time to try out on my machine yet, but there's a thread on the MacBook Pro area of Apple Discussions, with many people being very happy. I've found some great hints here and figured this is something people here would be interested in.

[robg adds: I would expect Apple will enable this feature by default in a future software update. I have not looked at the above-linked package, so I'm not sure what it consists of. If it were my $2500 MacBook Pro, I might be inclined to wait for an Apple-released solution, but I'm a bit of a chicken about such things...though two-finger clicking is a very cool feature, based on my time so far with my new MacBook.

As an aside, this is also the first hint to use of one of our new hardware categories!]

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