Comments on: Adding right click to a Macbook Pro

By: lospuertos

lospuertos — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:17:40 +0000

Oh i’m deff going to apply this to my mbp!

to all the complaining fanboyz: stfu and if you don’t understand this just move on.

i have a triple sli, triple ssd, triple ddr3 tdr w7x64 system and i use my mbp with my iphone when im on the go.

but i want to play starcraft and cs1.6 and it has to be on a proper windows boot.

using a mouse is the workaround but it’s not something to settle with.

love it!

By: tanv

tanv — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:07:48 +0000

some of the comments posted are just ludicrous. yes im referring to these fanboys!

the two finger trackpad option is a useful option certainly. but that mouse buton is urely big enough to have a second button.

i know it may feel inordinately complicated for some people to handle more than one mouse button or even the thought that there could be a second mouse button but it does have its uses.

ive gotten used to double tap in mac os but im thinking that it will be especially useful when using windows. especially on the move when i dont wanna use a mouse.

so its a great mod and il be implementing this asap!

any chance of better pics tho?

By: Tony Lewis

Tony Lewis — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:43:13 +0000

I have a first generation MacBook, and it sure as hell DOES support two-finger right-clicks.

There’s even a download to enable this on iBook models, both the G4 and the G3.

Don’t listen to the FUD!

By: spiritplumber

spiritplumber — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:14:23 +0000

hey… original poster here (sorry for blurry pix, I only have a cellphone as a camera).

I know that you can ctrl+click, or two-finger-tap-click and so on. That’s cool.

But I like playing starcraft and using right-click-drag in the software package I use to do PCB design :)

And well… I really can’t call a laptop mine if I haven’t done something to it ;)

By: Bertrix

Bertrix — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 17:31:17 +0000

I have the versatility or running both OSX and whatever else I want including windows.

Buying a non-mac system does not mean you cannot use macoxs

By: brsnow

brsnow — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:55:03 +0000

zapdoodle nailed it right on the head. And the thing that most on here are missing is its not just one or two finger clicks, its a multitouch pad. It supports some basic gestures like pinching for zooming, twisting for rotating and swiping for scrolling. And all the people who are poo pooing macs for the price, I’ve had many laptops over the years, but just got my first mac laptop, a MBP a little while ago. It is honestly the best laptop I have had as far as appearance, ruggedness, and quality. So it was worth the marginally higher price, not to mention the face that I have the versatility or running both OSX and whatever else I want including windows.

By: smart@$$

smart@$$ — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:36:30 +0000

duh u could do control and click or 2 fingers on trackpad then click or if ur clicking on teh desktop u could just click and hold it.

By: zapdoodle

zapdoodle — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 00:05:52 +0000

The reason people are commenting on it is because it purports to fix a problem that already has a trivial, built-in solution that the original author made no indication of even being aware of.

I don’t know if the guy knew about the menu option or not, a lot of people don’t. But if he hacked up a multi-thousand dollar piece of equipment without even checking the preference menu (or, just configuring X) then that is kinda silly. It also doesn’t help that the built-in multitouch is just cooler (it does more than just context-click.) That’s like modding a car to run on leaded gas.

By: glass

glass — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:15:33 +0000

@DanAdamKOF as they’re macheads who don’t get it. theres obvious usage scenario reasons for why one would want to have the right click as a seperate button as well, but I guess those guys never used programs made for two buttons(like some of apples own sw, yay….).

or using something else than macosx.

it’s a cool hack – but what would blind fanboys who don’t understand what they’re holding and doing know about cool hacks.

By: beta

beta — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:15:39 +0000

I’m glad some are amused by the fanboys spamming away here. However, I’m honestly just disturbed by some of the complete nutcases who grow so attached to and fond of a brand that they throw reason out the window.

By: joandrade

joandrade — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:15:20 +0000

yeah, or you can control+click.

By: DanAdamKOF

DanAdamKOF — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:44:14 +0000

I don’t understand this. Why are you guys reading hackaday if you’re making fun of someone for opening up his hardware to add functionality to it? Surely creating an extra button with no change in outside appearance isn’t a bad thing?

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:38:30 +0000

As others have said, and I just feel like repeating (and defining more clearly):

This is a redundant hack. *ALL* MacBooks and MacBook Pros have supported two-finger right-clicks from the beginning. This is not a trait that is unique to the unibody MacBook/MacBook Pros.

Furthermore, many late-model PowerBook G4 and iBook G4 models *also* support right-clicking with two fingers if they are running OS X Leopard 10.5. The trick here is that their trackpads must be capable of multi-touch. If you can two-finger scroll, you can two-finger right-click.

So to summarize: all Mac laptops going back to early/mid 2006 support two-finger right-clicks.

But hey, if you feel like cracking open your Mac needlessly, go for it.

By: mac anti-fanboy

mac anti-fanboy — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:35:49 +0000

@chris: exactly

@piku: LOL

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:31:45 +0000

As many have stated, there are other ways to right-click on a Macbook Pro. That said, I think it’s pretty cool that this guy found another way to hack up the hardware. That’s the point of this site, right? To open things up and make them work the way that *you* want them to.