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One day I mentioned this fact in front of a sales guy, and he showed me how to do it. I even came to the conclusion that stupid Macs don’t have right-click functionality, the cornerstone of every Windows app. I tried to press on all parts of the trackpad (the sensitive area under the keyboard in the middle) but couldn’t invoke the right click. I must admit I didn’t know how to right-click for at least a year after having my first MacBook.

If you ask what the absolute minimum any MacBook user must know, I will name two: right click and Spotlight Search. And finally, learn how to use advanced topics, such as Siri and backing up with Time Machine.

How to use right click in mac install#

Then learn how to install new apps without getting a virus on your MacBook.

How to use right click in mac pro#

So, how a beginner can learn using MacBook Pro or MacBook Air? If you are switching from PC, you need to learn keyboard shortcuts, Spotlight Search, and Finder. I guarantee, in the end, you will know more than 95% of users who have been using Mac for years. All you need is to read this blog and open each link I have to other posts I wrote. I don’t want you to waste a year, so I assembled an absolute minimum you need to know to use Macs efficiently. It took me almost a year to learn basics. With my next purchase, MacBook Air, I didn’t have enough space to install Windows, so I had to learn how to use macOS (Apple’s operating system). So, I installed Windows using Bootcamp and used it as a PC. That’s it, you’ll now be able to use the hotkey to right click on any selected element on your Mac.When I bought my first Mac (it was Mac mini), I absolutely hated it.

Select the Right Click workflow, and set your preferred hotkey to use for right clicking.

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Once the update has been installed, head over to Alfred Preferences and go to “Workflows.”.

To do this, just open Alfred and type “update.”

You’ll probably have to install an update to the workflow.

Open the downloaded file and it’ll automatically be added to Alfred.

There’s a free version available, but you’ll have to buy the Alfred Powerpack to use Workflows.

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Alfred ( free trial license starts at £19) is a productivity app for Mac, and the only paid Mac app other than BTT that I recommend people to check out. If you don’t want to handle writing and saving an Apple Script, you can use a pre-built Alfred workflow. That’s it, you can now use your chosen keyboard combination to perform a right-click on your Mac.

From the pop-up, select the Apple Script file you just saved.

Click on the box under “ Trigger Predefined Action” and choose “ Launch Application /Open File / Start Apple Script.”.

Click on “ Add New Shortcut or Key Sequence,” select “ Key Sequence” and choose the key combination you want to use.

Next, in Better Touch Tool preferences, head over to the Keyboard tab.

Tell _selection to perform action "AXShowMenu" Set _selection to value of attribute "AXFocusedUIElement"

Tell application "System Events" to set frontApp to name of first process whose frontmost is true Save the file (I saved it as rightclickscript on my Desktop).

Launch Script Editor on your Mac, and paste the following AppleScript into it.

Here’s how you can use Better Touch Tool to right click on a selected element on Mac. The app is paid, but it offers a free trial, and brings a lot of features. If you’re annoyed of having to add every single app you want to use the right click shortcut on to the list of apps allowed to control your Mac, you can use Better Touch Tool ( 45 day free trial license starts at $6.50) as well.

Open Automator, and create a new Service by selecting ‘Contextual Workflow.’.

Here are the steps you’ll need to follow: The first (and the only free) method to right click on Mac using a keyboard requires some Apple Script work, and a little bit of playtime with Automator - both incredibly useful tools that Apple bundles with every Mac. Note: I tried these methods on my 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave Developer Beta and all of them worked perfectly fine.

Using Keyboard on Mac with Better Touch Tool.

Using Keyboard on Mac with Apple Script and Automator.

So after quite some time of scouring the internet, I was able to figure out three separate ways that you can right click on a highlighted element without having to move your mouse cursor there first. For the most part, there are ways that you can configure keyboard shortcuts to perform a right click in macOS, however these ways simply perform a right click wherever the mouse cursor happens to be, instead of the file, folder, URL, or word that you happen to have selected.