Problems with Secondary-Click Being Disabled on Macbook Resume
January 18th, 2007
I just stumbled across someone else who is having the same issue as me…when my Macbook wakes up from sleep I can no longer double-tap to right click. Seems petty, but it has an insane ability to piss me off. Well, knowing that someone has had to put up with the same problem, I was driven to come up with a simple fix.
Edit your crontab:
$ crontab -e
Paste the following:
0-59 * * * * defaults write "Apple Global Domain" com.apple.trackpad.enableSecondaryClick 1
This will re-enable secondary clicking every minute (poor solution, but it works). If someone knows if it’s possible to trigger a script when coming out of sleep/hibernate, please let me know in the comments.
February 19th, 2007 at 01:21 PM
There is a very handy open source program called Sleepwatcher that triggers scripts and other actions on wake, sleep, or idleness. It’s available here http://www.bernhard-baehr.de/
March 14th, 2008 at 07:36 AM
How are you suppsed to do this and what is you “Crontab”?