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.

2 Responses to “Problems with Secondary-Click Being Disabled on Macbook Resume”

  1. Sean Says:

    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/

  2. Chris Says:

    How are you suppsed to do this and what is you “Crontab”?

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