3/17/2023 0 Comments Magicprefs disable autostartWell, I thought that maybe, it was due to the old MBA having gotten warped and stuff from swollen batteries.īut the fact that this occurs on a brand new (refurbished), eliminates that theory. Is that enabled all the time now, or is it "disabled" all the time now? Whatever happened to, "ignore accidental trackpad input"? I thought my old MBA had just gotten warped (the battery had to be replaced - twice - for swelling, and this caused some screws to strip and fall out).Ī SEPARATE POINT IS MADE BELOW, WHICH IS WHY I USED A SEPARATE POST, BUT THE POSTS WERE THEN MERGED. I've been putting up with this problem for almost 5 years. For now, I am going to try working with the MagicPrefs real time display opened in the corner, and try to observe that when I have one of the invalid right click activations. One side effect of the trackpad having gotten so massively oversized (much more so on the vapid 12" MacBook) is that it reduces the area where you can rest your hands, and so by extension, your fingers. But there is NO sensitivity adjustment anywhere, not even in MagicPrefs. I noticed I can hold my finger 1 or 2 mm off the trackpad, and it still registers. (scrolling is never a problem though, just the right click). I would immediately sacrifice all other gestures just to have perfect right click and scrolling. It's the last Apple laptop to have such a thing.īeing able to right click, and being able to scroll are really the only "gestures" I care about. (I understand it might have some "accessibility" uses though).Īlso, the MacBook Air does contain a mechanical switch. Whoever came up with that feature (with some intent for general use) should be shot. I never considered that what I was doing was a "three fingers click", because I never considered the clicking finger (usually a thumb) as one of the fingers - because in my mind that thumb is in the virtual "clicking area" and not considered (but actually is) on the trackpad.Ĭan a moderator change the topic title to: "SOLVED: MacBook Air Spurious Contextual Menu Activations" or something? Thanks. I just can't believe that I put up with it for nearly 5 years on my old MBA, when I could have fixed it. The "real time graphical display" of MagicPrefs was indispensable to diagnosing this problem. The trick is then to enable "Three Finger Click" and set it to "Ctrl Left Click". They have actual clicking areas! You could not click on the main trackpad portion! I never had problems with spurious contextual menus on a 2007 MacBook Pro (RIP), and the old iBook G4 that I keep around. Apple has no options for what to do when more than two fingers click, so any number more than two, are treated as two. Note that it also activates if you press with three fingers, or four. ( ) I was doing this absentmindedly sometimes, for whatever reason. If I press anywhere on the trackpad with two fingers at the same time, the menu activates. The problem is that Apple's option for "Secondary Click" is too literal. The design of the trackpad (being far easier to click at the bottom than it is at the top) is consistent with my usage. I basically use the lower third of the trackpad as the "clicking area". This picture demonstrates my expectations for how "Secondary Click/Click with two fingers" should work. Thanks to insomnia, MagicPrefs and absolutely no one/nothing else.
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