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To: BunnySlippers

Can you explain to me why there is no rt. click capability on the imac? How does one get past this?


93 posted on 02/18/2008 9:16:11 AM PST by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (****************************Stop Continental Drift**)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Go to your system preferences. Click on “keyboard/mouse”, then choose mouse from the little menu. You can choose either right or left button.

I use a $9.99 Targus mouse, it has r/l buttons, and a scroll wheel. I just plugged it in, and it worked, no messing with the prefs needed. All the buttons work, but I have found that the R button will download mp3’s, whereas the L button will play them.

113 posted on 02/18/2008 9:25:41 AM PST by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
why there is no rt. click capability on the imac? How does one get past this?

There is. Has been for many years. You can plug in your MS mouse if you want or get the better mouse from Mac.

114 posted on 02/18/2008 9:25:49 AM PST by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
Can you explain to me why there is no rt. click capability on the imac? How does one get past this?

One becomes educated and learns that Macs have had "rt. click capability" since about 1991... and now come with a five button mouse.

319 posted on 02/18/2008 3:06:49 PM PST by Swordmaker (We can fix this, but you're gonna need a butter knife, a roll of duct tape, and a car battery.)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

can’t splain it, beause I have been right-clicking away with my mighty mouse for a couple of years now.

Before that I used a third party mouse (Kensington, IIRR. And before that, I just “ctrl-clk”ed.

Geesh!


337 posted on 02/18/2008 3:58:44 PM PST by jacquej
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

“Can you explain to me why there is no rt. click capability on the imac? How does one get past this?”

Nonsense you ignorant slut.


365 posted on 02/18/2008 6:28:50 PM PST by Sunnyflorida (Drill in the Gulf of Mexico/Anwar & we can join OPEC!!! || Write in Thomas Sowell for President.)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

“Can you explain to me why there is no rt. click capability on the imac? How does one get past this?”

I’m typing this reply on a 4-year-old Macintosh g/4. The mouse beside me is a _Logitech_ MX-610 wireless mouse, with no less than TEN buttons on it (plus scroll wheel, up and down and side-to-side).

The MX-610 was marketed to PCs only - it has NO “Mac support” from Logitech, no drivers, no nothing.

I plugged it into my Mac and OS X recognized it IMMEDIATELY, and gave me use of most of the buttons, including the “right click” button. No drivers needed - NOTHING needed. I just plugged it in and it WORKED.

Try THAT with a PC product.

Where did you EVER get the idea that modern Macs don’t recognize and can’t utilize multi-button mice?

- John


403 posted on 02/18/2008 8:26:00 PM PST by Fishrrman
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