HOW ON EARTH DOES A MIGHTY MOUSE FROM APPLE WORK

[Sierak]

HOW DO YOU USE A MIHHTY MOUSE THO

[Daniel Z.]

Click and move the pointer? Right click is control+click.

[Spotty]

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The Mighty Mouse is made of white plastic and has a recessed Apple logo on the mouse's face. The mouse has four functional controls: a left capacitive sensor, a right capacitive sensor, a track ball with a pressure sensor and side squeeze sensors. The track ball enables users to scroll a page or document in any direction, including diagonally. Instead of mechanical buttons, the touch-sensitive topshell (mentioned below) and the pressure-sensing trackball allow the mouse to detect which side is being touched or whether the trackball is being held in.

The mouse emits a sound when the scroll ball is rolled, but this is not a direct product of the ball moving; the sound is actually produced by a tiny speaker inside the mouse.^[3] There is no way to disable this feature other than physically disabling the speaker inside the mouse.^[4]

Currently, Mac OS X is the only operating system that fully supports the mouse without third-party software. When used with Mac OS X, the sensors can be set to launch applications or trigger features of the Apple operating system, such as Dashboard and Exposé. If not used with Mac OS X, the mouse behaves as a four "button" mouse with a vertical and horizontal scroll wheel. There are third-party drivers (XMouse,^[5] AppleM^[6]) that provide more functions to users of other platforms such as Windows.

The Mighty Mouse does not report whether the right and left sensors are activated simultaneously. In fact, it reports a right-click only when there is no finger contact on the left side of the mouse. Thus a right-click requires lifting the finger off the mouse, then right-clicking. This also means that the Mighty Mouse cannot support mouse chording, used by CAD software, games, and other applications where multiple functions are mapped to the mouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mighty_Mouse

[AskTJ]

Tap left to click and right to do the other thing. Just has hidden buttons.

[sazrocks]

...Like a normal mouse? Not sure what you're having difficulty with.

[Daniel Z.]

3 hours ago, AskTJ said:

Tap left to click and right to do the other thing. Just has hidden buttons.

 

2 hours ago, sazrocks said:

...Like a normal mouse? Not sure what you're having difficulty with.

There isn't a normal right click.

[NelizMastr]

20 minutes ago, Daniel Z. said:

 

There isn't a normal right click.

There is. You simply have to enable right clicking since macOS was designed way back when with a single mouse button by default so Apple mice still fall back to that.

[sazrocks]

6 hours ago, Daniel Z. said:

 

There isn't a normal right click.

Yes there is... you just push down on the right side instead of the left.

[DrDerp]

6 hours ago, sazrocks said:

Yes there is... you just push down on the right side instead of the left.

They aren’t talking about thto Magic Mouse, it’s the Mighty Mouse. It’s far more basic.

[sazrocks]

4 hours ago, DrDerp said:

They aren’t talking about thto Magic Mouse, it’s the Mighty Mouse. It’s far more basic.

I know... I used the mighty mouse for years. Just click on the right side like a normal mouse.