[MacTUG] Magic mouse's right button stops working

[Keith Peck]

After a fresh re-install of Mac OS10.7.5 for a client yesterday the right-click button didn't change its behavior when set as the "Secondary Button" - only thing that would work was the traditional [Control]+click.

The fix for me was hinted at here...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4322019?start=90&tstart=0

1. Open Finder
2. Go to

/System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin

3. Control-click the file listed above and choose "Show Package Contents"
4. now in the finder window navigate to

Contents/PlugIns/

 5. In this folder should be two files named

AppleBluetoothHIDMouse.plist

and

AppleHIDMouse.plist

6. If you don't find these files, you need to get them from another Mac and copy the files into the folder. (I got them from a machine running OSX 10.6.8)
7. You will be prompted to "Authenticate" when copying the files into the plugins folder.
8. Log out
9. Log in and Right-click should work. You may need to go to System Preferences > Mouse and set the right button to the "Secondary Button" once again.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca [mailto:mactug-bounces at lists.uwaterloo.ca] On Behalf Of Glenn Anderson
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 9:35 AM
To: macTug
Subject: [MacTUG] Magic mouse's right button stops working

I have a puzzling problem in that my fairly new mouse stops recognizing a right-click after some period of inactivity. It seems that if I don't use the mouse for some period of time, the right click stops working. All the other mouse functions work.

If I turn the mouse off/on, right click then starts working again.

Has anyone seen this sort of issue? I wonder if the mouse is going to "sleep" and not walking up properly.



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