I regularly use Chicken of the VNC (CotV) and Apple Remote Desktop (v2.2) to access a number of various Macs and Windows machines on both LAN and WAN connections. I also have seven other OSs installed with Parallels on my MacBook. Each of these scenarios respond differently to Command-clicking as a substitute for a genuine right-click. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it only respects the Command key. Sometimes I don’t have a mouse with me, so I get different results. (The Command-click in CotV is not recognized, for instance.).
Since they all work beautifully with a real right-click, I enabled a feature in the Keyboard & Mouse system preference to use two fingers on the track pad to simulate a right click to see how it might work. Much to my pleasure, it works like a charm! System Preferences » Keyboard & Mouse » Trackpad > [x] Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click.
Only rarely do I accidently ‘right-click’ when I don’t mean to, so it’s pret…
