I have a 3 finger click gesture configured for Safari and Chrome to send a middle click (i.e. open link in new tab).
This most of the time works, but sometimes doesn't. It instead opens the context menu. (i.e. right click).
Investigating this, I find that when I put 3 fingers on the trackpad and apply a small pressure (as if leading to a click, but not clicking) the context menu opens.
Any idea what is causing this 3 finger right click behavior please?
If I quit BetterTouchTool, this 3 finger pressure tap doesn't happen anymore.
This means it's not an OS or other tool behavior that I'm seeing.
I also checked if I accidentally configured an extra gesture, and I haven't.
I've tried that, it didn't feel great. It made the problem go away, but then made 3 finger clicks accidental, whereas I have a few other 3 finger gestures. (For example 3 finger swipe to switch tabs.)
But, here's the thing: when I get the strange right click on 3 finger pressure, there is no click.
What causes a 3 finger pressure to be interpreted as a right click?
The same pressure with 2 fingers doesn't cause the right click, must. have the 3rd finger to trigger.
For some three finger clicks (mostly when they include the thumb) macOS performs a right-click.
Unfortunately there is no good way to determine the exact pressure when macOS decides to do such a right-click (so BTT can block it), that's why BTT works with the mentioned defaults.
Usually the logic to workaround this in BTT works quite well to prevent this right-click from happening, however everybody uses the trackpads in slightly different ways, thus maybe the logic doesn't fit your case good enough.
One workaround could be to add a "3 Finger Clickswipe Left", as soon as a click swipe is configured in BTT, it will block any right click if three or more fingers are touching the trackpad.
Andreas, I don't think this strange right-click is coming from macOS, as it stops happening as soon as I quit BetterTouchTool.
Also it happens without an actual haptic click on the trackpad, so I doubt it's an actual right-click registered by the OS.
Do you see my point?
I'm not sure what you mean about the 3 Finger Clickswipes though.
BTT disables the haptic feedback for the system clicks in this case, so it can still come from the system even though no haptic feedback is happening. I can't think of another reason for a right click to happen - especially if it goes away when lowering the sensitivity.
I mean just adding a 3 finger click swipe should prevent the right click from happening regardless of what's causing it:
new here and I downloaded three-finger-tap-window-management and I have the same problem I guess like @Triology
It's never accurate enough to be used by me: sometimes the windows are moved. But mostly I get a optional click behavior.
I am on macOS Ventura on a M1 16" with the really huge Touchpad
One - kinda dumb on my behalf - gotcha is that if you set the sensitivity of “Normal Click : Pressure necessary to recognize normal click (only applys to BTT gestures, not system gestures)” to zero - i.e. slide it all the way to the left, it disables that swipe action . This confounded me for a few days.
@Andreas_Hegenberg , perhaps a visual indication that you are disabling those swipes might be nice for idiots like myself?
And thanks for BTT BTW, I don’t know what I’d do without it.
Pete
