Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse
with macOS Catalina10.15 support!
It's more than just
⌘
+click
System-wide
· close tabs by middleclicking/middletapping on them
In Safari
· middleclicking/middletap on a link opens it in background
Latest Release
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Additionally, you may also view Earlier Releases
- Holding
⌘
, drag it away from the status bar until you see a ✖️ (cross icon) - Let it go
To recover the item, just open MiddleTap when it's already running
- Want to use 4, 5 or 2 fingers for middleclicking? No trouble. Even 10 is possible.
defaults write com.rouge41.middleClick fingers <int>
Initially, it's 3 fingers to middleclick.
Make it open automatically when you log in
Just add MiddleTap to your "Login Items". (it's handy to be done using command line)
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to make login item at end with properties {path:"/Applications/MiddleClick.app", hidden:true}'
This fork differs from the base fork in some ways
- Configurations: Number of Fingers, Click or Tap
- preferred setting is saved for every user
- Removed old 32-bit/PowerPc
relaunch
binary due to it's incompatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina and greater. Replaced with inline restarting of the app - The App will not only restart on waking the Mac, but when a new touch device is added (so it immediately gains middleclicking ability) and when a display is added/reconfigured (for proper click positioning)
- Quit an old version of MiddleClick
- Remove it from the privacy settings
- Enable the new version in privacy settings when prompted
The app should be closed when you change the privacy settings, otherwise the Mouse may not be clickable and you may have to
killall MiddleClick
via terminal or even force restart the Mac.
Credits
This project was made by Clément Beffa,
Extended by LoPablo and DaFuqtor
and Mark Hughes