Background
If you are a Mac user then you must be familiar with the peculiar trackpad gestures and usage Mac offers. Personally, I feel touch to click is a much better option then physically pressing the trackpad. In this post, I will show you how to do the same. I am using MacBook Pro running Sierra (10.13.4).
How to enable touch to click on your Mac
- Go to "Preferences" and select "Trackpad"
- Under "Point and Click" select "Tap to Click"
- Notice how "Click with two fingers" is also changed to "Click or tab with two finders" for secondary click.
- You can use this checkbox to enable or disable "Tap to click"
How to enable touch to click on your Mac with command line
You can do the same above setting with the command line. Execute following commands in your Terminal.
- sudo defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad Clicking -bool true
- sudo defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
- sudo defaults write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
NOTE: You will need to reboot your system for changes to take effect.
Similarly, to disable you can do
- sudo defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad Clicking -bool false
- sudo defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 0
- sudo defaults write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 0
Again reboot your machine to take effect.
