Citrix on Mac OS X Annoyance Resolved
Jun. 29th, 2009 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ceemageWorking from home today.
The (otherwise excellent) Citrix ICA client for Mac OS X appears to have one minor flaw -- when used on my Mac Book Pro, at any rate. As I only ever use the touchpad, I am pretty much on automatic pilot to control-click for anything that needs a right-click mouse event. Citrix either doesn't detect this, or doesn't pass it through to the remote application. The solution is to use the other, less well-known, method of generating a right-click mouse event. Go to System Preferences - Keyboard & Mouse - Trackpad and switch on "Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click."
Now I've discovered this, I'm not entirely sure I ever need to go in to work again. Oh, except for those meeting thingies...
The (otherwise excellent) Citrix ICA client for Mac OS X appears to have one minor flaw -- when used on my Mac Book Pro, at any rate. As I only ever use the touchpad, I am pretty much on automatic pilot to control-click for anything that needs a right-click mouse event. Citrix either doesn't detect this, or doesn't pass it through to the remote application. The solution is to use the other, less well-known, method of generating a right-click mouse event. Go to System Preferences - Keyboard & Mouse - Trackpad and switch on "Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click."
Now I've discovered this, I'm not entirely sure I ever need to go in to work again. Oh, except for those meeting thingies...
Great tip - thanks
Date: 2009-11-18 03:28 pm (UTC)I just ran into the same problem when I switched to a MacBook Pro. My old PowerBook G4 used command-click to send a right-click through Citrix, but this doesn't work on the MacBook Pro.
(As an aside, I am running the Java version of the Citrix client, not the desktop version.)
John
Re: Great tip - thanks
Date: 2009-11-19 06:52 am (UTC)