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Peter Sullivan ([personal profile] ceemage) wrote2009-06-29 10:31 am

Citrix on Mac OS X Annoyance Resolved

Working 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...

Great tip - thanks

(Anonymous) 2009-11-18 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you so much for this tip!

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

[identity profile] ceemage.livejournal.com 2009-11-19 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
Pleased you found it useful -- and Google is clearly indexing me as well.