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Tap to Click - El Cap and Sierra

  • March 15, 2017
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Does any one know what the command line is to enable tap to click? I tried these commands but not non of them take:

defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad Clicking -bool true
defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
defaults write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1

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  • Contributor
  • March 15, 2017

This seems to work for me and my BlueTooth Trackpad.

defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad Clicking -bool true

sdagley
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  • Jamf Heroes
  • July 26, 2017

@athompson When you say that seems to work for you, do you mean it works for you from the command line locally on a machine, or that you're using it in a configuration script to set it globally for all users on a machine? Given the lack of the /Library/Preferences/ prefix on the domain to write the pref to I suspect it's the former, and what I'm looking for is the latter.