Mouse right click on iMacs

[pty10]

I have a lab of iMacs where mouse right click isn't enabled. When I go to system preferences I can see that both left and right side of the mouse are set to primary. Using composer, I created a DMG (using new and modified snapshot) option to get the HIDMouse plist.

When I deploy the DMG using Self service, I can see in system preferences that the right click of the mouse changes from primary to secondary but still not able to right click with the mouse. If I manually change it back to primary and then back to secondary, I can right click.

1. If there's anything I'm missing here?
2. Also, how can I deploy to dmg to all computers in the lab without using Self Service? Is it just a matter of turning off self service, set the scope to the smart group, set the trigger to every 15 and the frequency to ongoing?

Cheers,

Henry

[Kumarasinghe]

Please try the MCX or scripted method posted in your previous thread.
https://jamfnation.jamfsoftware.com/discussion.html?id=7829

[pty10]

I saw your post on the thread but it doesn't really explain how to achieve this. Do you mind expanding on how to do it?

[Kumarasinghe]

What type of Apple mouse you are talking about - Apple mighty mouse or magic mouse?
Have you done any Managed Preferences with your Casper setup?

[pty10]

mighty mouse. We do a few MCX 's setup to do different things.

[Kumarasinghe · Accepted solution]

Ok.

Create 2 MCX entries.

1. Apple Mighty Mouse - Button2-Button2 as Secondary Button (Right-Click)

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2. Apple Mighty Mouse - ButtonDominance-Button1 as Primary Button

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Then it would look like this in your Managed Preferences list
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[pty10]

Thanks for the info Kumarasinghe, worked beautiful. Followed your steps and issue resolved. Thanks heaps!

[chris_kemp]

My favorite pet peeve about Macs...

Glad you for it sorted.

[taugust04]

Has anyone gotten this working in a configuration profile instead of MCX in Yosemite? Uploading the com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist file pre-configured into Casper and creating a Configuration Profile from it works for Mavericks clients but its on my "not working" list in Yosemite. In Yosemite, System Preferences shows the Secondary Button as being configured but it doesn't do anything. If I remove the profile, it reverts back to Primary, and then I can manually set it to Secondary, and then right-click works again as usual. Weird...

[jaharmi]

@taugust04, I’ve also seen the same Yosemite behavior when setting the Button2 value via a “defaults write” command run as the user via a LaunchAgent. This previously worked with Mavericks, but does not work in Yosemite (10.10.2).

In Yosemite, if I change the setting manually in System Preferences, it does take effect.

[rcorbin]

Would be great if this could be done via a configuration profile. I think the MCX stuff is getting pretty much phased out of Yosemite.

[rmanly]

@rcorbin

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>PayloadContent</key>
    <array>
      <dict>
        <key>PayloadContent</key>
        <dict>
          <key>com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse</key>
          <dict>
            <key>Set-Once</key>
            <array>
              <dict>
                <key>mcx_preference_settings</key>
                <dict>
                  <key>Button1</key>
                  <integer>1</integer>
                  <key>Button2</key>
                  <integer>2</integer>
                </dict>
              </dict>
            </array>
          </dict>
        </dict>
        <key>PayloadEnabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
        <string>MCXToProfile.2df0c275-98a3-483d-9556-b44bb6aef558.alacarte.customsettings.2cc59d4d-302a-4a2c-ad8a-db588411ed6b</string>
        <key>PayloadType</key>
        <string>com.apple.ManagedClient.preferences</string>
        <key>PayloadUUID</key>
        <string>2cc59d4d-302a-4a2c-ad8a-db588411ed6b</string>
        <key>PayloadVersion</key>
        <integer>1</integer>
      </dict>
    </array>
    <key>PayloadDescription</key>
    <string>Included custom settings:
      com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse

      Git revision: 1d30395cd4</string>
    <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
    <string>MCXToProfile: com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse</string>
    <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
    <string>org.foo.MouseRightClick</string>
    <key>PayloadOrganization</key>
    <string></string>
    <key>PayloadRemovalDisallowed</key>
    <true/>
    <key>PayloadScope</key>
    <string>System</string>
    <key>PayloadType</key>
    <string>Configuration</string>
    <key>PayloadUUID</key>
    <string>2df0c275-98a3-483d-9556-b44bb6aef558</string>
    <key>PayloadVersion</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
  </dict>
</plist>

[michael_ferguso]

@jaharmi @taugust04 @rmanly Did you guys ever get this working on Yosemite? Doesn't seem to work for me on 10.10.4. Do you push the profile, then set it manually, then it works?

Thanks!

[rmanly]

@michael.ferguson

I switched to using the AmsysUK public profile this year, it covers all input devices and that seems to be working.

I've only personally tested on machines with trackpads though.

I used the profile above with 10.9.x successfully. I did see the behavior some others are describing where it looks set in sys pref pane and it doesn't actually work but that was when the config. profile was set to forced and changing to Set-Once resolved that (If I am remembering correctly).

EDIT: can confirm that the Amsys profile works with mighty mice and magic mice.

[Kumarasinghe]

We use the scripted method now.

# Set Apple Mouse button 1 to Primary click and button 2 to Secondary click.
defaults write "/System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse" Button1 -integer 1
defaults write "/System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse" Button2 -integer 2
defaults write "/System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse" Button3 -integer 3
defaults write "/System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse" ButtonDominance -integer 1

[Petrie]

Has anyone got this working in Yosemite or El Capitan yet through profile manager?

I'm using Profile Manager not Jamf and i've tried several of the methods above by inputting the scripts and policies into the custom settings section of device groups but no luck yet as the layout and options are slightly different. Could it be that this only works as a setting for users and not devices?

It's such a shame that this isn't a standard managed setting as it seems like a really common issue.

[blinvisible]

An updated method for working around the fact that config profiles don't fully/correctly apply the mouse button settings:

https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/25059/managing-mouse-button-behavior-in-modern-macos