MiddleClick

Emulate a scroll wheel click with three finger Click or Tap on MacBook trackpad and Magic Mouse

with macOS Sonoma¹⁴ support!

🔍 Usage

It's more than just ⌘+click

System-wide · close tabs by middleclicking on them

In Safari · middleclicking on a link opens it in the background as a new tab

In Terminal · paste selected text

Install

Via 🍺 Homebrew (Recommended)

brew install --cask --no-quarantine middleclick

Check out the cask if you're interested

Direct Download ·

Hide Status Bar Item

1. Holding ⌘, drag it away from the status bar until you see a ✖️ (cross icon)
2. Let it go

To recover the item, just open MiddleClick when it's already running

Preferences

Number of Fingers

• Want to use 4, 5 or 2 fingers for middleclicking? No trouble. Even 10 is possible.

defaults write art.ginzburg.MiddleClick fingers 4

Default is 3

Allow to click with more than the defined number of fingers.

• This is useful if your second hand accidentally touches the touchpad.
• Unfortunately, this does not serve as a palm rejection technique for huge touchpads.

defaults write art.ginzburg.MiddleClick allowMoreFingers true

Default is false, so that the number of fingers is precise

Tapping preferences

Max Distance Delta

• The maximum distance the cursor can travel between touch and release for a tap to be considered valid.
• The position is normalized and values go from 0 to 1.

defaults write art.ginzburg.MiddleClick maxDistanceDelta 0.03

Default is 0.05

Max Time Delta

• The maximum interval in milliseconds between touch and release for a tap to be considered valid.

defaults write art.ginzburg.MiddleClick maxTimeDelta 150

Default is 300

Credits

Created by Clément Beffa,
fixed by Alex Galonsky and Carlos E. Hernandez,
revived by Pascâl Hartmann,
maintained by Arthur Ginzburg