Aral Balkan

Cyborg rights activist.

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Changing your battery disables two-finger double click in OS X

On Tiger (I'm running 10.4.7), changing your laptop battery reverts the preference for two-finger clicking. To get it working again, you must go into your System Preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse and disable and then re-enable the Tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click option.