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Jul 13, 2010
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Hi,

I've been looking for a way to use a hotkey shortcut for accessing the right-click contextual menu, but haven't been able to find any solutions. I am using Mac os x 10.8.

Anyone know a way how to do this?

Thanks =)
 
Actually it's not the Fn key. The key your referring to is called the menu key or application key.

No, Macs don't have an equivalent key.
 
That's right, thanks I forgot the name of the key. However, it is always used in the form of a keyboard shortcut, meaning the Fn (or sometimes control, shift, etc.)key and the menu / Application key are used together. The mac is similar in the way it uses the Fn key, but only when the keyboard config is set to use the F keys as standard function found in system settings -> keyboard. More information can be found here on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_key

The slight difference in what I'm looking for is not the same actual key equivalence on the mac, but an equivalent or similar way to do that shortcut. I found the answer though on this forum link:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9171613/right-click-shortcut-for-mac-lion-os
 
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