Right click on MacBook Aluminium Unibody 2008

Hi,

I have just installed ZorinOS Ultimate on my late 2008 MacBook 13" Aluminium Unibody. It works superbly but I cannot get the trackpad to function properly. Most importantly I'd like to be able to right-click without having to use the keyboard.

Is there any way to make this work? There is a mountain of incomplete info on the net but nothing actually seems to solve the problem.

The machine is a MacBook 13" unibody, late 2008, "5,1" with a Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz CPU, 8GB of 1066 MHz DDR3 RAM.

Everything about ZorinOS is superb, and it would be perfect if the trackpad could at least left and right click and two finger scroll.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks

Paulo

Hi, I have been struggling too to find a solution - according to this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook5-1/Trusty

your Macbook should cope with the trackpad working 'out of the box'. Trusty was the basis for Zorin 9 Core. What would be interesting (and I appreciate this will be time consuming) would be to download Zorin 9 Core from here:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/zorin-os/files/9/

Run it live first, then using Synaptic Package Manager, search for 'trackpad' and see what packages come back as being installed. Also check the 'Settings' to see if there is anything present there not present in Zorin 12.1 (sadly Zorin failed to include Synaptic in 12.1 - you have to add it from 'Software' (to bottom right of Z menu) - might be worth installing that first thinking about it and do the same search as advised for Zorin 9.

Keep us posted.