By Rob Griffiths (macosxhints@macworld.com)

Enable trackpad tapping at the login window

Do you use the trackpad on your Mac laptop for clicking (via the Trackpad Gestures section of the Trackpad tab in the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel)? I do, and for me, it's one of those things that quickly becomes natural -- if I'm ever using someone else's machine and they haven't enabled this feature, I'll often be tapping on the trackpad in frustration, wondering what's wrong with it.

Outside of using someone else's Mac, though, there's a spot on your own machine where trackpad tapping is disabled: the login window. The reason that tapping doesn't work at the login window is because the setting to enable it is a user-level setting, and the login window is (obviously) not being run as any one user. You can, however, make trackpad taps work in this screen with a simple Terminal command.
Enable trackpad tapping at the login window

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