Click on the box under “ Trigger Predefined Action” and choose “ Launch Application /Open File / Start Apple Script.”.

Click on “ Add New Shortcut or Key Sequence,” select “ Key Sequence” and choose the key combination you want to use.

Next, in Better Touch Tool preferences, head over to the Keyboard tab.

Tell _selection to perform action 'AXShowMenu' Set _selection to value of attribute 'AXFocusedUIElement' Tell application 'System Events' to set frontApp to name of first process whose frontmost is true

Save the file (I saved it as rightclickscript on my Desktop).

Launch Script Editor on your Mac, and paste the following AppleScript into it.

Here’s how you can use Better Touch Tool to right click on a selected element on Mac. The app is paid, but it offers a free trial, and brings a lot of features. If you’re annoyed of having to add every single app you want to use the right click shortcut on to the list of apps allowed to control your Mac, you can use Better Touch Tool ( 45 day free trial license starts at $6.50) as well.

Open Automator, and create a new Service by selecting ‘Contextual Workflow.’.

Here are the steps you’ll need to follow: The first (and the only free) method to right click on Mac using a keyboard requires some Apple Script work, and a little bit of playtime with Automator - both incredibly useful tools that Apple bundles with every Mac. Note: I tried these methods on my 2017 MacBook Pro running macOS Mojave Developer Beta and all of them worked perfectly fine.

Using Keyboard on Mac with Better Touch Tool.

Using Keyboard on Mac with Apple Script and Automator.

So after quite some time of scouring the internet, I was able to figure out three separate ways that you can right click on a highlighted element without having to move your mouse cursor there first. For the most part, there are ways that you can configure keyboard shortcuts to perform a right click in macOS, however these ways simply perform a right click wherever the mouse cursor happens to be, instead of the file, folder, URL, or word that you happen to have selected.

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