Because pressing control and left click in Minecraft on a Mac results in a right click, it is impossible to left click (and therefore break blocks or attack) whilst sprinting. Before you mark this as a duplicate of bug reports claiming that the control + left click = right click does NOT work, let me be perfectly clear : control + left click = right click DOES work on Mac, but the fact that this cannot be disabled prevents you from left clicking whilst, for instance, sprinting with control because it results in being a right click. So, here's my suggestion for a simple fix : in the controls panel of the options on the Minecraft Mac client, add the option to DISABLE the control + left click = right click for the people who do not need it and do not want it for the reasons stated above (because you can use a mouse or click with two fingers on a trackpad to right click anyways).The feature was added because normally this does happen in the normal OS, but Mac disables this feature for games because many games, FPS for example, use the control key. Some people, not realizing that this conflicts with sprinting with control, requested that Minecraft add the feature to the game. BUT THIS FEATURE IS ABSOLUTELY OBNOXIOUS. Furthermore, the control + left click thing DOES NOT happen on Windows because IT WAS NOT ADDED IN 1.6. If you want proof, here's the 1.6 change log where the "feature" (aka annoyance) was added. Look at the 4th bulletpoint. It says it right there. It was added. Do you believe me now? https://mojang.com/2013/07/minecraft-1-6-2-pre-release/
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Torabi
Control+Left-Click triggering a right-click is handled by LWJGL. They broke it, @unknown hacked together a temporary fix for 1.6.2, which he then pulled once the issue was fixed in LWJGL. So in the current release of Minecraft, it's completely transparent to the Minecraft code. On a Mac, it receives a right-click event from LWJGL, and doesn't even know that it was actually Control+Left-Click. So it would not be possible to make this an option anymore, unless LWJGL exposes such an option in their code.
The option you do have is to change sprint to a different key.
galaxy_2alex
Also, please don't yell at us. It won't make anything better, it makes it worse.
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Alright. Thanks for clearing that up. I apologize for being mad, I just was tired of false flags and unclear answers. I didn't understand that the ctrl+click was no longer under Minecraft's code because the patch notes made it seem it wasn't. But if the temporary fix that Grum eventually pulled back is no longer in play, why does ctrl+q not throw a stack on Mac?
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