This is so much easier than pressing hard on the bottom side of the touchpad why did no one tell me this was a thing 😭😭
I’m glad you know it now because its so helpful! These have been around 17 or so years I believe.
It’s been on Apple products for a solid 20 years. On the PC side it totally depends on the hardware and drivers to support multi-touch
Every laptop I ever used had this, I’m still bewildered that people don’t know. I actually like touchpads because they give you a bunch of gestures a mouse just can’t
If the ergonomics weren’t complete dog shit I’d still be using the magic mouse to get the best of both worlds.
Such as?
Pinch to zoom on images and browsers, swiping left and right to go forward or back in a browser, switching virtual desktops
Ctrl+scroll wheel to zoom. Mine had additional buttons for back and forward, some have scroll wheels that can be clicked left and right. Virtual desktop I don’t use so dunno, but I think there’s a quick keyboard shortcut.
Yep, the mouse needs the keyboard for most of those.
You have your hand there pretty much by default. If you’re doing anything you’re using it for shortcuts anyway.
I’m not sure why you’re being down voted. My left hand basically never leaves the home keys in a keyboard / mouse setup and I use various left hand + mouse combos to achieve all these things.
I fucking hate touchpads and if I do use a laptop undocked I’ll generally disable the touchpad when the mouse is plugged in.
They’re useful tricks if there’s no mouse available of course. To each their own I suppose.
Switch desktops? I can’t think of many that a mouse can’t do that I actually use.
First, two fingers to right click has been on literally every Windows or Linux touchpad enabled device I’ve ever encountered.
Second, three finger for middle click is also a regular thing that has existed on every Windows and Linux device I’ve ever encountered, but to this day takes a third party app to work on macos.
Please don’t act like the company actively hostile to power users is the one doing you favors.
Unix with a solid GUI on top
Automation built into the GUI, with a dedicated language or accessible via the API.
Thousands of third-party utils to tweak the UI, including tons of open-source ones because programmers love Mac for the Unix. Including stuff like Hammerspoon and Alfred, the likes of which Linux users have never seen.
“the company actively hostile to power users”
Apple haters are like a broken record.
the company actively hostile to power users
He’s out of line, but he’s got a point
Love the reference.
T.T
Ah but those Mac trackpads feel so nice. Still wouldn’t choose one over my ThinkPad but I’ve never used one I liked better than that on a Mac.
two fingers to right click has been on literally every Windows or Linux touchpad enabled device I’ve ever encountered.
Sounds like you haven’t been playing with computers very long cause it took almost a decade for Linux and Windows to add that. It wasn’t added till Windows 10, and Linux added synaptics drivers maybe a year before M$.
Like yeah synaptics had drivers or in 2007 ish but it wasn’t on every machine
Lol you’re just wrong. Typical Apple fanboy
I think the two finger right button tap has been there on all PC laptops I’ve used since the early 00s, even the lower mid range ones. Most of them have supported two finger scrolling anywhere on the trackpad but a few only did one finger along the edges like the 90s, along with customizable corners and zones and whatnot. Gestures and three finger tap for middle button or other functionality though was random until mid 2010s when it too was widely supported. That is, if we are speaking brand laptops and not junk OEMs or low end garbage.
Thinkpads got it right with the physical mouse buttons above the touchpad.
Bring back the nipple! (xkcd 243)
It left? Mine’s got one and it’s fairly recent.
You’re growing nipples?
usually you can also double tap then hold to do a click and drag if you didn’t know that
Three fingers for middle click. Four fingers to make it squirt.
Wait until you realise you can side scroll, go backwards, change desktop, use the application switcher!
I use a dedicated track pad on my desktop PC instead of a mouse, specifically because of that stuff! Unless you’re playing an FPS game or something, mice are just so kludgy and limited by comparison!
That’s how I like to do your Mom also.
