A touch-sensitive device for controlling a pointer on a computer's screen. It is similar to a mouse, but translates the motion of a user's finger to a relative position on a screen.
Questions tagged [trackpad]
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How to separate "mouse" and "trackpad" settings?
In System Preferences > Mouse there's a setting "Scroll direction: natural", which I don't like, so I unset. The problem is that this also unsets the setting for Trackpad, which I do like.
How can you have different settings for mouse and…
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Can't click with trackpad or mouse (OS X 10.9, MacBook Pro)
I have a new(ish) MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. When it boots up to the login screen it will let me move the cursor around, but it won't recognize click events.
I thought it was the trackpad, so I connected a wired mouse, and the symptoms…
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How to increase "tracking speed" beyond the maximum?
For a Macbook Pro, I've set trackpad settings for Three Fingers to "Dragging":
However the tracking speed is too slow, and often it's impossible to drag for a larger distance due to the size of the physical trackpad.
How do we increase the tracking…
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How to properly use drag and drop with MacBook Pro on OS X 10.7?
It seems extremely hard to be able to drag and drop files between two finder windows with a single move on the trackpad - as soon you reach the end of the trackpad you'll drop the files,… in the wrong place.
How can you solve the drag'n'drop problem…
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When I click on my terminal, strange characters appear
The problem I have happens after a ssh connection has been ended by closing my MacBook (putting it in stand-by mode). I come back and it's written broken pipe.
When I click on the terminal window, a succession of characters appear. If I click…
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Do iPhones have a built-in mouse or trackpad and how do I use it?
Quite some time ago someone told me (or maybe I read it) that iPhones have a built-in trackpad or mouse pointer that makes it easy for you to move the cursor around for editing text. I want to know if this is actually possible?
Right now my…
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El Capitan : How to disable Force Click "Dictionary Pop-ups" in Chrome?
In my Chrome Browser, whenever i "Force Click" (hard clicked by one finger) upon a Word, the dictionary lookup Pop-up is always popping out.
Like this:
I have already DISABLED the "Force Click" setting in the Trackpad Settings:
And then already…
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Macbook Pro TrackPad not clicking
I'm using a macbook pro, now the TrackPad could not be "clicked" when I press the bottom right corner.
I couldn't do the "right click" now.
This is awkward.
I know that in System Preference -> TrackPad, I could set the "Tap to click", but then I…
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How can I set a different scrolling direction for mouse and trackpad in Lion?
I want to give the new scrolling behavior in Lion a try (both on the built-in as well as on the magic trackpad).
But on my Mouse (a Logitech Anywhere MX), I don't want reverse scrolling. In preferences, it seems as if there were two different…
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How to select text with touchpad without pressing the "hard" key?
Now on OS X, when I want to select some text, I have to press the "hard" key on touchpad with thumb and drag through the text with another finger on touchpad. With linux on the same macbook pro, I could quickly touch the touchpad twice and start…
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Why does my Magic Trackpad 2 randomly disconnect and stop clicking?
Hey there fellow users,
I purchased an iMac (Retina 5K, 27-Inch, 2017, macOS 10.13.4, 4.2 GHz, 32GB, 3TB Fusion Drive) less than three weeks ago, and had it delivered by Apple here in distant, little New Zealand.
The iMac itself and extended Magic…
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MacBook Pro 15" Retina Mid 2015 Trackpad Not Clicking
The trackpad on my MacBook Pro stopped clicking. I was able to enable the tap to click feature, so I can click around using that, but it's annoying to expect a click and get nothing. It's like the trackpad doesn't depress at all.
I've done some…
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How to fix a Macbook Pro trackpad where the mouse pointer is randomly moving?
The trackpad on my Macbook Pro just started acting oddly. It's randomly clicking (which might cause me to switch programs), right-clicking and even once my screen even showed the swiping animation as if I was trying to switch to a different desktop.…
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How can I enable Trackpad tap-to-click for the login window in OS X 10.8?
In older OS X versions, this used to work just fine:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
It would enable tap to click for built-in MacBook Trackpads for the root user, which would also affect…
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Three-finger trackpad gesture on Mission Control and Expose not working in my Mac Pro
The trackpad gesture to call Mission Control or Expose with three-fingers does sometimes not work for some reasons. It works when I use four-fingers, and it functions as usual whenever I open my System Preferences and reset the Mission Control and…
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