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 ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ญ

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[โ€“] 60 points 1 month ago (55 children)

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

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  • [โ€“] 57 points 1 month ago (29 children)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 month ago (25 children)
  • [โ€“] 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)
    • two finger swipe
    • three finger swipe
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  • [โ€“] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yeah, two finger scrolling seems quite universal. Three fingers switch between virtual desktops on my system (Gnome).

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    It can also trigger overview if done upwards

    On kde you need 4 fingers for that instead of 3 for some reason

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Your mouse has alt and tab keys?

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  • I wish either my mouse or my numpad had a Tab key. I use a trackball, so I tend not to move my whole arm around the desk, I've gotten to where I'll strike my numpad enter key without lifting my hand off the mouse.

    For a lot of things, I wish there was a Tab key on that side of the keyboard.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    On macOS you can do all kinds of crazy shit with gestures. Using a mouse feels very obsolete and slows everything way down.

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    Show/hide desktop, open window manager, open app drawer, scroll in all 4 directions, zoom in and out, you can press and then press harder for more functions sometimes

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 1 month ago

    Most of those I do with a keyboard trivially. Personally, I don't see the benefit. Keyboard shortcuts are superior 99% of the time, and KDE supports mouse gestures as well (though I don't use them), so you don't even need a track pad for most of them.

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  • Yeah swipping between screens or forward backward in the browser up and down the browser page, used to be 4 fingers up to mission control and I can't remember all of them. It really did make movement pretty fluid. Now they do a thing that I believe is only integrated to Apple apps where if you are signed into your Apple account you can continue between devices fairly simply. Like if you have an email/texg open on the iPhone and walk up to your Mac an icon appears on the dock far right with a phone symbol, you tap it and it opens the mail/messages/safari app to where you were and wrap what you were doing. I believe it does the opposite as well by opening the phone, going to app switcher and the active app on the Mac will be an option to continue on the iPhone

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 month ago (1 child)

    There are some gestures you can perform on a touchpad, but not on a mouse, but KDE on Linux supports mouse gestures as well. I don't think Windows, or even Mac, does though.

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  • Mac had gestures for both trackpad and their "magic" mouse. I've never bought an Apple product for myself, but I have repaired and worked on many in the past and I'll say their trackpad has been great for years. That said the top of it used to be a glass, so when you'd do repairs they actual install instructions would have you tear a sticky note/paper and put them between all the edges to set it in the center then pull them out to ensure it was centered and wouldn't crack by hitting the edge.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 1 month ago (22 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    the company actively hostile to power users

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

    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

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 1 month ago

    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.

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