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€“] 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€“] 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Pinch to zoom on images and browsers, swiping left and right to go forward or back in a browser, switching virtual desktops

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Yep, the mouse needs the keyboard for most of those.

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    You have your hand there pretty much by default. If you're doing anything you're using it for shortcuts anyway.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    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.

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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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