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Do you use the trackpad tap feature?

Do you use the track pad for clicking??

  • Yes

    Votes: 23 46.9%

  • No

    Votes: 26 53.1%

  • What are you talking about?

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    49
prostuff1

prostuff1

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Jul 29, 2005
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Don't step into the kawoosh...
I have been trying to switch some windows users so i have been letting the use my laptop.

The one thing that i have noticed is that they all want to use the trackpad for clicking. So, do you have the feature turned on?

I don't and really can't stand it. Every time i try to move the mouse really fast i end up clicking and dragging or some other thing that i did not want to do.
 
I've got it turned on... sometimes I use it, sometimes I don't.

The part that gets me is when I switch to a Windows laptop (or Windows under Boot Camp) and I try to two-finger scroll. THAT'S confusing.
 
My ibook g3 doesn't even have the trackpad scroll thing.. even if It did (my ibook g4 will) I probally wont use it much becuase I usually feel more comfortable using external USB mice..
 
macEfan said:
My ibook g3 doesn't even have the trackpad scroll thing.. even if It did (my ibook g4 will) I probally wont use it much becuase I usually feel more comfortable using external USB mice..
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Tap is available on all trackpads -- System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Trackpad tab -> Trackpad Gestures -> Clicking

If you do this, a tap on the surface of the trackpad is a click. You need alternate means to get scrolling and right mouse button taps. Sidetrack or iScroll might work on that iBook....(edit: iScroll2, which is free, may or may not work -- not sure. But Sidetrack, which is not, definitely should).
 
mkrishnan said:
Tap is available on all trackpads -- System Preferences -> Keyboard & Mouse -> Trackpad tab -> Trackpad Gestures -> Clicking

If you do this, a tap on the surface of the trackpad is a click. You need alternate means to get scrolling and right mouse button taps. Sidetrack or iScroll might work on that iBook....(edit: iScroll2, which is free, may or may not work -- not sure. But Sidetrack, which is not, definitely should).
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HOLY CRAP!
I've have my pb for 5 months now and the only thing that was bugging me is that it didnt have the trackpad tap thing like my pc laptop did!!!! ahh Thank you so much for posting that!!
 
I have enabled also, and use a hybrid of both the tap and the button for clicking. It is a very handy feature. It isnt as loud as the button either.

Also, thankyou mkrishnan for the program suggestions for enabling scrolling! :)
 
Shamus said:
I didnt even know that existed. That is so cool :)
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Just to be a show-off...

...and because it is my destiny to veer threads ever off topic...

...with Google.com, you can limit your search to any site on the internet by using the term site:xxx -- so if you specify:

"trackpad tap" site:macrumors.com

You will get only the subset of Google hits for the phrase "trackpad tap" that occur here at MR. If you specify:

"republican agenda" site:nytimes.com

You will get hits for the phrase at the Times.

You want to use only the top level portion of the domain name -- macrumors.com, nytimes.com, cnn.com -- because otherwise you will exclude components of a site (e.g. "trackpad tap" site:www.macrumors.com returns nothing).

:)
 
mkrishnan said:
Just to be a show-off...

...and because it is my destiny to veer threads ever off topic...

...with Google.com, you can limit your search to any site on the internet by using the term site:xxx -- so if you specify:

"trackpad tap" site:macrumors.com

You will get only the subset of Google hits for the phrase "trackpad tap" that occur here at MR. If you specify:

"republican agenda" site:nytimes.com

You will get hits for the phrase at the Times.

You want to use only the top level portion of the domain name -- macrumors.com, nytimes.com, cnn.com -- because otherwise you will exclude components of a site (e.g. "trackpad tap" site:www.macrumors.com returns nothing).

:)
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Wow, I did not know that...thanks!
 
I dont use it because it drives me out of my mind when i am playing ut2k4 and i tap the pad on accident when jumping. i suppose if i used it all the time i would get used to it...I do notice that people that switch from wintel laptops tend to look for that feature almost instinctively.
 
I don't use it because it takes too much energy to have to lift my finger off the trackpad and tap it back onto it. It's much easier to keep my finger on the trackpad, thumb on the button, and never have to lift up anything. :)
 
I use the tap feature all the time! It's so cool!

My brother doesn't, though.. He always taps by accident.. I don't understand!!
 
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