El Capitan - Touchpad one-finger dragging?

[fessen]

I haven't seen that anyone else has asked about this, so I am assuming I am missing something that should be pretty obvious. Anyway ...

I am upgrading a 2009 MBP from Snow Leopard to El Capitan.

How do you activate one-finger dragging for the touchpad? This was an option in Snow Leopard's System Preferences window (screencap attached), but I don't see it in El Capitan.

 

[Shirasaki]

If you use one finger to press and hold on trackpad while mouse cursor is on title bar of a Window, you would be able to do "one finger dragging".
But if you want to find an alternative way to do so in El Capitan, there is a "three finger tap to move" gesture.
And if what I remembered was correct, you can find an option called "tap to hold".
Maybe, you can find something more from accessibility panel.

 

[jackeill]

If you use one finger to press and hold on trackpad while mouse cursor is on title bar of a Window, you would be able to do "one finger dragging".
But if you want to find an alternative way to do so in El Capitan, there is a "three finger tap to move" gesture.
And if what I remembered was correct, you can find an option called "tap to hold".
Maybe, you can find something more from accessibility panel.

Does it mean that it is always on? I have it always off right now as Apple clearly doesn't know how to implement that properly. When one finger dragging is enabled there is noticeable lag for EVERY left-tap (and it's been like this forever). Strange that in this case Microsoft always had it implemented properly - no lag in Windows.

 

[Shirasaki]

Does it mean that it is always on? I have it always off right now as Apple clearly doesn't know how to implement that properly. When one finger dragging is enabled there is noticeable lag for EVERY left-tap (and it's been like this forever). Strange that in this case Microsoft always had it implemented properly - no lag in Windows.

Well, if you refer to one finger move, it is probably gone in El Capitan.
But if you refer to three-finger move, you can close it.
And, as I may know, trackpad gesture has changed quite a lot from Yosemite, or even mavericks.

 

[fessen]

If you use one finger to press and hold on trackpad while mouse cursor is on title bar of a Window, you would be able to do "one finger dragging".
But if you want to find an alternative way to do so in El Capitan, there is a "three finger tap to move" gesture.
And if what I remembered was correct, you can find an option called "tap to hold".
Maybe, you can find something more from accessibility panel.

It's hidden in accessibility panel. Thanks.

 

[Shirasaki]

It's hidden in accessibility panel. Thanks.

No worries.