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Software Update Brings Inertial Scrolling and Three-Finger Drag Gesture to Recent Apple Notebooks
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"Flick" with two fingers as you would normally scroll. Trackpad notices momentum. Inertia *check*
***Problem is Fixed now*** I had rechecked the dragging box, but it still wasn't functioning. Started working again after 2 reboots ****
Now with this three finger drag gesture... I have 3 finger still set to "swipe to navigate" and I can no longer Tap + hold on a window to drag it. I have to physically click the trackpad in order to drag a window around or a file. I know it is a small detail but I rarely physically click my trackpad, and use taps instead.
Anyone else having this same problem? I DID however, enable the 3 finger drag briefly to try it out, but then switched back to swipe to navigate. I found it odd that the tap + hold didn't work while the 3 finger drag was enabled. Just because you can use 3 finger drag, why not still allow the other method?
So now I have to physically click in order to drag anything?
*edit* to clarify, what I mean by tap + hold is - 1 tap of the trackpack followed immediately by another tap that I do not release, then drag my finger around without lifting it. This worked prior to the update.
Perhaps I should try rebooting...
Now with this three finger drag gesture... I have 3 finger still set to "swipe to navigate" and I can no longer Tap + hold on a window to drag it. I have to physically click the trackpad in order to drag a window around or a file. I know it is a small detail but I rarely physically click my trackpad, and use taps instead.
Anyone else having this same problem? I DID however, enable the 3 finger drag briefly to try it out, but then switched back to swipe to navigate. I found it odd that the tap + hold didn't work while the 3 finger drag was enabled. Just because you can use 3 finger drag, why not still allow the other method?
So now I have to physically click in order to drag anything?
*edit* to clarify, what I mean by tap + hold is - 1 tap of the trackpack followed immediately by another tap that I do not release, then drag my finger around without lifting it. This worked prior to the update.
Perhaps I should try rebooting...
Even if it did, not worth it IMO. I use three fingers for navigation (Safari back/forward) far more than I would want to move a window.
Depend on how many windows you have open. I stuck with navigation, since I'm almost always on Safari or iTunes. No need for me to move windows around, especially with Expose and the like.
I quit after 20 minutes and forced it off. Zapped PRAM and rebooted.
Seems like it worked.
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http://inertial.keeener.com/
Maybe try this? I used it before the native inertial scroll came out. Not sure if it will work on your MB or not...
Sorry to quote myself, but can somebody who has installed the update confirm whether their trackpad displays the same behaviour as mine? I don't want my post to get lost since there are so many quick responses to the front page items.
I'm curious as to how many people prefer to "Tap" to click their trackpad, or physically click it...
Personally, I'm a clicker, and have tap-to-click always disabled.
Personally, I'm a clicker, and have tap-to-click always disabled.
Scrolling on heavy web pages can be laggy on a Mac
I'm curios how does this work in practice?
Especially since Safari five, websites with a lot of Flash elements seem to be more heavy (laggier) to scroll than before.
This is one thing I really think Windows does better even on a quite weak machine even heavy sites usually scroll smooth whereas on a Mac it can be quite some struggle (depending on the page of course).
I guess there's better (more optimized) graphics drivers on the Windows side of things.
I'm curios how does this work in practice?
Especially since Safari five, websites with a lot of Flash elements seem to be more heavy (laggier) to scroll than before.
This is one thing I really think Windows does better even on a quite weak machine even heavy sites usually scroll smooth whereas on a Mac it can be quite some struggle (depending on the page of course).
I guess there's better (more optimized) graphics drivers on the Windows side of things.
No. It's the same two-fingers to initiate scrolling, but if you 'flick', the scrolling will continue at a speed based on how fast you 'flicked'.
Three-finger dragging is where you tap with 3-fingers, then drag the object. It seems to work with anything draggable and (IMO) works far better than tap-drag.
Macbook Pro 15" Late 2008
According to the article it shouldn't support the three finger drag gesture - well I just installed it and after changing the gesture from navigation to drag it works fine?
Inertial scrolling is great - at last!
According to the article it shouldn't support the three finger drag gesture - well I just installed it and after changing the gesture from navigation to drag it works fine?
Inertial scrolling is great - at last!
Tap-click, always. It's reliable, responsive, and quiet.
Before this update, I would only use the physical click when dragging was required. But, with 3-finger dragging, I won't need it at all.
For me at least, I think it is a carry over from when the trackpad buttons were seperate from the actual trackpad. I could enable tap to click and wherever my finger was, just tap, instead of having to click the other button. (edit* also I'm talking about non mac notebooks, as my MBP is my first and has the current trackpads)
I had tap to click enabled, but I'm still having the issue I described.