A touch-sensitive device for controlling a pointer on a computer's screen. It is similar to a mouse, but translates the motion of a user's finger to a relative position on a screen.
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How do I ignore accidental trackpad input on MBP with Windows?
I have a MacBook Pro running Windows 7 and the mouse pointer keeps jumping when I type because of my palm resting on the trackpad. The ignore accidental input option is checked in the Boot Camp ...
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Keyboard-trackpad combos for Mac, where the trackpad lies underneath the keyboard.
I am currently looking for a keyboard-trackpad combo for the Mac where the trackpad lies underneath beneath the keyboard (i.e. just like they would be on a Macbook; in fact the reason why I'm looking ...
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Trackpad gesture that minimizes all windows?
This has been driving me nuts for close to a year. I hope someone can tell me what triggers it. I've searched many times over several months and have never found any mention of it.
I use an MBP ...
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Can the Chinese trackpad handwriting input method be used with a graphics tablet?
On Macs with a multitouch trackpad, I'm told that from the Input Sources options you can select the option to draw Chinese and Japanese characters.
I have a Mac Mini, and a Wacom multitouch graphics ...
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How to disable the Trackpad zoom in Chrome or TextEdit
In Chrome or Textedit I always accidently end up zooming with the build-in trackpad on MBA with Mountain Lion. How do I disable the trackpad function for zooming in application specific.
Looking into ...
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Intermittently unresponsive keyboard and trackpad on Macbook Air
Especially since the 10.8.3 update, I've been experiencing occasional freezes of my 2012 Macbook Air's trackpad and keyboard. The trackpad will be completely unresponsive, and usually only a few ...
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Macbook Pro 2012 i7 - Keyboard/trackpad not working in Bootcamp
I have a 2012 Macbook Pro 15" Core I7 8gb ram and Nvidia 650M. I have been running bootcamp on it for over a month when last night my keyboard and trackpad stopped working after a reboot. I ...
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drop of water on mousepad of macbook pro and now the mouse is being odd?
I had wet hair and some drops of water landed on my trackpad. It happened on last friday or thursday, so like 4 or so days ago. And basically now my mouse will just randomly click on stuff and right ...
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How to right-drag using trackpad only, for Windows on MacBook
Is there ANY way -- either from Apple or via third party utility software -- to enable the built-in TrackPad on a MacBook Pro laptop to do a real "right-click drag" function?
Note I'm asking for ...
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Three-finger swipe between pages unresponsive
After upgrading to Mountain Lion I'm always having to two-finger scroll up or down at least once before I can three-finger swipe between pages. It's as if I have to "re-activate" the gesture every ...
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MBP trackpad/keyboard unresponsive after application crash
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I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro 13" (non-retina) equipped with 6GB RAM.
Recently, I have noticed that when an application crashes and Crash Reporter appears, the trackpad and keyboard do not ...
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MacBookPro trackpad is on crack!
It's as if an alien entity has commandeered the trackpad, and it highlights things when it has not been asked to do so; the mouse jumps erratically all over the place, AND opens up random windows ...
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Trackpad working poorly on Macbook, why?
I have a Macbook 2007. It has worked very well until now, the trackpad does not respond at all, it simply stopped working. How can I debug this?
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How to disable long touch = click on MacBook Air touchpad?
If I leave my mouse in one spot for several seconds with my finger on the touch pad, it interprets it as a downclick. So if I hover over a file while thinking about something and then move my cursor, ...
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keyboard shortcuts vs gestures [closed]
New mac user here. I really like the feel of my new macbook air. I'm starting to try out the multi touch gestures and I admit they're pretty neat. However, I'm still not convinced they're better ...
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Gesture for screen zoom
I often use the ctrl+two-finger-swipe screen zoom feature in OS X. Now that I've upgraded to a device with a multitouch trackpad, it would be great if I could do this one-handed, instead of using my ...
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Non-smooth scrolling pdf with trackpad in Preview with 10.8
Finally upgraded to Mountain Lion and I am noticing an annoying behavior in Preview. When I two-finger scroll too quickly with my 2009 MBP trackpad, the scrolling is jerky and can skip many pages in a ...
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Two-way scroll on magic trackpad on Windows 7
Using the bootcamp drivers, I am able to use an Apple Magic Trackpad on my PC running Windows 7. Everything seems to work fine. When I'm in Google Chrome (and other applications), I can use the ...
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Trackpad not working on Macbook pro 2009 running Windows 8
I have a MacBook Pro 17" early 2009 running Snow Leopard, I've recently upgraded Windows 7 running on the bootcamp partition to Windows 8.
All works fine apart from the trackpad.
Bootcamp 3.1 is ...
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Has Mountain Lion broken the ability to show Desktop with a gesture, begin dragging an icon, and unshow the Desktop?
I have just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Despite my initial concerns relating to the new gestures, I am actually getting on pretty well and many of the new features are welcome.
I do ...
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Disfunctional trackpad on 2007 Macbook
I have a 2007 white Macbook here, of which the trackpad gradually became less responsive to the point where you can't press it down anymore at all. Neither the left nor the right button will ...
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Cannot disable three finger tap look up after migrating to a new computer
I recently moved to a new MacbookPro and migrated my old computer's files/settings over to the new one.
For some reason I am unable to disable the ability to look up the definition to a word by using ...
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First click doesn't register?
For some reason, from time to time, I'll have this issue where the first time I click something, nothing will happen. But, the second time I click the exact same spot, it will work as normal. This ...
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Emulated dragging with BetterTouchTool on an old MacBook
Is there any way to get BetterTouchTool to support dragging with an emulated mouse button? So far I've only been able to map a modifier + click combination to a single click.
Or is there another free ...
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Increase sensitivity of Trackpad?
I currently have the sensitivity level to the max, but I still feel its kind of slow for my liking. Is there a way I can make the trackpad on my rMBP even more sensitive ?
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rMBP - Keyboard + trackpad unresponsive at random, reboot fixes
I've had this issue twice today and is troubling me a bit. As the title already summaries; without notice, the keyboard and trackpad seem to get unresponsive. The system is actually still running ...
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How do I re-enable double tap to highlight on my trackpad?
I recently did a fresh install of 10.8. Prior to this install, I could rapidly tap twice on my touchpad and, on the second tap, drag the pointer to highlight text. Now, with this new install, that ...
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Apple Magic Trackpad tap to click is not working inside games!
I am trying to play some games using Apple Magic Trackpad (for example Endless Space) and I realized that tap to click is not working inside games.
The only click that works inside games is the click ...
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How to disable the MacBook trackpad click but keep the tap enabled?
I have a 3-year-old Mac and either the battery or something else is broken (does not matter because it's not worth fixing) and due to this the trackpad keeps getting stuck.
Now my question is: can I ...
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After my MacBook Pro sleeps some gestures don't work anymore
When I wake my MacBook Pro (mid 2012 - with Mountain Lion) from sleep, sometimes some complicated gesture doesn't work anymore with the Trackpad or Magic Mouse.
Changing screens (with 4 fingers with ...
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How to map touchpad to screen?
Touchpad shape is more or less like to the screen shape. Isn't there a way to map each position on touchpad to the position of mouse on the screen, so you simply tap at any point on the touchpad and ...
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My macbook pro trackpad's right side doesn't go down when pressed
When I click the right side of the trackpad it doesn't press down. It's stuck, but the left of the button works perfectly. What's the issue here and how do I fix this?
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How to fix a Macbook Pro trackpad where the mouse pointer is randomly moving?
The trackpad on my Macbook Pro just started acting oddly. It's randomly clicking (which might cause me to switch programs), right-clicking and even once my screen even showed the swiping animation as ...
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Why don't older Macbooks support multi-touch?
Why don't older Macbooks (Macbooks with a physical button on them, I think up until 2008) support multi-touch when upgraded to an operating system that supports it?
They are able to distinguish two ...
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Dragging objects with MacBook Pro touch area
To drag a window on a Windows laptop I could put my mouse in the title bar area of the window, double tap and hold the second tap down (instead of letting off). As long as I hold this down I can drag ...
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No one- and two-finger tap in Better Touch Tool?
I'm trying to get my three-finger tap to middle-click functionality in Mountain Lion since MiddleClick seems to have been broken in the upgrade. However, in order to let BTT react to tap gestures, ...
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What drivers should I install to use the trackpad “two finger swipe” on Windows 7 running under VirtualBox?
I'm using Oracle VirtualBox to run several VMs on my MacBook and am unable to use the trackpad to "two finger swipe" to the previous webpage under Win 7.
I'm guessing this is a driver issue.
Since ...
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How to get the three finger 'scroll to top' back in mountain lion?
Remember in Snow Leopard there was a gesture using three fingers to scroll to the top of webpages? Has anyone worked out a way of getting that back?
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Sudden failure of trackpad to function without 'tap to click' set
This is an odd problem to have.
I use 'tap to click' usually. This continues to work as it always had.
I went to install Mountain Lion, fresh install. This meant I needed to be in the Recovery Mode.
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Alter inertia scrolling behaviour in Mountain Lion
I like how with inertia scrolling you can swipe harder to scroll further down the page, but what I don't like is how the scrolling speeds up quite a bit as you scroll. This was not the behavior in ...
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How can I enable Trackpad tap-to-click for the login window in OS X 10.8?
In older OS X versions, this used to work just fine:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
It would enable tap to click for built-in MacBook ...
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rMBP Trackpad slips when trying to scroll?
Hello I just got my first ever MBP Retina and I was wondering if this is normal :
Sometimes I try to scroll upwards or downwards (natural way) and the mouse moves instead of scrolling the page up and ...
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Can I disable the trackpad on a MacBook Pro?
I have a mid-2007 MacBook Pro, the one with the trackpad that had the physical button on along the bottom edge. The trackpad is not well and using it can cause it to stick and freak out OS X.
Is ...
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How to disable three-finger tap word lookup?
Just upgraded to Mac OS X Mountain Lion, and I'm loving it so far.
One thing I don't care for though is that now, three-finger tapping links—or anything, for that matter—brings up popups with the ...
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Why does my cursor on Mac OS X get “stuck” sometimes?
In Mac OS X, sometimes when the cursor should change to a text cursor or hand cursor, it is still displayed as an arrow cursor. This gets annoying sometimes because although it still works, it makes ...
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iMac 10.6.8 pointing fail with Bluetooth enabled
10.6 Aluminum iMac w/wireless keyboard and trackpad.
Working fine long-term, no recent change to the h/w or system software.
All of a sudden pointing started operating as if permanently in ...
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Trackpad firmware doesn't update and now stopped working (Lion & MacBook 13" Unibody)
I bought an oldish MacBook 13" Unibody (late 2008) and when I got it one of the first things I did was to install Mac OS X Lion.
Everything was working fine, until I applied an update that made the ...
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Trackpad auto opening files automatically as if double-clicked
Macbook Pro 2010 - OS X 10.6.8
This is very frustrating. Any fix for automatically opening files etc while scrolling?
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Pinch to Zoom on Macbook Pro 2007
I have an early 2007 Macbook Pro. The trackpad isn't multitouch - it doesn't support any of Lion's new many-finger gestures - but it does support two-finger scrolling. It obviously can keep track of ...
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Using the home (house) button in Logitech K400 keyboard
I've just bought the Logitech K400 keyboard/trackpad combo. The volume buttons above the keyboard works just fine. But the home button (that has a small "house" icon) doesn't do anything on OS X Lion.
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