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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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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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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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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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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 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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Why does OS X keep forgetting my trackpad settings
I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on an early 2010 15" MacBook Pro. After restarting from scratch (what I don't do often usually) my trackpad is set back to "click" instead of "touch".
This started ...
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How to map the bottom right Trackpad corner to right-click programmatically?
I’m looking for a command (defaults write …) to enable right-click by tapping the bottom right Trackpad corner.
This can be enabled as follows: System Preferences → Trackpad → Point & Click → ...
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How can I use Lion's “look up” feature without the trackpad?
Lion introduced the new "Double-tap with three fingers" to Look up, which pops up a small definition of whatever word you double-tap. Is there any way to invoke look up without the trackpad? For ...
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Unknown Menu poping up
I'm very new to Lion and I somehow managed to make a special menu appear when I was holding my fingers on the trackpad (like a long click).
It's round and I have never ever seen it before. I was ...
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Does Apple have a patent of their three finger drag feature? [closed]
I like Macbook's multi touch, especially three finger drag feature. It's very convenient to me.
I'd always like to use this feature in other laptops and OS. Except Apple, however, any other venders ...
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How to add custom mouse-click actions to Safari with modifier keys?
In Safari, when you Ctrl-click on an image in any web page, a menu comes up with several options.
I'd like to be able to do a single trackpad click with a modifier key (option or command, for ...
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Cursor selection behavior
When clicking something on the Mac screen, the cursor will
a) take up residence as directed,
If I click again, it will
b) select the whole word,
If I click again, it will
c) select the whole ...
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Disable mouse acceleration
Is there any way to disable mouse acceleration on a mac?
Mouse acceleration is what causes the mouse to move slowly when moving it a tiny bit, and a farther distance when moved fast. In other words, ...
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Select whole words using single finger tap gesture
If you double click a word to select it, and keep the mouse held down, you go it starts word selection mode, meaning it will select whole words as you move the mouse over them.
This only works when ...
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Toggle between applications via four finger gesture?
Currently, if you enable it, the four finger gesture popups a window that shows you the apps you can switch to, You can then select one of them using the mouse.
Is there any way to modify this ...
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How can I get my trackpad settings to work on the login screen?
I enabled the System Preferences > Trackpad > Tap to Click which causes it to work while I am logged in. However, in the login screen, it does not work. How can I get this setting enabled in the login ...
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Triple finger tap for middle click?
I can single tap my trackpad for a left click, and tap it with two fingers for a right click. Is there any way to bind a three finger tap to perform a middle click?
I tried MagicPrefs, but it's ...
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What's the difference between one finger dragging and drag lock?
If I go into Settings > Trackpad and enable Tap to click, I can enable the settings Dragging and Drag Lock.
What is the difference between these two settings?
It appears that they are doing the same ...
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Enable 3-finger swipe for home and end in Chrome
3-finger left and right swipes on my trackpad work in Chrome. They take me back one page in my history or right one page. However, 3-finger up and down swipes does not appear to be implemented.
In ...
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Scrolling Settings - “Throw”
I was trying to change my scrolling settings to keep the screen from scrolling when I take my hands off the touchpad. Right now, if I do a two-finger scroll, and take my fingers off the pad while ...
