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 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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The keyboard and trackpad on my MacBook Pro 3,1 stopped working. How to solve this problem?
The keyboard and trackpad on my macbook pro 3.1 stopped working after having frozen the operating system and reboot.
On my Mac I have Windows installed BootCamp and neither does the keyboard and ...
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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 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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Selecting a minimized window in Expose via the trackpad two finger swipe gesture
Normally when you invoke expose, you can use the trackpad's two finger swipe gestures (up, down, left, and right) to highlight a window so that it has a blue border around it. You can then select the ...
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Trackpad Gestures - Three-finger swipe unresponsive until I use two-finger scroll (OS X Lion)
Sometime within the last week or so, I noticed this really weird glitch with my trackpad. I have always used the three-finger swipe to navigate forwards and backwards on web browsers, between tabs in ...
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Built-In Trackpad and Keyboard Unresponsive after Sleep or Restart
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2008) that's currently running 10.7.3. I've been finding that it will intermittently freeze and then I have to shut down and restart the computer, but sometimes ...
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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 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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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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Mouse cursor jittery when hover state on browsers in OS X Lion
I recently upgraded to OS X Lion from Snow Leopard. One bug I've found is that in browsers (Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera), when you hover over any link, the cursor doesn't only change, it jitters ...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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MacBook Pro touchpad not clicking? (Hardware issue?)
My hands were a little wet when I touched the touchpad on my MacBook Pro 15". I think that a little water went into the cracks, or the tiny space around touchpad. The "click" mechanism stopped working ...
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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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Mouse sticks only when dropping with drag and drop.
I'm having a problem with dragging and dropping on my Mac. The icon is picked up, but it doesn't let go most of the time; it's almost as though I've still got the button down.
Please note: this only ...
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Using all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop
How is possible send all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop.app (ARD)?
Some working, some not, especially don't works gestures:
mission control (4 fingers up)
exposee (4 fingers down)
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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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Why is my Magic TrackPad losing functionality after Fast User Switching several times?
Basically, after using Fast User Switching to go back and forth between my wife's login and my own, we begin to experience loss of capactive touch functions on the Magic TrackPad. This occurred on ...
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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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Mouse pointer intermittently jumps to corner of screen
I recently got two new Macs, an iMac (with magic trackpad) and a MacbookAir (both the most recent models - mid 2011 and both with Lion). They are both suffering from the same issue so I don't think ...
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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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Macbook pro trackpad stops working after plugging in USB mouse in Windows 7 under bootcamp
We have a new Macbook Pro which we've installed Windows 7 under boot camp. We've also installed the drivers off the OSX CD.
When I plugged in a USB mouse the Trackpad stops working, which is fine ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Moving files in Finder with drag and drop opens a new window
I'm trying to move files around in Finder by using my trackpad to drag and drop files. The problem is that I'm using tap to click with dragging enabled. So, when I decide to drop the files onto a ...
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How can I set a different scrolling direction for mouse and trackpad in Lion?
I want to give the new scrolling behavior in Lion a try (both on the built-in as well as on the magic trackpad).
But on my Mouse (a Logitech Anywhere MX), I don't want reverse scrolling. In ...
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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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