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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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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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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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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Set different double click times for physical click and trackpad double-tap
When clicking my trackpad physically, I want the double click speed to be as fast as possible. When using the tap-to-click feature, though, I want it to be a tiny bit slower. Is there any way to set ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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I have to use increasing force to push my 'select and drag' feature on my macbook pro. Help?
I'm having to use more and more pressure with my right thumb to get the select and drag feature of my trackpad to work. Is there anything I can do to try to fix this before I have to spend tons of ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Why doesn't trackpad work in Preview or TextEdit?
I open a PDF document. It's a document I've created. I have my trackpad set on "tap to click" from the trackpad system preferences. Right now the tap with one finger doesn't work when I have the ...
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Macbook Pro 13 mouse freezes after wake up
I have a Macbook Pro 13" bought in December which means it is the latest available version.
(MacBookPro8,1 , 2,4 Ghz Intel Core i5, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384 MB)
I have problems ...
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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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Enable multi touch feature in windows7
I've installed a windows7 with BootCamp 3.2 64-bit on my macbook pro but multi touch feature is not enables in trackpad and magic mouse.
Is it possible to enable features like zoom, or moving ...
