Questions tagged [trackpad]
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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Is there any way to rotate a magic trackpad?
I want to use my magic trackpad while it's rotated, as if in 'portrait' mode.
I can't find any option to make it work like this, unlike a display Rotation option.
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Disable trackpad feedback? Don't want any tactile/haptic feedback when clicking
Can I completely disable the haptic feedback from my 2015 MacBook Pro with Retina's trackpad?
I want to click without any kind of vibration/feedback.
Ideally it should feel like (as I imagine it ...
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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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'Show scroll bars' stuck on Always
At one point, I connected a USB mouse to my MacBook Pro, which caused the scroll bars to always be shown in every app. This was despite my settings in Appearance.prefpane where ‘Show scroll bars’ was ...
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Trackpad (+ spotlight) semi-unresponsive, Mavericks on a 2010 MBP
Ever since I upgraded my 2010 Macbook Pro from Mountain Lion to Mavericks, an issue has been occuring at seemingly random moments. Without warning, my trackpad will no longer allow me to click or use ...
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Apple Force Touch - How do I make it feel like the old tap-to-click?
I just purchased a new Macbook Pro with Force Touch.
I’m used to the old tap-to-click feature. Force Touch does not feel the same – it requires a much harder press even with “Click” sensitivity set ...
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unload kext when it is in use or retained (cannot unload)
I want to disable the trackpad on my laptop without a mouse connected. I need this strange functionality because I use synergy (https://symless.com/synergy/) and game with my desktop.
This is what I ...
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Pinch to zoom broken in Yosemite
I had pinch to zoom working fine after installing Yosemite but after a month or so it's stopped working. The setting is enabled in Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom and it seems none of those gestures are ...
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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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Disabling the trackpad from the command line
How can I disable the trackpad (without restarting my computer) from the command-line on OS X Mavericks?
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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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Degeneration of Macbook Pro trackpad performacne / janky cursor movement
I have Macbook Pro 2009 model. I have been travelling with it in tropics and slowly trackpad performance has gotten worse and worse, to the point it is almost unusable.
The symptoms
Mouse pointer ...
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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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Make Solid-state scrolling trackpad behave like Multi-Touch trackpad
I am using an early 2009 MacBook.
Is there any way or any APP that can make Solid-state scrolling trackpad on my MacBook behave like Multi-Touch trackpad
Solid-state scrolling trackpad supports two-...
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How can I change the scrolling direction of the mouse, independently of the trackpad? [duplicate]
In System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom, there is a checkbox called Scroll Direction: Normal, which allows us to change the scrolling direction of the trackpad, but it also changes ...
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How to disable trackpad clicks while typing
Is there a way to completely disable mouse clicks while typing (including from external trackpads)? The old option 'Ignore accidental touches while typing' which is apparently enabled by default now ...
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Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad 2 are recognized as Mighty Mouse
Just got a new Magic Keyboard, Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Trackpad in the mail.
I am running OS X El Capitan; plugged them in and everything was fine. However they are not recognized as "Magic" devices. ...
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Why do I have to double click right mouse button to get the pop-up menu
It happens after I get a new macbook for work. This is a Macbook Pro(Retina, 2012) with OS X Yosemite. I created a new user, and checked 'click or tap with two fingers' for the 'Secondary click'. ...
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Disable trackpad handwriting keyboard shortcut without disabling Chinese keyboard input?
In the Keyboard Shortcuts preference pane, this is the one shortcut that can't be disabled. It's disabled if you turn off Chinese keyboard input, but I want to keep the keyboard input.
I got ...
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2015 13" MacBook Pro Trackpad and Keyboard stop working
Recently the keyboard and trackpad on my 2015 13" MacBook Pro have stopped working. This is the second laptop to do this, the same issue happened about 6 months ago and Apple gave me a new one when ...
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MacBook Pro Trackpad Suddenly Stopped Working Completely
The trackpad on my Macbook Pro of 2 years has suddenly stopped working out of blue.
The trackpad doesn't move, respond to any gestures nor do any clicks work. This is really frustrating as I used ...
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What options are there for dealing with MacBook Pro palm rejection problem?
The trackpad in relation to the keyboard on all recent MacBook Pros (at least 2019 on) is either misplaced or too large (or both), creating a lot of palm-rejection problems.
Background: When placing ...
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How to put Magic Trackpad 2 into Discovery Mode
I have a Magic Trackpad 2. I previously had it paired with my Mac. I then had it set up to work with another computer. I now want to use it with my Mac again and it will not work.
I have followed ...
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Different speed for Magic Mouse and built-in trackpad
Is there any way to set different tracking speed for Magic Mouse and for built-in trackpad?
I'm using both, but Magic Mouse acts good for me at max tracking speed, but trackpad good for me at average ...
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How can I use the TrackPad's force touch as copy paste function in terminal?
Since MacBook Pro 2015, Apple introduced the "Force Touch" in the Track Pad. When you click it in the Terminal, by default it gives you dictionary/Wikipedia search results.
I would like to change it ...
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How to fix slow trackpad: OSX 10.12.2
I just installed the latest patch for Sierra, so am now on 10.12.2. Post-upgrade my pointer controlled through trackpad runs very slow when I open the laptop. I can fix it by opening System ...
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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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How can I make the trackpad (not mouse) significantly faster?
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I run a three screen setup and it takes forever to get from side to side when using the trackpad even when set to max in settings. I'm looking for (and thought I had found) a solution that ...
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Severe Bluetooth Connectivity Issues - OS X Yosemite+El Capitan
Ever since Yosemite, Bluetooth connectivity on my very modern MBP w/Retina has been absolute garbage. My workspace includes the Apple wireless keyboard + Magic Trackpad, and I usually am also using ...
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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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M1 MacBook Pro jumps text while typing
On the M1 MacBook Pro, when I am typing it will frequently jump to another part of the text area. This is most pronounced when selecting text using the keyboard (shift-left..., shift-option-left...) ...
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How to make Trackpad scroll only in one direction?
When I try to scroll a text view using the Trackpad moving my two finders in the the vertical direction, it also moves slightly in the horizontal direction, which makes the movement to appear jerky. ...
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Why does "Tap to click" not work in many games?
I have enabled "Tap to Click" in the trackpad options in OSX (10.9.2), but it doesn't work in many games that I play. Instead, I have to physically press the trackpad which is really inconvenient for ...
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Can Magic Trackpad tap to click be made to work inside Steam games?
I am notice some games using Apple Magic Trackpad do not respect tap to click as opposed to the physical button click. I run OS X 10.8.4 and specifically Endless Space running on Steam fails to ...
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Magic Trackpad 2 became less responsive
I've been happily using Magic Trackpad 2 for exactly a year and a week (suspicious ;)) and today it started acting strange - I'm using only three gestures mainly (dictionary lookup, two finger scroll ...
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How can I unstick my trackpad button?
The trackpad button on my 2007 Macbook Pro seems to be sticking. Specifically, it's stuck in the "down" position, which means I'm selecting pretty much everything all the time (you wouldn't believe ...
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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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Edge swipe gesture for opening Notification Center on macOS stopped working
Recently the edge swipe gesture for opening Notification Center stopped working on my MacBook Pro. It happened around the same time I upgraded to Catalina, but not sure if it's related. I also ...
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MacBook Pro keyboard and Trackpad not working. All solutions found have failed
I have a 13-inch early 2015 Macbook Pro with Retina display, and today the keyboard and trackpad stopped working completely. (I have OS X 10.11.5 if that's relevant. I can't update to sierra, as a ...
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How can I set the double-click speed in Lion with a multi-touch trackpad?
In Snow Leopard and earlier (or perhaps the difference was with the hardware; I don't know which as I updated my computer and OS simultaneously), there was a preference under Trackpad to change the ...
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How can I avoid accidental right-clicks now that the Macbook trackpad is so big?
I just bought a summer-2018 Macbook Pro, with a very big trackpad.
The result is that I frequently experience accidental right-clicks when I click but one of my other fingers is touching the trackpad....
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Keyboard and trackpad not working, SMC reset seems possible
I have a MacBook Pro, 13-inch, Mid 2009 with OS X 10.9.5.
I suspect two things that might have caused the trouble:
Recently I had to replace the keyboard. After replacing the keyboard everything ...
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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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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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Magic Trackpad 2 jumpy and erratic unless plugged in
Although the trackpad is fully charged, it's not working properly when not plugged in. Apple says to start in Safe mode but even that didn't work. I've tried turning off bluetooth then back on again. ...
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Right-click context menu appears slowly with two finger tap instead of two finger click
In order to right-click or secondary-click I have elected to use a two-finger tap, like so:
The problem is that it always takes at least a second for the contextual menu to show up, sometimes slower. ...
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How to specify what dictionaries should be used by click and press on trackpad?
When I hover on some word and force touch on it then some popup appears and there is the meaning of the selected word. Here is this popup:
How I can specify what dictionaries should be used by this ...
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macOS High Sierra: Can't use Mouse and MacBook Trackpad at the same time
Using a Mouse at the same time as being able to use the built-in Trackpad of a MacBook has worked in previous versions of macOS. But with macOS High Sierra, 10.13.0, they don't work in parallel ...
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Leave Apple Magic Trackpad 2 plugged in charging?
Is it okay to leave the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 (late 2015) plugged in via the Lightning cable?
Is the battery-charging smart about not over-charging/over-heating?
Are there any other pros or cons to ...
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OSX 10.9 - Two finger click for middle click?
I just got a new macbook (OSX 10.9), I used one previously (also recent OSX version) where I had 2-finger click to act as a middle click in firefox (open new tab, close tab, etc). I also had right ...
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