This is so much easier than pressing hard on the bottom side of the touchpad why did no one tell me this was a thing 😭😭
I’m glad you know it now because its so helpful! These have been around 17 or so years I believe.
Pretty sure my Lenovo had this in 2003, lol.
It depends on the laptop and which touchpad they use.
Three fingers for middle click. Four fingers to make it squirt.
Um, that’s in the settings. Does nobody else obsessively adjust every setting when they get a new device? Just me?
It’s been on Apple products for a solid 20 years. On the PC side it totally depends on the hardware and drivers to support multi-touch
First, two fingers to right click has been on literally every Windows or Linux touchpad enabled device I’ve ever encountered.
Second, three finger for middle click is also a regular thing that has existed on every Windows and Linux device I’ve ever encountered, but to this day takes a third party app to work on macos.
Please don’t act like the company actively hostile to power users is the one doing you favors.
Unix with a solid GUI on top
Automation built into the GUI, with a dedicated language or accessible via the API.
Thousands of third-party utils to tweak the UI, including tons of open-source ones because programmers love Mac for the Unix. Including stuff like Hammerspoon and Alfred, the likes of which Linux users have never seen.
“the company actively hostile to power users”
Apple haters are like a broken record.
Not sure what you’re getting at - it looks like you’re quoting something?
I use mac every day for work, and I do like that it is based on Unix, but the desktop/GUI is a nightmare, and the fact you have to use “thousands of third-party utils to tweak the UI” or use hammerspoon or Alfred instead of having options to do regular shit is a downside, and in corporate settings sometimes people aren’t even able to install 3rd party utils, which case they’re just SoL
So, you’ve been telling me that I don’t need Hammerspoon in Linux to do things. Tell me, in Linux Mint, how do I monitor the current app and invoke a certain background command when a particular app is focused or when it’s closed. You’re claiming that this is possible out of the box.
Wait until you realize you can smooth scroll with 2 fingers.
The amount of laptop users I see using a mouse to scroll webpages is exhausting. And I don’t mean the mouse wheel, I mean clicking and holding the down arrow in the browser.
I have colleagues that keep dragging the little block in the sidebar.
That is significantly easier, more accurate, and somehow faster than the arrow.
Believe it or not, those scrollbars used to be way bigger, not autohide, and look solid and three dimensional. I miss those days.
I remember those bars but I alsof remember discovering scroll wheel click and never looked back.
Hey, sometimes the scroll bar is better. Like when you’re looking at a mile-long document and looking for the one part you care about
Have you tried scroll wheel click?