Wait until I blow your mind and tell you about 3 finger drag.
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Framework laptops do this. Double finger tap is right click, triple finger tap is middle mouse button
wait until you find out what happens when you drag your sack across it.
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 donβt 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.
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
Wait until you hear about the key "Next Page"
My American keyboard has a "page down" key? It's still slower than the scroll bar sometimes. Seriously, sometimes I scroll through a multi-MiB text file.
tbf, Microsoft keeps fucking with my mouse drivers so the scroll wheel is erratic
Thinkpad nipple gang RISE UP!
It's called "the clit".
Oh man, my first laptop, ~~300 ish MHz thinkpad 600~~ 600 ish MHz thinkpad t20(ish). Man I loved that thing. Bought it with no hard drive, didn't know about bootleg windows, so I learned Linux. DSL, in fact. Those were the days.
Edit:
I've been trying to remember what exactly it was, I noticed the 600 has the drive on the front but mine was definitely on the side.
Best I can tell, I think it was a T20, not a 600. They look very similar.
Even the "buttonless" trackpad is better, than just fingertapping (I used to have so many misclicks).
Um, that's in the settings. Does nobody else obsessively adjust every setting when they get a new device? Just me?
I usually read the full manual too
I even what adjust settings I don't understand m sometimes I learn what it does. Sometimes I don't. I don't always liked making what it does
Depends on how you configure it. There are a whole bunch more settings. The options you've discovered are tap-to-click and two fingers for rightclick. See this here: https://wayland.freedesktop.org/libinput/doc/latest/configuration.html
Yeah the "guess where the clickable zone is" trend from smartphones turns out to actually not be that good. Multi-touch is a billion times better. There's a reason it's the default on Macs.
At least on smartphones there's some actual indications where it expects the zone to be. The touchpads with zero markings or boundaries to feel where the zones intended to be 'middle click' or 'right click' is just an absolute rough guess...
Mac trackpads are sooo fucking nice. Iβve used some very premium windows laptops, but nothing compares to how well Apple does it. Hate to shill, but itβs completely honest
That's how you right click on a Macbook.
And three fingers tapping is often a middle-click or wheel-click, which is often a shortcut for 'open in new tab' while browsing the web. On some linux systems it is also a shortcut for paste if in a text input field.
Middle click isn't a shortcut for paste in Linux, it's what Unix had before cut-copy-paste was invented.
Highlighted text will be stored in what's called the Primary Buffer. This is separate from the "clipboard." Middle clicking in a text entry field will insert the highlighted text. No action needs to be copied. Watch, on a linux system:
Open a GUI text editor. kwrite, gedit, libreoffice, whatever.
Highlight and Ctrl+C this text: This text was stored in the clipboard.
Simply highlight this text: This text was stored in the primary buffer.
click in your text editor and middle click. Then hit enter for a new line, then hit Ctrl+V. Neat, huh?
I really wish they would quit putting physical buttons under touchpads. Separate buttons are actually still useful. Putting them underneath interferes with the use of both the touchpad and the buttons.
Every touchpad I've ever used where the whole thing was a physical button, pushing it hard enough to click it would squish my finger skin enough to move the mouse pointer a little.
On tasks as basic as web browsing, where things like hyperlinks are actually quite small on the screen, that was often enough to move the cursor off the link. Or moving a volume slider, the process of letting go of the button would slightly move the cursor.
I like buttons on top of the touchpads, but that really only happens when they feel like they are doing buttons for a trackpoint instead of from the pad.
So still buttons, just not on the very bottom edge.
But even then, they keep deciding the touchpad is good enough to be buttons for the trackpoint, because I suppose people demand as large a trackpad as possible.
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
Every laptop I ever used had this, I'm still bewildered that people don't know. I actually like touchpads because they give you a bunch of gestures a mouse just can't
There are some gestures you can perform on a touchpad, but not on a mouse, but KDE on Linux supports mouse gestures as well. I don't think Windows, or even Mac, does though.
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I'm glad you know it now because its so helpful! These have been around 17 or so years I believe.
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