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[–] [email protected] 107 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (54 children)

Guilty of this. I've never used a track pad that didn't feel like complete ass.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 5 months ago (24 children)

I've never used a PC one that I liked, but Macs have superb ones. They are so good I now get trackpads for every desktop I work on too (home + work).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

They're great, now if apple could concede that right click is an important thing that's not going away and not relegate it to a corner barely larger than my finger then they'd be perfect.

EDIT: I forgot the default way to right click on Mac is two finger click, I changed it in the settings when I first got it to be click in the bottom right. If you've gotten used to two finger click good on you, but point still stands for us who like the "right" way.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I’m not sure I understand your complaint – if you two-finger tap anywhere on an Apple trackpad made since around 2009, it’s interpreted as a right-click.

Reply to edit: “I forgot that I changed it to make it worse and I’m mad at Apple about it” is maybe the most Lemmy comment I’ve ever read

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not an Apple user, and curious: If you double click a movie file it does not open it but gives you the menu? How do you open it? Triple click? Or one click? If one, how do you just mark it?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Clicking once with 2 fingers on the pad is what they meant

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anything you do while touching the trackpad with one finger at a time is the same as though you were using a mouse. Tap once to select, tap and drag to move, double tap to open.

If you tap with two fingers on the pad at the same time, it reacts as if you’ve right-clicked. I usually use my index and middle finger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Interesting, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah, I changed it so long ago I forgot that's the default. Changed it to bottom right corner in the settings when I first got it since I am used to windows laptops, but the area for the bottom right corner that apple designates is very small.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, that's easy to miss since Apple removed the super helpful tutorial shorts in the touchpad settings. The new menu is less clear imo.

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