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The Trackpoint seems redundant to me because I can manipulate the trackpad with my thumb without leaving the home row, and for me it's faster and more comfortab
by KerrickStaley 4y ago
The Trackpoint seems redundant to me because I can manipulate the trackpad with my thumb without leaving the home row, and for me it's faster and more comfortable than a Trackpoint.
Using your thumb to control the trackpad works better on Mac laptops because the Force Touch trackpad allows you to press anywhere to click. Most PC laptops have a "diving board" click mechanism which means it gets progressively harder to click the further you are from the bottom, and clicking near the top is impossible. Also, Mac laptops position the top of the trackpad closer to the keyboard than other laptops I've seen.
You can use tap-to-click as a work-around for being unable to click the top of the trackpad, but I find tap-to-click less usable for other reasons.
- sryie 4y agoIs there a way to middle click with this method? I use that often for new tabs and ThinkPads have the physical button at the top and tap to click is just three fingers.
- innocenat 4y agoIf it's only for open in new tab, then Ctrl+Left Click work as well when using trackpad.
- fendy3002 4y agoMiddle click is very useful to close tab, which the alternative is to move cursor to a much smaller close button. Especially on some apps (iirc pgadmin) where the tabs has no close button, that we need to right click and choose a menu to close a tab.
- hgomersall 4y agoPasting from the primary buffer is surely the main use case for middle click?
- soperj 4y agohow do you scroll with just your thumb? how do you paste into your terminal?