Touchpad

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A touchpad or trackpad is a small, flat panel that converts finger motion into mouse cursor motion.

Clicks

Different touchpads have different hardware for sensing "mouse" clicks:

  • Physical mouse buttons below and/or above the touchpad.
  • "Touch buttons" as designated areas of the touchpad.
  • Interpret a tap as left click
  • The whole touchpad being pressure-sensitive as a mouse button.

Multitouch touchpads often interpret two-finger tap/pressure as right clicks.

Scrolling

Some touchpads often use the right border as scrolling area - for emulating a scrollwheel.

Multitouch touchpads instead often use two-finger gestures for panning. This is the recommendation for Microsoft Windows (Windows 8 onwards) and MacOS X.

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