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  2. How to use and customize touchpad commands on your ... - AOL

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    Your Windows laptop's touchpad can click, of course, but it can also help you navigate through menus and apps with ease. How to use and customize touchpad commands on your Windows laptop Skip to ...

  3. Touchpad - Wikipedia

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    Closeup of a touchpad on an Acer CB5-311 laptop Closeup of a touchpad on a MacBook 2015 laptop. A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device.Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen.

  4. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

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    [16] [17] Most studies find that touchpad is slightly faster; one study found that "the touchpad was operated 15% faster than the trackpoint". [18] Another study found that average object selection time was faster with a touchpad, 1.7 seconds compared to 2.2 seconds with a trackpoint, and object manipulation took 6.2 seconds with a touchpad, on ...

  5. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    Trackpad on an Apple MacBook Pro. A touchpad or trackpad is a flat surface that can detect finger contact. It is a stationary pointing device, commonly used on laptop computers. At least one physical button normally comes with the touchpad, but the user can also generate a mouse click by tapping on the pad.

  6. Pointing device gesture - Wikipedia

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    The mouse gesture for "back" in Opera – the user holds down the right mouse button, moves the mouse left, and releases the right mouse button.. In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and clicks that the software recognizes as a specific computer event and responds to accordingly.

  7. Magic Trackpad - Wikipedia

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    The first generation Magic Trackpad. The first generation Magic Trackpad was released on July 27, 2010. It is made of glass and aluminum in the same style as Apple's Wireless Keyboard and sits flush with it. [3] [4] The entire trackpad can be used as a button, pressing down on the trackpad puts pressure on two circular feet below to register a ...

  8. Mission Control (macOS) - Wikipedia

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    On a trackpad, it can be selected by placing four fingers on the trackpad and pulling them away from each other. In the first two cases, after Mission Control is activated, the user can select any window by clicking on it or selecting it with arrow keys and pressing Enter. Exposé then deactivates, leaving the selected window in the foreground.

  9. Drag and drop - Wikipedia

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    An image being dragged onto a web browser icon, which opens the image in the web browser. In computer graphical user interfaces, drag and drop is a pointing device gesture in which the user selects a virtual object by "grabbing" it and dragging it to a different location or onto another virtual object.