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If you have a shitty clickpad and you use linux, `synclient ClickPad=0` will fix it and make it work like and Apple clickpad. Worse, they make the entire rest of the trackpad surface a left click (like in Apple's design), so it's tempting to use it like an Apple clickpad, but if you do that, sometimes your finger will end up over the right click button and it will do the wrong thing. They have all the disadvantages of traditional trackpads in that they anchor your hand position, but there's no tactile indication of where the button is, so sometimes when you want to right click, you accidentally miss the button and left click. So the "soft buttons" that they put on "clickpads" are terrible. For moving short distances, it's intuitive that you wouldn't need any range of motion. If I want to move the cursor a long distance, I'll move my finger quickly and take advantage of cursor accelleration. I don't move my wrist when using the trackpad, my range of mobility is limited to the range of my knuckles. When they introduced this on their laptops it was fantastic, it was what a trackpad experience should have always been like.Īs someone who's used Apple's "Magic Trackpad", which is huge, I can say there's almost no value in a larger trackpad surface, which is what other manufacturers are going for. Apple's trackpads solve the problem by changing tap-to-click to push-down-to-click. Typing on a laptop with a tap-to-click trackpad is a horrible experience because your wrist accidentally contacts the trackpad and activates a click event, moving the carat or focusing on a different field and suddenly your keystrokes are being sent to the wrong place. But the problem with tap-to-click has always been sensitivity. This might help defend against RSI, and also makes it faster to transition between controlling the cursor and typing. This gives your hands more freedom you only have to maintain one point of contact with the trackpad, and you can pivot around that point however you want, rather than being anchored by a second point. The tap-to-click mode has always been simpler because you don't have to keep your thumb on the button all the time. The point of Apple's design is to unite tap-to-click mode of traditional trackpads with the button-activated mode. I hate to evangelize Apple for fear of being associated with people who evangelize Apple, but Apple understands interface design well enough to realize that that's a terrible way to design a trackpad. Their trackpad designs are essentially what you would have if the surfaces of the physical trackpad buttons were also touch sensitive on a tradition trackpad design: the bottom-right corner of the trackpad is a right-click area. It seems that most non-apple laptop manufacturers that have adopted this style of trackpad have done it for aesthetic purposes, to mimic Apple, and to give users more space to move their fingers over. I can't comment on the trackpoint since I have no interest in using it, but the trackpad is truly unusable on Windows. I currently use a Thinkpad T440p, which is of the generation of thinkpads universally reviled for their "shitty" trackpad and lack of discrete trackpoint buttons. The quality varies considerably, from completely unusable to my favorite way of controlling the cursor (better than a mouse, for casual purposes like web browsing). I've used a number of computers with apple-style the-whole-trackpad-is-the-button systems. #DELL XPS 13 2012 TRACKPAD ISSUES WINDOWS 10 DRIVER#To clarify, this is really a Windows 10 issue, and to some extent an Synaptics driver issue (even though it isn't officially supported by Dell). I obviously didn't succeed, which is why I returned it. #DELL XPS 13 2012 TRACKPAD ISSUES WINDOWS 10 WINDOWS 7#I spent over 20 hours testing and researching and messing with the registry to have a trackpad that works the same as most any other laptop with Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. ![]() #DELL XPS 13 2012 TRACKPAD ISSUES WINDOWS 10 SOFTWARE#These are all software issues - I installed Synaptics and it fixed these problems, but introduced others. ![]() There are also horrific sensitivity issues with the trackpad that is extremely well documented in user complaints online - the cursor doesn't start moving until your finger moves about a millimeter on the trackpad, resulting in it "jumping" when you are moving very small distances with high cursor speed. Edit: I realize after posting this it might not be relevant since you may be discussing the trackpad as used with Ubuntu.Īs of 1 month ago, when I bought and then returned an XPS 15 due to the trackpad, there was no option for middle clicking and no option for navigating forward/back. ![]()
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