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If I could make WindowMaker work well with a laptop touchpad

Story: Introducing the Window Maker Live CDTotal Replies: 3
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BernardSwiss

Mar 13, 2012
7:56 PM EDT 		I would really like something like this. It would be great for laptops. Especially older ones.

But the click-both-buttons-together substitute doesn't seem to quite cut it on a center-front touchpad, and I find lack of an easy middle-click to be a real snag.
tuxchick

Mar 13, 2012
10:53 PM EDT 		I wouldn't last five minutes with a two-button laptop. I use that middle button a way lot, especially for fast pastes.
gus3

Mar 14, 2012
6:23 AM EDT 		I take it, "older laptop" means "touchpad doesn't support multi-touch"?

My EeePC has multi-touch, and I use it all the time. Two fingers is middle-click/mouse wheel, and three fingers is right-click.
Fettoosh

Mar 14, 2012
8:10 AM EDT
Quoting:I take it, "older laptop" means "touchpad doesn't support multi-touch"?


That is not necessarily true for the IBM Thinkpad T42, My old one with display hinge broken has a middle button that sticks out like a sore thumb. :-)

Quoting:My EeePC has multi-touch, and I use it all the time.


My daughter's HP Pavilion DM1z has that but she had me turn it off because she couldn't get used to it.

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