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[Frumple]

Damn. Well, uh. Good luck?

No one you can scapegoat for it? Or, well, appropriately blame?

[Aklyon]

Blame it on bad air conditions?
The air force can do that, right?

[Vorthon]

The mouse for my laptop is dieing. And the touchpad has no scroll wheel equivalent.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Turn on mousekeys?

[Aklyon]

Get a backup mouse?

[Vorthon]

Gonna have to wait for next month's check. I have a grand total of 92 cents to my name at the moment.

[Aklyon]

Have you try swiping about the touchpad edges and corners to see if there is Hidden Scrollwheel function? I've had that happen once, though it only scrolled the page up/down that time.

[Vorthon]

I've had this laptop for a couple years, and I'm loathe to use the touchpad unless absolutely necessary. Makes my wrists hurt.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Have you try swiping about the touchpad edges and corners to see if there is Hidden Scrollwheel function? I've had that happen once, though it only scrolled the page up/down that time.

HOLY SHIT

This.....this explains a lot of accidental scrolls that have happened over the years. I can't believe I didn't know about this.

[Mego]

Have you try swiping about the touchpad edges and corners to see if there is Hidden Scrollwheel function? I've had that happen once, though it only scrolled the page up/down that time.

HOLY SHIT

This.....this explains a lot of accidental scrolls that have happened over the years. I can't believe I didn't know about this.

That moment of eureka is the best.

[Mini]

I've also seen it be having to stroke with two fingers at a time (up or down, but I imagine there would be one somewhere that does it horizontally just to be different).

[MaximumZero]

Ours go up and down, side to side, pinch in and out to zoom, and if you're in photoshop, you can rotate stuff. They've been like that for a few years now.

[Frumple]

... that sounds vile and horrific. Are your people at least merciful enough to either have a very overt option to disable that bullshit and/or have it opt-in rather than default?

Because all that on a laptop touchpad sounds like a recipe to make me throw the laptop through the nearest concrete wall.

[Aklyon]

No, it sounds like they fit a tablet into the touchpad.

[MaximumZero]

In the top left corner of the trackpad, there's an icon (usually a square) or a divot. If you double-tap that, it turns the trackpad completely off.

If you want to turn the gestures off, that's under "Mouse" in control panel, IIRC.

Edit: It's actually under the Synaptics control panel, and all you have to do is right click the icon in the tray at the bottom right and uncheck "Enable Gestures".