[OSX-Users] Re: De-clicking macbooks

[Chris Andrews]

Three finger drag was my favourite and that's now available in
Accessibility prefpane in El Cap or Trackpad prefpane in Yosemite or
earlier.
On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 at 09:05, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> It does. Do a light tap, immediately followed by a light press-and-drag.
>
> On 14/01/2016 09:02, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> > I have that but it doesn't work for dragging.
> >
> > On 14/01/2016 08:57, Jules Field wrote:
> >> And because I'm a dumb-ass, I forgot the most obvious answer, which
> >> applies to any Mac pretty much:
> >>
> >> In System Preferences / Trackpad, tick "Tap to click". Then you just
> >> "click" by lightly tapping the trackpad with 1 finger, no need to
> >> press it hard enough to make it audibly click at all.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Jules.
> >>
> >> On 13/01/2016 21:50, Jules Field wrote:
> >>> Buy a MacBook with a Force Touch trackpad, such as the 2015 MacBook.
> >>> They're hopefully about to extend them to MacBook Pros as well.
> >>> On the Force Touch trackpad, the trackpad never actually moves at
> >>> all. All the audio and haptic feedback is "artificial", and you can
> >>> turn off the clicks in System Preferences.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Jules
> >>
> >
>
> Jules
>
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