Questions tagged [gestures]
Gestures performed with a touch-input device or the mouse (see [mouse-gestures])
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Touchpad scroll gesture registered as pinch zoom in Outlook
When I compose a message in Outlook and scroll using my touchpad's two finger gesture up or down, often it is registered as pinch zoom gesture. This is very annoying! I like to keep my zoom level at ...
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Google Chrome Pinch gesture to magnify instead of zooming
on my work notebook, when I pinch touchpad in Chrome, I'm getting magnification effect (no layout change), but on my private notebook I'm getting a zoom level change (with page layout change) and I ...
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How can I configure Elan touchpad 2 finger gesture right\left to back\forward in the browser?
I have Lenovo y700 with Elan touchpad. How can I change the 2 finger swipe gesture right\left so it will do back\forward in the browser (chrome)?
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How to adjust sensitivity of Windows 10 volume control touchpad three-finger gestures
Windows 10 has a Touchpad setting to allow Three-finger gestures to Change audio and volume.
I find three-finger-dragging up and down changes the volume too quickly, making it easy to accidentally ...
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Customise Arc mouse gestures on windows
I recently bought arc mouse and the lack of gestures in it are a bit disappointing. The microsoft mouse and keyboard centre software lets you customise a 3 finger click. So it means the mouse can ...
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How can I make itunes work with bluetooth media buttons on windows 10?
If I am listening to music on itunes on windows 10 and I press any of the media buttons on my bluetooth headset such as play/pause, next, prev.
It does not send the commands to itunes. Instead it ...
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How to enable multi-touch gestures on surface pro 7
I've installed libinput gestures but when I run sudo libinput debug-events I do not see any pinch events. How do I enable them on ubuntu Gnome.
I am on a surface pro 7 and have verified that "...
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Catalog of all Windows 10 gestures (tablet mode)
Is there any list of ALL the gestures available in Windows 10 tablet mode? I mean gestures to perform on the tablet screen itself, not on a trackpad or whatever.
I haven't been able to find it.
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How to turn off Windows 10 touch screen gestures
On my Lenovo Windows 10 touchscreen laptop on some programs (notably programs written in Processing), single taps have the graphical feedback of a circle appearing on the screen but a touch is not ...
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How to disable close fullscreen touchscreen gesture on Gnome (Fedora)?
I'm building a touchscreen project on Fedora 31 (using Gnome 3) that requires a fullscreen Unity3D window that the user cannot close using the touchscreen.
I could disable most of the multi-touch ...
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How to Remap Three Finger Swipe to Browser Back on Windows 10?
I have a Lenovo Y50-70 laptop with Windows 10 on it. The problem is that I am not able to configure my Elantech touchpad to have the following gestures:
Three Finger Swipe Left -> Browser Back
Three ...
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How do I change Google Chrome's touchpad gestures to go back using 2 fingers left-to-right?
Google Chrome is set to go backwards a page by swiping two fingers right to left, but I find that backwards and the opposite of what it is on iPhone. How do I change the setting to use left-to-right 2 ...
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Enable testing of native pinch to zoom in Firefox
By reading this bugzilla issue I get the impression that I should be able to test the upcoming native pinch to zoom feature in Firefox by setting mousewheel.with_alt.action to 5 in about:config, but I ...
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How to disable windows 10 gestures (using wacom tablet as a touchpad)?
My mouse stopped working so in the meanwhile I'm using my wacom intuos as a touchpad, it used to be Ok but now the windows gestures are making it impossible to work.
Every time I'm on the desktop or ...
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How to three-finger-swipe on remotely using Mac Screen Sharing
We have two 10.13 Macs, where I've setup Preferences->Sharing->Shared Screen. My user would like to use the three finger swipe-up gesture to access Mission Control. However, the local Mac accepts ...
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ALPS touchpad on Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 14 stops working
watching and consuming for a long period already, now it's time for my first very own question. ;-)
My Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 14 (Model 20DM008EGE, Germany) has got an ALPS touch pad. Everything works ...
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Windows 10- Touch pad gestures- Zed-iLife notebook
I have a notebook. its super small so it's irritating to use a small touchpad gestures popping up inadvertently.
I have scoured various "mouse" settings.. No option for gesture control. No specific ...
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Disable Windows 10 swipe from left Gestures on a desktop with a touch screen [duplicate]
We are building a kiosk system. I have disabled everything but the swipe from the left. By swiping from the left side of the screen they gain access to the start bar. Is there a way to disable this ...
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Bring up the keyboard on windows 10 tablet mode?
I'm using a tablet with windows 10. I'm using a fullscreen app that requires keyboard to successfully interact with it, but there is nothing in the app itself that brings up an onscreen keyboard. Is ...
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Windows 10 Synaptics Trackpad 3 finger tap opens cortana even after regedit fix
I have a synaptics trackpad (fully updated drivers) and I want the three finger tap to act as middle click but at the momment it opens cortana search start menu. I tried a fix where I changed the ...
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any way to disable mouse gesture in microsoft mouse for Linux?
Beginning to migrate to natural keyboard, I bought a wireless keyboard/mouse from Microsoft, and am quite happy with it. I can live with the "Windows" button on the mouse. But every time I (...
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How to enable three finger swipe in linux (Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 64-bit)?
I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 64-bit on my system.
how to enable three finger swipe here, how can i set an event in three finget swipe ?
e.g if i want to switch workspace in 3 finger swipe,...
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Disable pinch-zoom gesture in Chrome (Windows 10)
I have a disabled client who awkwardly grabs his touch screen to use it. Unfortunately this means he often 'zooms' webpages, making them unusable.
Can I disable this behaviour in Chrome?
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Disable pinch-to-zoom on a Windows 10 PC with "normal" (non-Precision) Touchpad
Some people have asked on this forum how gestures can be enabled in their PCs. But gestures can also be a pain if they can´t be disabled. The touchpad of my Win 10 laptop has the mouse buttons ...
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Win 10 Pro, Surface Pro 4, DISABLE right/left edge swipe tasks
Win 10 Professional.
Surface Pro 4.
I want to DISABLE, the right/left edge-swipe (technical jargon, unknown to me).
I use my OneNote-2016 all the time for taking notes and so I am writing on the ...
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How do you disable touchscreen gestures on Fedora/GNOME?
I'm creating a touchscreen project on Fedora 23 (using GNOME 3.18.2) that requires a fullscreen Firefox (or Chrome) window that the user cannot close using the touchscreen.
However, we realized that ...
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Microsoft Surface Pro 4 - Disable Virtual Desktop Swipe
I have a Surface Pro 4 and I'm left handed.
This means that whenever I try to write something with the pen, I accidentally activate the swipe gesture to see the open tasks / add new virtual desktop.
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Windows 10 Mail swipe actions stopped working
I was using the touch "swipe actions" in Windows Mail to archive individual emails.
For some reason, the swipe actions seem to be gone. Now when I swipe an email with my finger, it acts like a "drag" ...
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Disable "left swipe gesture / app switching" in Windows 10 on Surface 3
Is it possible to disable 'left swipe / gesture' or 'App Switching' in tablet mode on a Surface 3? I am Left Handed and whenever I use the 'Pen' in One note, my palm rests on the left hand edge and ...
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How can I make i3wm bind multitouch gesture to change desktop?
The one feature I really miss from OSX is multitouch gestures for changing desktops. Three-finger-swipe in either direction let me go to next/prev fullscreen app or desktop. I would very much like ...
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Gnome - touchpad gesturers
I am using gnome 3.17.90 on XPS 13 2015 , arch linux. I tried use xf86-input-libinput. The touchpad works well as a mouse and for scrolling up and down.
I dont understand how can I make the ...
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Switch Desktops Shortcut / Gesture - windows 10
I know this issue was discusses for preview builds of win10.
Today I installed the final release version of windows 10 and still cant find any shortcut or trackpad gesture to DIRECTLY switch to the ...
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How can I define custom Gestures on my touch screen windows laptop
I want to define my own gestures on windows 8.1 on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro laptop. First of all, is this possible? and if it is, how can I do so?
For example I want to tell my laptop when I put five ...
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How do I turn off touch gestures in OS X even when no touchpad is detected?
I have a delicate problem. I use a large multi-touch screen from PQ Labs with a Mac Mini. It is used in an exhibition where I run an application i fullscreen mode. However, since there is a touch ...
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Using touchscreen for right-click drag
I just got a Surface Pro 3, and am trying out some older games designed for mouse control. I found that many of these would be playable even without the type cover (i.e., touchscreen only), except for ...
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Yosemite: Three Finger / Look Up Trackpad Gesture Not Working
The Look Up / Three Finger trackpad gesture is not working in Yosemite for my user. This gesture was working in Mavericks, but stopped when I upgraded.
If I log in with the Guest user, the Look Up ...
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Trackpad gestures stop working in Safari on MacOS Yosemite
I cannot tell what is the reason that the trackpad gestures stop working but here are the symptoms:
Trackpad gestures would be working fine. For instance: smart zoom (double finger tap) or Swipe with ...
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Disabling touch gestures in Windows 8.1
I'm setting a Windows 8.1 computer with a touchscreen for a web-based betting terminal, but I'm having some problems with the gestures. Basically I'd like to disable touch gestures such as pinch-to-...
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Gesture to switch between IE tabs [duplicate]
I have the Yoga 2 pro (touchscreen convertible). In tent or stand mode, with no access to the keyboard, what is the quickest way to switch between open tabs in Internet Explorer (running in Modern UI)?...
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Enabling multi touch on Windows Phone 8 emulator using Wacom Intuos Pro
Using the tablet with the emulator I am able to select and click. Two-finger scrolling and pinch-to-zoom does not seem to register. I can confirm that these gestures work on the Windows 8 start screen ...
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Assign a gesture to a key combination? [closed]
Anyone aware of a software that supports gestures and allows you to assign a key combination to them?
I'm using a similar program to spaces on windows, and i'd like to swipe to view a new desktop, I'...
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How can I reassign the OS X trackpad three-finger tap to a four-finger tap?
I am using three-finger tap as a middle click to do things like open links in a new tab, which works great (using the app MiddleClick). However, it also open the dictionary simultaneously. I could ...
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Enable gestures at Samsung Ativ Book 2
How to enable gestures to fully use multitouch in a Samsung Ativ Book 2?
Couldn't find solution online maybe some of you had similar problem.
I'm using Windows 8.1.
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Use camera to control applications on Mac OSX
Is there a way I can use the camera on my Macbook Pro to control the applications on my desktop? I would like to be able to wave to use waving gestures to change between apps, show the app expose, etc....
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Is it possible to disable WinRT app close gesture (Pull app from top to bottom)
I want to disable the app closing gesture, pulling app from top to bottom, in my Dell Latitude 10. See the below given image which shows which thing I want to disable.
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Turning off touchpad multi gesture in Windows 8
I have an Asus A55V laptop with Windows 8 installed on it. Now I'm trying to turn off the Touchpad gestures. On Superuser I found this answer:
However, after experimenting with drivers I found a ...
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Windows 8 trackpad gestures along with scrolling stops working after running virtualbox or vmware player
I have an AMD A8 based HP laptop, Pavilion G6 2201AX running Windows 8.
It has a Synaptics touchpad. My problem is whenever i run Virtualbox or Vmware player all the gestures on trackpad stop working, ...
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Pointer 'snap to' Start button when swiping from right on touchpad
I want my mouse pointer to 'snap' to the Start button when I swipe from right on the touchpad to unveil the Charms Bar. I've seen this in some ASUS Windows 8 laptops.
Because dragging my mouse ...
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Three finger flick not working as expected
I've got a Lenovo y580 with both Windows 7 and Windows 8 installed. When I first installed Windows 8, the three finger flick to go back or forward a page in an internet or file browser worked fine. ...
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Reduce touchpad area for left edge swipe gesture in Windows 8
So this question is similar but different to the question Modify or disable Windows 8 swipe gestures on touchpad / laptop, or at least the "modify" portion of the question was never addressed.
I've ...
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