This is so much easier than pressing hard on the bottom side of the touchpad why did no one tell me this was a thing 😭😭

  • Cousin Mose@lemmy.hogru.ch
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    2 days ago

    On macOS you can do all kinds of crazy shit with gestures. Using a mouse feels very obsolete and slows everything way down.

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        23 hours ago

        Yeah swipping between screens or forward backward in the browser up and down the browser page, used to be 4 fingers up to mission control and I can’t remember all of them. It really did make movement pretty fluid. Now they do a thing that I believe is only integrated to Apple apps where if you are signed into your Apple account you can continue between devices fairly simply. Like if you have an email/texg open on the iPhone and walk up to your Mac an icon appears on the dock far right with a phone symbol, you tap it and it opens the mail/messages/safari app to where you were and wrap what you were doing. I believe it does the opposite as well by opening the phone, going to app switcher and the active app on the Mac will be an option to continue on the iPhone

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        2 days ago

        Basically anything…they work similar to keyboard shortcuts.

        I remember having a four finger click(not tap, that’s a different gesture) to lock my machine when I was using a MacBook at work.

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        2 days ago

        Show/hide desktop, open window manager, open app drawer, scroll in all 4 directions, zoom in and out, you can press and then press harder for more functions sometimes

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          1 day ago

          Most of those I do with a keyboard trivially. Personally, I don’t see the benefit. Keyboard shortcuts are superior 99% of the time, and KDE supports mouse gestures as well (though I don’t use them), so you don’t even need a track pad for most of them.