Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Side scrolling on touchpad!
Remember before the days of mouse wheels when you had to move your mouse over to the scroll bar and pull down on it to be able to scroll in windows? Well, I've been living in those days on my laptop. I've had to manually use the touchpad to move the pointer over to the scroll bar and pull it down. I hated every second of it. I've finally figured out how to fix this!
All I had to do was use the correct driver. I downloaded the generic driver for Windows XP from http://www.synaptics.com. It was a very simple process and it enabled me to scroll using the edge of the touchpad! This is exciting stuff! I also got it working in Linux by changing the driver from the generic "mouse" driver to the "synaptics" driver. It was so simple. I wish I would have discovered this a lot sooner.
Oh, and if any of you are like my mother and don't use the mouse wheel and/or side of the touchpad to scroll in web browser windows... um... you should have one of your fingers cut off as a punishment. Make life simpler! Use the scroll wheel!
(Image courtesy of Gateway)
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I resent that comment about your mother. You owe her an apology. You have no right to say things like that about other people without their permission. especially if there's a possibility of it getting back to them somehow. So maybe you need to have one of your fingers (Or something else cut off! :)
ReplyDeleteHey, it was all in good fun. I didn't mean to hurt anyone by that comment. I'm sorry.
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