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    Touchpad: Enable Gestures?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by age20d, Aug 5, 2006.

  1. age20d

    age20d Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm on my Dell e1705, and if you go to Control Panel > Mouse, the Synaptics touchpad options dialog will come up. I was exploring the options, and many of them are very useful I think.

    Anyways, if you go to the Gestures tab, one of the check box options is "Enable back/forward gestures". I can not figure out what this option does. If anyone knows, please tell me, because I am curious.
     
    age20d, Aug 5, 2006
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    teamkillahilla Notebook Evangelist

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    google? :)
    "Gesturing lets you perform a task by writing a character on the touch pad. For instance, you can minimize the active window by tapping the gesture button and drawing a horizontal line. The software comes with a handful of predefined gestures that you can modify if you feel the need. You can also define your own gestures and define applications you want to launch with a gesture. "
     
    teamkillahilla, Aug 5, 2006
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    bjdcdjsa Notebook Guru

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    I think you drag your finger forward or backwards on the touchpad thus going forwards or backwards. That option was available with Firefox as an extension, nifty idea, but takes getting used to.
     
    bjdcdjsa, Aug 5, 2006
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    age20d Notebook Enthusiast

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    Well, I have tried following these directions, but no gesture commands occured. If anyone knows some detailed instructions of exactly how to do a gesture, please explain.
     
    age20d, Aug 6, 2006
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    kevo628 Newbie

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    you have to slide your finger left or right along the top of the touchpad. it took me a while to figure it out
     
    kevo628, Aug 13, 2006
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    gleng Notebook Enthusiast

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    I prefer just settin the tapping for the top left and top right as back and forward instead of sliding left to right and right to left
     
    gleng, Aug 13, 2006
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