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I really hate Apple, but I must admit that their *Magic Trackpad* worked incredibly well in their operating system. And, although being one of those that hates touchpads, I have to say that the Apple Magic Trackpad is so well designed that I even prefer it over mouses. I really hate Apple, but I must admit that their *Magic Trackpad* worked incredibly well in their operating system. And, although I am one of those that hates touchpads, I have to say that the Apple Magic Trackpad is so well designed that I even prefer it over mouses.
- `Option "Tapping" "on"`: I enable tapping because I like doing effortless clicks. This requires less surface pressure, therefore less wrist/fingers pain/fatigue. But I know that lots of you like it. Disable it then with "off". - `Option "Tapping" "on"`: I enable tapping because I like doing effortless clicks. This requires less surface pressure, therefore less wrist/fingers pain/fatigue. But I know that lots of you hate it. Disable it then with "off".
- `MatchName=*Magic Trackpad` This config affects any touchpad which its named end in "Magic Trackpad" - If your model was "Device: sys-usb: Apple Inc. Magic Trackpad 2", replace it for "MatchName=*Magic Trackpad 2" - `MatchName=*Magic Trackpad` This config affects any touchpad which its name ends in "Magic Trackpad" - If your model was "Device: sys-usb: Apple Inc. Magic Trackpad 2", replace it for `MatchName=*Magic Trackpad 2`
For the moment, this is everything. 5. Reboot and everything will apply. For the moment, this is everything I've done.
- You can use the 3 finger tap to paste anything you've selected. This is an ultra fast to paste things into the terminal. - You can move windows of apps opened in your desktop to the bottom by 3-finger-tapping their title bar. This is cool because it saves you a lot of 1-finger-taps/left-clicks bringing to the top the rest of windows you wanna focus.- You can use the 3 finger tap to paste anything you've selected. This is an ultra-fast-way to paste things into the terminal. - You can move windows of apps opened in your desktop to the bottom by 3-finger-tapping their title bar. This is cool because it saves you a lot of 1-finger-taps/left-clicks bringing to the top the rest of windows you wanna focus. **Help me:** - You can debug touchpad pressure and behaviour by running in dom0 this command: `sudo libinput measure touchpad-pressure`