Anyone posted the Lenovo malware news yet?
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Tap-to-click seems to have re-enabled itself.
I found that would happen at times too. After using my Yoga for a while, I actually got to liking click-to-tap so it now stays turned on on all my laptops. (And I just deal with those haphazard palm-induced clicks) What I keep trying to do now is use 2-finger scrolling on the T530. My Yoga is spoiling me!
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And I just deal with those haphazard palm-induced clicks
i don't know where it is on windows but there's a setting that you can set to have the trackpad automatically disable when a key is pressed for a period of time. I set it so the pad is disabled for a second after every key press, that way i can type long stretches without worrying about the mouse but when i need the mouse it doesn't take too long to become available.
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Hmm... Never seen that setting on Windows. The closest I've seen is the "PalmCheck" feature (which is in it's own window - and doesn't understand there's a task bar on the left - seriously? we've only had to deal with desktop vs workspace differences for HOW LONG NOW???). Mine is set almost to maximum - which actually works pretty well.
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I have this:
No idea if it has an equivalent on Windows. Your touchpad driver might have it, if it comes with a settings interface?
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Does yours have the trackpad where the trackpad actually presses down when you click it?Those are worse.
I want to do punch whoever thought that was a good design in the face.
You're pretty much required to use an external mouse.
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So I don't have one of the newer Thinkpads (yet - it's on order ) so it doesn't bother me unless I use a colleague's laptop.
Then again, at work I use an external keyboard and/or mouse wherever possible anyway.
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No idea if it has an equivalent on Windows. Your touchpad driver might have it, if it comes with a settings interface?
Haven't seen that on any of the touchpads I have (at least using the provided settings dialog). The Lenovo T and W model pads are much more primitive than the Yoga ones. I'll have to check those when I get home...
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Then again, at work I use an external keyboard and/or mouse wherever possible anyway.
Well, yeah. Me too. (somewhere there's a keyboard thread - MS Natural 4000! And not the 7000 because it likes to randomly ignore/add keystrokes)
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you can set to have the trackpad automatically disable when a key is pressed for a period of time. I set it so the pad is disabled for a second after every key press
That's how the Lenovo trackpad comes as default (certainly on the Z50) and it's ANNOYING AS FUCK that the trackpad disables when the keyboard is pressed.
It's not even an option in the settings - you have to find the registry key to disable it.
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ANNOYING AS FUCK
i disagree, i like the feature. YMMV IANAUXE
the having to set a registry key to disable it is
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the trackpad where the trackpad actually presses down when you click it?Those are worse.
Maybe Lenovo's version is, but e.g. the Macbook trackpad is light years ahead of the godawful ones with the grid of bumps.
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godawful ones with the grid of bumps.
Yeah. Don't like (hence external mouse at work). But the Yoga's are smooth!
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I actually got to liking click-to-tap so it now stays turned on on all my laptops.
NO! I was trying to use it last night because the batteries in my Bluetooth mouse died, and I was too lazy to go find fresh batteries. Random stray clicks everywhere. Not good in a paint program.
Your touchpad driver might have it, if it comes with a settings interface?
Thanks for motivating me enough to dig deep enough into the settings to find the enable/disable checkbox. OTOH, I learned that it actually does support multi-finger taps and gestures โ almost enough to be worth keeping it enabled, if accidental 1-finger tapping weren't so annoying. If only there were a setting to control what it considers a tap (like the "how fast do two clicks have to be in order to be a double-click" setting that's been around since the very first mouse).Hmm, it looks like the gestures are enabled even without tapping enabled. I suspect that's probably caused unexpected random behaviors in the past, but it seems like it might be useful because it's not nearly as easy to do accidentally as tapping is. I'll have to play with that a bit next time I'm using it with the lid open.
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I've never had a problem with accidental taps on my dell, but then again there's a keyboard shortcut to turn the entire trackpad on/off, and I'm almost always using an external mouse minimum.
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I've never done it either. I can access the whole keyboard (when I'm not using external) without touching the trackpad.
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I've never had a problem with accidental taps on my dell
The work laptop before this one was a Dell, and I liked its trackpad significantly better than this Lenovo. I turned tap-to-click off on it, too, but other than that, I never had problems with it. I found this one more troublesome pretty much from day one.
without touching the trackpad.
Accidentally touching the trackpad is not my problem; it's that an intentional touch is interpreted as a tap when I just meant to move the pointer or scroll. And this isn't a problem now that I have found (again) the way to disable it. (Under "Mouse Properties" it's on the rather unintuitive "UltraNav" tab. From there, it's reasonably intuitive to drill down through multiple layers of buttons and menus to find the setting, at least if you know the setting exists; otherwise, you might not think to dig that deep.)
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Hmm, it looks like the gestures are enabled even without tapping enabled.... I'll have to play with that a bit next time I'm using it with the lid open.
Played with it a little. Some of them seem a little flaky. Pinch zooming seems to work pretty well in most applications. Chrome didn't respond at first, but I tried it again and all is well now.
I don't see a lot of use for 3-finger flick as an alternate for back and forward in the browser; Alt+arrow seems more convenient to me. Whatever. It also can be used to switch between tabs in Excel, but that's really flaky. It sometimes takes multiple flicks to respond. (NVM. I was Doing It Wrongโข.)
Twist-rotate hasn't worked in any application I've tried, yet, but I've only tried one application where I might reasonable expect it to work.
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I found a setting to disable another really annoying feature. :) If my finger gets near the edge of the trackpad, the pointer no longer shoots rapidly off toward the edge of the screen. I can see where that feature might be useful under some circumstances, but it always seems to bite me when I don't expect or want it. It's really a pain in a paint program.
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Your argument is compelling, but you only used 58 question marks. An even 60 would have definitely swayed me.
...says the guy who counted @ben_lubar's question marks .
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...says the guy who <!-- may have --> counted @ben_lubar's question marks <!-- (I certainly wasn't going to count them myself) -->.
It's amazing what computers can do for you! Or were you thinking about counting them manually?
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I bet Ben could write a short Go program to count them. I like to think Blakey was frothing at the mouth as he did it manually.
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I bet Ben could write a short Go program to count them.
I bet he could. I bet that would be a waste of time compared with using a one-liner in a language with a REPL.
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I bet that would be a waste of time compared with
using a one-liner in a language with a REPLa different waste of time.FTFY
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igo> len("??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????")
58note that igo is a joke of a REPL, it can't even import
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"??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????".length
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$ cling ****************** CLING ****************** * Type C++ code and press enter to run it * * Type .q to exit * ******************************************* [cling]$ #include <string.h> [cling]$ strlen("??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????") (size_t) 58 [cling]$
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Offset of first question mark: 7px
Offset of second question mark: 15px
Offset of end of question marks: 459px
Width of one question mark = 15 - 7 = 8px
Width of all question marks = 459 - 7 = 452px
Number of question marks = 452 / 8 = 56.5
[u]There are 57 question marks to the nearest whole question mark.[/u]
Filed under: Close enough
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Not y enough; needs more wooden table ;)
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It's already a CWOT, so additional is unnecessary.
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Yay, another one! [/sarcasm]