Why don't laptops allow for easy horizontal scrolling?
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December 8th, 2010
If you have a laptop, often on the right-hand side of the touchpad there is an area where you can stroke up or down to scroll in the respective direction. Why isn’t the same possible along the bottom of the touchpad to scroll right and left? Would that create other usability issues?
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On my laptop, I can do this. I just comes down to the model of the laptop. I personally consider the built in scrollbar a pain because I can trigger it accidentaly, and it scrolls me to somewhere completely different.
Ah OK, then I’ve just seen the wrong laptops. @PhiNotPi Do you trigger it accidentally when moving the mouse or when not intending to use the trackpad at all?
MAC two finger touch scroll addresses the scrolling issue better than any other laptop i have seen. its really simple.
my lap top has this as well. I hate the touch pad all together though cause my hands usually hit it as Im typing so I generally have it turned off all together
@uberbatman There was a configuration option on my laptop to disable the touchpad while I’m typing and enable it otherwise, which works great :)
@Vincentt ahhh brilliant, wish mine had that.
@uberbatman It’s a feature of my operating system, so presumably you only need the right software. If you have Ubuntu, I can look up for you where I did that, if not, you can probably Google for some type of application that does that :) Or perhaps it also comes standard as a configuration for your OS.
I got rid of Ubuntu in favor of window 7. I missed my vidja games and didnt feel like dual booting.
Im sure they make something, now to just stop being lazy and google :P
Damn I’m stupid. Apparently in the mouse configuration window there also was a checkbox to “Enable horizontal scrolling”, which I can now do :P
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