Comments on: Helpful Tip: Middle-Click on a Touchpad Laptop Mouse

By: adolescet

adolescet — Sat, 31 May 2008 22:18:09 +0000

Thank you very much

By: Tammy

Tammy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:10:49 +0000

I have a Dell, and I have been trying to use the “both buttons for middle” for about a year, and couldn’t get it to work (thought I was just clumsy). I just went into the touchpad setup (appears as an icon in the taskbar) and on the “buttons” tab, there was a drop down to define the meaning of both buttons. So I set it to “middle button click”, et voila, I now have middle button click. This is very important to me since I am a programmer, and the systems that I work on use highlight and middle click to cut and paste code (very fast) and also commands. Since I work from home some, I really needed that middle click. So I hope you have a dell - now you can set this up!

By: Prashant Agrawal

Prashant Agrawal — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:06:22 +0000

Thanx a lot for that autohotkey script…….it is really cool…..thanx once again

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:33:49 +0000

David wrote:

Ritter wrote:

I have the two buttons however, I rarely have to use them. Pressing both buttons at the same time does not give me the middle click function, pressing two fingers on the pad itself however does the middle-click action.

I recently found out I had this function on my touch pad and three fiingers at once activates the right click. I can’t believe I’ve never realized this no my laptop. I think they need to supply a book with the laptop outlining what all the unique shortcut are.

I wouldn’t mind having that feature, but unfortunately my laptop doesn’t support that.

By: David

David — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 16:48:16 +0000

Ritter wrote:

I have the two buttons however, I rarely have to use them. Pressing both buttons at the same time does not give me the middle click function, pressing two fingers on the pad itself however does the middle-click action.

I recently found out I had this function on my touch pad and three fiingers at once activates the right click. I can’t believe I’ve never realized this no my laptop. I think they need to supply a book with the laptop outlining what all the unique shortcut are.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:18:30 +0000

I only created it to detect clicking. I don’t see any way that I could simulate a drag using AutoHotKey.

By: Hugues

Hugues — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:15:09 +0000

Very nice utility.
Unfortunately it only seems to detect clicks, and therefore doesn’t allow middle-button drags.
Would anyone have a solution for that?

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eburhan.com » Touchpad ile mouse orta tu?u kullanmak — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:52:19 +0000

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By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:55:19 +0000

Glad this has helped a bunch of people!

Anonymous wrote:

I never really use the left button since tapping the pad does the same job. So my left is assigned as right-click, and my right button is assigned as middle-click, there you go !

That would take a lot of getting used to for me.

Sridhar Katakam wrote:

Check out PowerPro. It can do these and more easily w/o using multiple programs.

I didn’t see anything in PowerPro that would let me configure my touchpad for the middle mouse button though.

Ward wrote:

I use the rocker gesture to navigate between tabs in Opera. Right-Left for next tab, Left-Right for previous tab.

TBH, it should be default and everyone should be taught this shortcut and worship me as its inventor.

I do love that gesture as well, but I use middle click more. I normally use the backspace key for navigating backwards anyway.

Ritter wrote:

I have the two buttons however, I rarely have to use them. Pressing both buttons at the same time does not give me the middle click function, pressing two fingers on the pad itself however does the middle-click action.

That’s pretty cool, I wish my laptop’s touchpad did that.

funTomas wrote:

I’ve been using both buttons to simulate middle button for ages. It’s a standard feature of Logitech’s touchpads. Nevertheless, isn’t a wireless mouse a better opt?

I normally have an external mouse hooked up to my laptop, but there are always instances where it is not. When I’m on a plane, or in a public area it can be touch to whip out a mouse and have room to use it.

By: funTomas

funTomas — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:38:22 +0000

I’ve been using both buttons to simulate middle button for ages. It’s a standard feature of Logitech’s touchpads. Nevertheless, isn’t a wireless mouse a better opt?

By: Ritter

Ritter — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 14:04:34 +0000

I have the two buttons however, I rarely have to use them. Pressing both buttons at the same time does not give me the middle click function, pressing two fingers on the pad itself however does the middle-click action.

By: Ward

Ward — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:29:14 +0000

I use the rocker gesture to navigate between tabs in Opera. Right-Left for next tab, Left-Right for previous tab.

TBH, it should be default and everyone should be taught this shortcut and worship me as its inventor.

By: Erhan

Erhan — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 09:40:20 +0000

The Middle-Click Simulator is very well working. Thank you very much.

By: Sridhar Katakam

Sridhar Katakam — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 01:36:12 +0000

Check out PowerPro. It can do these and more easily w/o using multiple programs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:45:59 +0000

I never really use the left button since tapping the pad does the same job. So my left is assigned as right-click, and my right button is assigned as middle-click, there you go !

By: Michael Dobrofsky

Michael Dobrofsky — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:21:09 +0000

Thanks for this…I was wondering how or if I could do this just last night on my brand new lappy. Read my mind.