Three-finger drag gesture in OS X not working when fingers are vertical?

homm2011-09-25 10:01:41

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homm, 2011-09-25 10:01:41

Duplicate my question from superuser.com.
On Mac OS X Lion, you can enable the three-finger drag gesture in the trackpad settings. This gesture works great if you follow the video instructions and place your fingers horizontally:

The problem is that when I use my laptop in a prone position, holding my fingers like that is unrealistic, the hand rotates 90˚, and the fingers are placed vertically, something like this:

And in in this position, the system very often recognizes a three-finger gesture as a two-finger gesture.
Not sure if this is a bug or a feature? If a feature, is it possible to turn it off? If it's a bug, can someone who has the 10.7.2 update installed check to see if it's fixed there?

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kocherman, 2011-09-25
@kocherman

Strange somehow ... I checked it horizontally, vertically, with a triangle - everything works. By the way, my trackpad is buggy due to invisible fat residues. After wiping everything works perfectly ...

GruBBy, 2011-09-25
@GruBBy

Just for the sake of interest, I also checked it on MB Pro, with a triangle - it works. I checked almost every way I could think of ... everything worked. Is the lion original? It was similar on iMac + trackpad ... Only mission control (swipe down gesture) did not work for me.

diews, 2011-09-25
@diews

10.7.1 new air
Both on the built-in and on the magic trackpad everything is ok - and the trackpad twirled and hooked fingers.

Alexander Yudaev, 2013-03-22
@oYASo

Taking a netbook with 1GB of RAM without the possibility of expanding it to 2GB is suicide. All current browsers at > 15 input gobble up memory completely and begin to shamelessly blunt.
I won’t tell you how the atom N2600/N2800 works, but my former ASUS 1001p with N450 was not the fastest friend, although it so happened that it was the most valuable laptop for me, more than once saving my skin.
Working on it in Visual Studio was extremely problematic. If VS 2008 was even more or less running, then VS 2010 hung the system tightly. If you use VS, it is better to clearly consult with the owners how fast it runs. But if we compare N2600/N2800 from this graph and N450 from this graph , we can see that the difference in performance is 2-2.5 times. AMD from your list is faster than N2600, but loses to N2800.
Although, the overall speed, of course, is still sad.
I played NFS Porcshe Unleashed on my friend - everything ran fast.
I think it makes no sense to advise specific models, because. the filling of all netbooks is the same (in any case, percent, memory, hard, graphics). Choose the one you like in the maximum configuration for the minimum money and go.

Nikolai Turnaviotov, 2013-03-22
@foxmuldercp

I don’t know how it is in your area, but at one of the top Ukrainian Internet stores Rozetka, at the price of a netbook in local 3k, approximately the same diagonal, a normal laptop on Core I3 is taken .
Think further in this direction.
A pack of netbooks went through me to drag / play and play around, and so the best work on it was an RDP / ssh client on a normal machine.
And you can correct a script or a piece of code in notepad if you have access to svn

Laroy, 2013-03-22
@Laroy

If the conditions are so tough, you need an ultra-budget netbook, and you are an asus fan, then take the 1025C.
In general, I advise you to pay attention to iru nano 555.

slagovskiy, 2013-03-22
@slagovskiy

I have a camping Asus 1215N. ru.asus.com/Eee/Eee_PC/Eee_PC_1215N/ but it's better to read here w3bsit3-dns.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=193679
Despite the declared maximum 4GB of memory, 8GB work fine there.
Excellent video card, or rather two.
Double-headed atom with HT.
Good, for a netbook, screen resolution.