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This week in KDE: tap-to-click by default (pointieststick.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At lot of old laptops (including mine) have separate mouse buttons and tap-to-click. It was nice being able to use the separate mouse buttons when you didn't want to risk jiggling the cursor while clicking. Unfortunately nowadays all touchpads have the buttons integrated with the touchpad.

[–] xycu 2 points 1 year ago

ThinkPads still have real mouse buttons, at least. And some who copy the ThinkPad, like HP Zbook.