The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Press 3 fingers for notepad?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Bily42, Sep 29, 2010.

  1. Bily42

    Bily42 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    27
    Messages:
    145
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    When I press 3 fingers at the top of the mouse pad (not "tap" but "press"), notepad comes up.
    I installed the latest Scrybe and just discovered this because you should be able to press 3 fingers with Scrybe to bring up the gesture box.
    Weird, but a search on the internet reveals that this is a default "feature" on some mouse pads.
    Do M11x standard installs have this feature? I never tried this BEFORE the Scrybe install.
    Possible to change the setting from notepad to something else?
     
    Bily42, Sep 29, 2010
    #1
  2. c3Rhcno

    c3Rhcno Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    17
    Messages:
    49
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    Doesn't do that on mine, but I don't have scrybe installed on mine, just the basic Synoptics driver
     
    c3Rhcno, Sep 29, 2010
    #2
  3. Alienware-Joel

    Alienware-Joel Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    14
    Messages:
    113
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Doesn't work on my R2.
     
    Alienware-Joel, Sep 29, 2010
    #3
  4. Bily42

    Bily42 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    27
    Messages:
    145
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Interesting....I just installed Scrybe over the drivers which came with my R2, because the first time I installed it, I UNINSTALLED the Synaptic Touch pad, rebooted and when I tried to install Scrybe, it complained I did not have the proper hardware to run it. Everything seems to work fine except for the "notepad surprise". :)
     
    Bily42, Sep 29, 2010
    #4
  5. ellalan

    ellalan Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    336
    Messages:
    1,262
    Likes Received:
    82
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Have you tried pressing with three fingers on top part of the touch pad, whenever I press on the top section of the touch pad the notepad comes up, whenever I press in the center of the touchpad the control panel comes up.
     
    ellalan, Oct 29, 2010
    #5
  6. jeremyshaw

    jeremyshaw Big time Idiot

    Reputations:
    791
    Messages:
    3,210
    Likes Received:
    231
    Trophy Points:
    131
    If you installed the synaptic drivers from synaptic's website instead of Dell's Support site, then "three tap down" is defaulted to opening Notepad (under every other application window, but nevertheless useful for me).
     
    jeremyshaw, Oct 29, 2010
    #6