I'm liking my new laptop but hating the touch pad. Specifically, I hate the buttons the touch pad.
But then it hit - why do I even need to use those buttons? Why can't I get clever and use a different approach?
My solution: map caps lock to the left mouse button.
This is trivial to do in autohotkey. I just added the following to the standard hotkey configuration I use:
Capslock::LButton
The harder part is training my brain to actually use it. I initially set this up on my laptop that uses a mouse and a full keyboard. It's odd to control the keyboard click away from the mouse, but also weirdly satisfying. If nothing else, I'm psyched to be putting the caps lock key to a real use, rather than just disabling it.
This may just work.
If this works, I'll have to figure out a key to map the right mouse button to. Baby steps, though, baby steps.
Update: I'm really liking this setup. This approach may just be crazy enough to work. I've added Alt-Capslock as the method for accessing the right mouse click. It's actually pretty easy to type, and doesn't appear to conflict with anything. Here are the latest rules:
!Capslock::RButton Capslock::LButton
I'm hating that it doesn't scroll, but I'm betting this is fixable, just not by me...yet.
ReplyDeleteCJ - you're right, there are probably ways to tweak the touch pad experience so that it's optimal, but I'm with you, I haven't got the foggiest idea yet how to do that.
ReplyDeleteI was doing some research yesterday and was surprised to learn that having two separate, physical buttons is actually a mark of lower quality. Apparently the seamless all in one touchpad is what all the cool kids are using these days.
Who knew?
Yeah, but if they don't work...I've had my Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 10 for 6 hours now. I was so incredibly excited to open it, but quickly hated it. I have to touch the touchpad as many as 17 times to get it to take. This is a piece of shit.
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