Hi, Barbara. Ah, light dawns on marble head! Yes, VO plus turning
counterclockwise did the trick. Thank you!
Matthew Chao
At 04:28 PM 11/4/2012, you wrote:
Did you press vo and use the gesture of turning a knob
counterclockwise on the track pad to turn track pad commander off?
Barbara
On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:13 PM, Matthew Chao <mattc...@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi, Esther. Didn't have this problem in Snow Leopard. Believe
there was a way to disable the trackpad or at least desensitize
it. Now, it drives me crazy. I don't have a separate MagicPad,
only the trackpad that's on my MacBook Pro. Any additional ideas
to stop the crazy mouse from running all over the place would be
greatly appreciated. Shouldn't have to resort to Bounty towels to
stop this. I've always sadi, a good mouse is a dead mouse. <grin>.
>
> Matthew Chao
>
> At 01:34 PM 11/4/2012, you wrote:
>> Hello Matthew and Anne,
>>
>> I think an alternative if you have a Magic Trackpad is to use
the setting to ignore TrackPad if a mouse or Magic TrackPad is
connected. You could set this in System Preferences >
Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad and check the box to ignore the
built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present. Then
you could put the Magic Trackpad someplace safely out of range of
accidental touches.
>>
>> A low tech solution someone suggested was to cut a section of
heavy paper towel and tape it over the Trackpad region. The claim
was that Bounty paper towel is thick enough so that the Trackpad
won't activate when accidentally touched. I haven't tried this myself.
>>
>> Anne's correct that there doesn't seem to be a way to otherwise
disable the Trackpad. I recall that Gordon asked about this for an
earlier version of Mac OS X.
>>
>> HTH. Cheers,
>>
>> Esther
>>
>> On Nov 4, 2012, at 8:17 AM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello Matthew,
>> >
>> > I don't think there is a way to turn off the trackpad in ML. I
was looking for this facility for a client just the other day and
couldn't find it. I suppose if you turn on the Trackpad Commander,
the mouse won't go skating all over the place.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Anne
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On 4 Nov 2012, at 18:40, Matthew Chao <mattc...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi, Folks. I upgraded to Mountain Lion on my MacBook Pro,
and the trackpad now is very sensitive when my thumbs brush across
it. I would prefer not to have the trackpad active. How do I
disable the trackpad? Thanks in advance.
>> >>
>> >> Matthew Chao
>> >>
>> >> P.S. I looked in the braille instructions for VoiceOver, but
readily couldn't find anything about disabling the trackpad.
>> >>
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