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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic"
      style="task"
      id="mouse-touchpad-click">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="mouse"/>

    <revision pkgversion="3.7" date="2012-11-16" status="outdated"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.10" date="2013-10-29" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-28" status="final"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.29" date="2018-08-20" status="review"/>
    <revision pkgversion="3.33" date="2019-07-20" status="candidate"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2013, 2015</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Click, drag, or scroll using taps and gestures on your
    touchpad.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Click, drag, or scroll with the touchpad</title>

  <p>You can click, double-click, drag, and scroll using only your touchpad,
  without separate hardware buttons.</p>

  <note>
    <p><link xref="touchscreen-gestures">Touchscreen gestures</link> are
    covered separately.</p>
  </note>

<section id="tap">
  <title>Tap to click</title>

  <p>You can tap your touchpad to click instead of using a button.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> 
      overview and start typing <gui>Mouse &amp; Touchpad</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click on <gui>Mouse &amp; Touchpad</gui> to open the panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In the <gui>Touchpad</gui> section, make sure <gui>Touchpad</gui> is
      set to <gui>ON</gui>.</p>
      <note>
        <p>The <gui>Touchpad</gui> section only appears if your system has a
        touchpad.</p>
      </note>
    </item>
   <item>
      <p>Set <gui>Tap to click</gui> to <gui>ON</gui>.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <list>
    <item>
      <p>To click, tap on the touchpad.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>To double-click, tap twice.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>To drag an item, double-tap but don’t lift your finger after the
      second tap. Drag the item where you want it, then lift your finger to
      drop.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>If your touchpad supports multi-finger taps, right-click by tapping
      with two fingers at once. Otherwise, you still need to use hardware
      buttons to right-click. See <link xref="a11y-right-click"/> for a method
      of right-clicking without a second mouse button.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>If your touchpad supports multi-finger taps,
      <link xref="mouse-middleclick">middle-click</link> by tapping with three
      fingers at once.</p>
    </item>
  </list>

  <note>
    <p>When tapping or dragging with multiple fingers, make sure your fingers
    are spread far enough apart. If your fingers are too close, your computer
    may think they’re a single finger.</p>
  </note>

</section>

<section id="twofingerscroll">
  <title>Two finger scroll</title>

  <p>You can scroll using your touchpad using two fingers.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> 
      overview and start typing <gui>Mouse &amp; Touchpad</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click on <gui>Mouse &amp; Touchpad</gui> to open the panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In the <gui>Touchpad</gui> section, make sure <gui>Touchpad</gui> is
      set to <gui>ON</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Set <gui>Two-finger Scrolling</gui> to <gui>ON</gui>.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <p>When this is selected, tapping and dragging with one finger will work as
  normal, but if you drag two fingers across any part of the touchpad, it will
  scroll instead. Move your fingers between the top and bottom of your touchpad
  to scroll up and down, or move your fingers across the touchpad to scroll
  sideways. Be careful to space your fingers a bit apart. If your fingers are
  too close together, they just look like one big finger to your touchpad.</p>

  <note>
    <p>Two-finger scrolling may not work on all touchpads.</p>
  </note>

</section>

<section id="contentsticks">
  <title>Natural scrolling</title>

  <p>You can drag content as if sliding a physical piece of paper using the
  touchpad.</p>

  <steps>
    <item>
      <p>Open the <gui xref="shell-introduction#activities">Activities</gui> 
      overview and start typing <gui>Mouse &amp; Touchpad</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Click on <gui>Mouse &amp; Touchpad</gui> to open the panel.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>In the <gui>Touchpad</gui> section, make sure <gui>Touchpad</gui> is
      set to <gui>ON</gui>.</p>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>Set <gui>Natural Scrolling</gui> to <gui>ON</gui>.</p>
    </item>
  </steps>

  <note>
    <p>This feature is also known as <em>Reverse Scrolling</em>.</p>
  </note>

</section>

</page>