{"id":5255,"date":"2011-01-24T10:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/?page_id=5255"},"modified":"2011-01-24T12:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T17:01:26","slug":"disabling-macintosh-laptop-trackpads","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/macintosh-related\/disabling-macintosh-laptop-trackpads\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling Macintosh Laptop Trackpads&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ignore-trackpad.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ignore-trackpad.png\" width=\"400\" height=\"362\" \/>The Macintosh Laptops (Macbook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air), all have built-in Trackpads&#8230;  I believe that people will tell you, &#8220;The trackpads just work&#8221;, others though simply don&#8217;t like to use Trackpads.<\/p>\n<p>Sometime during the Mac OS 10.5 era, roughly around the time of 10.5.6 being released, a setting disappeared from the TrackPad system preference.  This preference stated &#8220;Ignore Trackpad when mouse is present&#8221;.  Quite simply, with this turned on, the Trackpad would be disabled if a mouse is\u00c2\u00a0added to the system.<\/p>\n<p>This preference has moved to the &#8220;Mouse &amp; Trackpad&#8221; tab of the Universal Access Preference Pane.  Apparently, someone at Apple has decided that this option is better suited for the Universal Access suite.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think this is a better location for this option?  If you have any suggestions or comments, please feel free to leave them in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Macintosh Laptops (Macbook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air), all have built-in Trackpads&#8230; I believe that people will tell you, &#8220;The trackpads just work&#8221;, others though simply don&#8217;t like to use Trackpads. Sometime during the Mac OS 10.5 era, roughly around the time of 10.5.6 being released, a setting disappeared from the TrackPad system preference. This <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/macintosh-related\/disabling-macintosh-laptop-trackpads\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":218,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5255"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5255\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.schollnick.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The constant WPCACHEHOME must be set in the file wp-config.php and point at the WP Super Cache plugin directory. -->