Touchpad gestures for mobile devices

Mobile devices often need to be operated via a touchpad and do not always have hardware mouse buttons.

By default, mouse actions are mapped to the following touchpad gestures:

Mouse action Touchpad gesture
Click with left mouse button Tap one finger on the touchpad (single-tap)
Right-click (right mouse button) Tap two fingers on the touchpad (single-tap)
Middle-click (wheel button) Tap three fingers on the touchpad (single-tap)
Move cursor Drag your finger on the touchpad
Scroll Slide two fingers at the same time

You can change the scroll direction in the touchpad settings. See Keyboard and Mouse.

In Google Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox, you can also zoom a web page with two fingers, as on a laptop. Spread the fingers apart to zoom in. Pinch them together to zoom out. The gesture doesn’t zoom pages in the built-in browser.

Touchpad gestures for mobile devices

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