Way to use both trackpad and mouse at the same time?

I would like to be able to use my trackpad for pinching, rotating, zooming, etc while using my mouse for mousing around the screen.

Is this possible?? Can't seem to find any setting for this in Sys Prefs or other.

Thanks!

2.4GHz MacBook, 4GB, 320GB 7200RPM, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 24" LED Cinema Display (Soon?)

Posted on Nov 10, 2008 3:25 PM

20 replies

Jeremy Riga Author

Level 1

35 points

Nov 29, 2008 11:59 AM in response to Sven Werdehausen

THAT DID IT! Thank you very much. I KNEW there had to be a simple command to do this in terminal!

AWESOME. I copied and pasted your line in to terminal, restarted, and when OS X came back up both the trackpad and mouse were working at the same time!

Again, thanks very much!

Nov 10, 2008 5:05 PM in response to Jeremy Riga

What's preventing you from doing this now? Do you see an error message of some kind? Plugging in a mouse to my MacBook doesn't prevent any kind if trackpad options...

-Doug

deltatux

Level 2

491 points

Nov 10, 2008 5:38 PM in response to Jeremy Riga

try the logitech drivers ... i have a Logitech Bluetooth mouse attached to mine and there are no problems using both. I have installed the Logitech drivers.

deltatux

Nov 12, 2008 10:07 AM in response to Jeremy Riga

I don't have my mba on me, but isn't there an option under the mouse/track pad system preference to disable the trackpad when a mouse is attached? If so, uncheck this option if it is checked.

Glor

Nov 20, 2008 11:38 PM in response to Kurnalbert

Welcome to the Apple Discussions!

We haven't heard back from Jeremy for a couple of days. Did you see my suggestion above about moving your user's "Preferences" folder?

-Doug

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Way to use both trackpad and mouse at the same time?