Warrren Anderson
Level 1
(12 points)
Q: Can I Turn Off Gestures?
Last week lightening hit my house and nuked my mid-2011 iMac. I bought a new 21.5 inch machine. This comes with El Capitan. I also got a magic mouse 2. I find it very difficult to do some basic things like page down in a window with scroll bars. Also some sites, particularly map sites like this one: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/ are unusable with mouse gestures enabled. In older OS Xs one could turn off gestures. I tried to disable gestures with System Preferences but with every option unchecked they are still enabled. Is this impossible with El Capitan?
The up and down buttons on my magic keyboard don't page up and down. Do I have to buy a keyboard with a numeric pad to get the page up and down buttons? If I buy an Apple one-button wired mouse can I use it without gestures? I use the track pad on lap tops but find mouse gestures on a desk top computer to be very difficult for many things like pointing and clicking, selecting text or paging down without scrolling as wel. Has Apple decided that I have to use gestures?
iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), OS X Yosemite (10.10), 10.10.1
Gino_Cerullo
Level 3
(553 points)
No, Apple has not decided anything for you, but you bought a mouse that is based on gesture control so that is the way it is going to work.
Do you not still have your old mouse from your previous system? Can you not use that one if you are used to the way it works?
Also, you don't have to use a mouse made by Apple. Many third party mouses work fine with the Mac.
