turn off trackpad selection by hovering

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turn off trackpad selection by hovering

My shiny new MacBook Pro is driving me nuts in 2 ways:

1. If I allow the cursor to hover over anything for just a few seconds, it opens. This is beyond annoying. It is easy to stop this behavior in Windows, but I can't find anything in the trackpad controls in System Preferences to turn it off. I do not want anything to open unless I tap. Is the control for this buried somewhere?

2. The cursor also periodically latches on to a screen and when I move the cursor the whole screen moves. Also annoying.

Do I need an exorcist?

Clay

MacBook Pro, iOS 10.3, It't 10.13.3, but menu out of date

Posted on Feb 27, 2018 3:14 AM

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DiscipleC Author

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Feb 27, 2018 4:28 AM in response to dominic23

Unfortunately that has no effect on the problem. The behavior I am talking about happens when there is NO click. Selecting by hovering is a common trackpad/mouse optional behavior, but on all other computers I have used you simply go into the controls for the device and turn that behavior off. I can not find a way to do that on my MacBook Pro.

Clay

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DiscipleC Author

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Feb 27, 2018 4:40 AM in response to DiscipleC

Here are a couple of instances that just occurred. (These happened to be in Outlook, but the behavior is universal.)

1. I wanted to delete a spam message. I went to the trash can icon to do that. I hovered a few seconds too long (without clicking) and the 2 messages following that one were deleted too.

2. I decided to post this addendum with the above example. I went to the link in the email message about about an earlier reply that would take me here and it activated almost instantly before I even had a chance to click.

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