Stop accidental zoom by trackpad

[lipwak]

Hi,

I have a new Macbook Air and my hand is brushing the trackpad more than with my old MacBook Pro. In the past I have tried to disable the view zoom trackpad gestures. I have all trackpad gestures off in the Mac's system settings except tap to click (using the latest version of Ventura) and as far as I know have OO set up to ignore any gestures that might change the view zoom yet it happens alot. I try to scroll vertically but if I am off abit, it interprets that as a horizontal swipe and who knows what size the view will be after one or two swipes.Is there a setting to ignore all changes to the view from the trackpad? I want "fit width" for all of my documents.

I have read that if I close a doc with that view that it will open in that view. Usually it does but not always. I want that to be the default behavior. As far as I know, there isn't a setting that will do that, only the last viewed setting...

Thanks.

Cheers,

John

[MrProgrammer]

• Is there a setting to ignore all changes to the view from the trackpad?
• I have read that if I close a doc with that view that it will open in that view. … I want that to be the default behavior.

Both of these are discusssed in plenty of other topics on the forum. Search the Forum before posting using the box to the right of the New Topic button. For example, the term zoom finds 112 matches in the Mac OSX forum, though not all of them would apply to your situation.

[RoryOF]

I recollect that there have been reports (elsewhere) of incidental trackpad events caused by flexing of a laptop chassis, the laptop being on a soft surface, rather than on a rigid tabletop. In general, a soft surface, such as on one's lap, or on a blanket, is not advised for laptops, as the air vents can become obstructed and the machine overheat.

In addition to checking the surface on which the laptop is standing, a workaround might be to either disable the trackpad, or cover it with a piece of cardboard, and use a plug-in USB mouse instead.

[lipwak]

lol, thanks.