The touchpad controls the mouse cursor on the screen. As you slide your finger across the touchpad, the cursor will follow this movement. The Precision Touchpad (PTP) is designed to provide a more uniform, smooth, and accurate touchpad experience. The precision touchpad includes added technology features that help recognize and prevent unintentional gestures such as accidental taps, gestures, and pointer movement.
Many applications support precision touchpad gestures that use one or more fingers, however, some gestures may not be supported by the specific application or program you are using. The Nitro 5 touchpad supports the following gestures:
Note: The touchpad is sensitive to finger movement; the lighter the touch, the better the response. Please keep the touchpad and your fingers dry and clean.
Single-finger slide
Slide a finger across the touchpad to move the cursor.
Single-finger press or tap
Press the touchpad down, or lightly tap the touchpad with your finger, to perform a 'click', which will select or start an item. Quickly repeat the tap to perform a double tap or 'double click'.
Two-finger press
Lightly tap the touchpad with two fingers to perform a 'right click'. In the Start screen, this will toggle the app commands. In most apps this will open a context menu related to the selected item.
Two-finger slide
Swiftly scroll through web pages, documents and playlists by placing two fingers on the touchpad and moving both in any direction.
Two-finger pinch
Zoom in and out of photos, maps and documents with a simple finger-and-thumb gesture.
Three-finger press
Lightly tap the touchpad with three fingers to open the Search windows.
Three-finger swipe
Swipe across the touchpad with three fingers.
- Swipe up to open Task View. Move the cursor over a window and tap the touchpad to select that window, or swipe downwards to exit Task View.
- Swipe down to minimize all open windows and show Desktop; swipe upwards to restore the minimized windows.
- Swipe right to switch between open windows.
Four-finger press
Lightly tap the touchpad with four fingers to open the Notifications and Calendar.
Four-finger swipe
Swipe across the touchpad with four fingers.
- Swipe up to open Task View. Move the cursor over a window and tap the touchpad to select that window, or swipe downwards to exit Task View.
- Swipe down to minimize all open windows and show Desktop; swipe upwards to restore the minimized windows.
