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IBM sold a mouse with a pointing stick in the location where a scroll wheel is common now. A pointing stick on a mid-1990s-era Toshiba laptop. The two buttons below the keyboard act as a computer mouse: the top button is used for left-clicking while the bottom button is used for right-clicking.
Closeup of a touchpad on an Acer CB5-311 laptop Closeup of a touchpad on a MacBook 2015 laptop. A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device.Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen.
A computer mouse Touchpad and a pointing stick on an IBM notebook Trackpoint An elder 3D mouse 3D pointing device. A pointing device is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer.
Chromebook (sometimes stylized in lowercase as chromebook) is a line of laptops, desktops, tablets and all-in-one computers that run ChromeOS, a proprietary operating system developed by Google. Chromebooks are optimised for web access.
A mouse button is an electric switch on a computer mouse which can be pressed (“clicked”) to select or interact with an element of a graphical user interface. Mouse buttons are most commonly implemented as miniature snap-action switches (micro switches). The three-button scrollmouse has become the most commonly available design.
Reverse U+23F4 ⏴ — Stop U+23F9 ⏹ #5110B Stop: To identify the control or the indicator to stop the active function. Rewind, fast backwards U+23EA ⏪ — To identify the switch or switch position by which a faster than normal run (e.g. of tape) is started in the indicated direction. Fast forward: U+23E9 ⏩ #5108B Fast run; fast speed
Press, and hold down, the button on the mouse or other pointing device, to "grab" the object "Drag" the object to the desired location by moving the pointer to this one "Drop" the object by releasing the button; Dragging requires more physical effort than moving the same pointing device without holding down any buttons.
In modern Microsoft Windows text editing applications, it is primarily used to return the cursor to the beginning of the line where the cursor is located. When the text is not editable, the Home key is used to return to the beginning of the document; this can also be done in editable text if the key is pressed along with Control.