gephi/gephi — Issue #495: Graph navigation is difficult on a macbook
Author: davidjurgens
Created: 2011-12-16 02:45:33+00:00
State: open

I often switch between using Gephi on a deskop and laptop. However, when I try to interact with graphs on my laptop, navigating the graph preview is nearly impossible. Specifically, I can zoom in and out, but clicking and dragging to move the screen won't work. Normally on the desktop, i can right click and drag, but on the macbook trackpad using two fingers to right click and drag results in zooming. This isn't Gephi's fault as the two finger drag is getting interpreted by the mouse gesture system. However, there is no easy way to move the graph otherwise, so without hooking up an external mouse, i'm stuck not being able to move the screen. This makes Gephi effectively unusable without an alternate method of navigation.