DwellClick User Guide

Dragging with DwellClick

Dragging

To start a drag with DwellClick you can either:

• press Fn to show the popup panel, then click the drag button.
• click the drag button in the floating control panel.
• press the configured keyboard shortcut; see Preferences → Keyboard.

When dragging, DwellClick will hold down the mouse button for you while you move the mouse. DwellClick will keep holding down the button until you stop moving.

After a drag has started, pressing Esc or click any mouse button will abandon the drag.

Drag hold

While dragging you can press Fn to hold the drag. The colored highlight will start to pulsate to indicate that the drag is held. In this state, DwellClick will not release the drag even when you stop moving the mouse. When you want to end the drag, press Fn again, or Esc.

If you configure a custom keyboard shortcut for "Drag", "Drag and Hold" or "Show Popup", the same shortcut will hold a drag.

Auto drag

To use auto drag, simply point at the control to be dragged, and DwellClick drags automatically. Auto drag works with the following controls:

• window title bars;
• resize handles (window edges and corners, sidebar edges, etc.);
• slider controls;
• scroll bars.

DwellClick may fail to detect these controls if the application use a non-standard user-interface.

Quick drag

Quick drag takes a bit of practice to get used to, so it’s off by default. Turn it on in Preferences → Advanced.

To use quick drag, move the mouse immediately as DwellClick performs a click.

You can adjust the quick drag time limit. Set a longer time to make it easier to do a drag, but bear in mind it this makes it more likely you will sometimes trigger quick drag by mistake. Experiment to find a setting that works well for you.

Quick drag will not let you drag a dock item off the dock. This is by design, because it is otherwise too easy to accidentally drag items off the dock by mistake.