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I need help with Gimp 2.10.38 and trackpad
I recently updated my Mac to 15.1.1 Sequoia and now when I open .jpeg images in gimp, the track pad will not resize by pinching in/out like it did before the upgrade. I then updated Gimp to 2.10.38, ...
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Invert swipe direction in "Swipe between full-screen apps" trackpad gesture
In the Trackpad gestures available here, it shows Swipe between full-screen apps.
The description says: "Swipe left or right with four fingers2 to move between desktops and full-screen apps."...
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Force click without an apple trackpad?
On a macbook, we can use force click on trackpad to loop up words or do some other things.
However, an "ordinary" mouse does not have the hardware for force click.
How can we trigger force ...
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How to set up a shortcut for 2 finger trackpad scrolling?
I would like to set up a keyboard shortcut (say Command + Left Arrow and command + Right Arrow) to do the same thing as 2 finger Left/Right scrolling.
Or, map the mousewheel to this input.
How to do ...
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Prevent that when an app is assigned to All desktops, then while switching spaces it becomes visible during space switch scrolling
When I set an app to be available on all spaces
Then while while scrolling to another Space using the 3/4 finger swipe gesture the Apps are visible until I completely switch to the space and than ...
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Is there a way to realize two finger dragging and three finger rolling?
Three finger is more dull than the two finger, which is more suitable for simple up and down scroll sliding, while the two finger occupy less area of the touch panel, and the resistance during sliding ...
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Disabling three finger scroll to top on Firefox without disabling three finger back/forwards
If I switch "swipe with three fingers" to two fingers, Mac disables the "three finger swipe up" (e.g. page up/down). But I want to keep three fingers to go back and forth (...
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Why is Chrome on MacOS inconsistently not recognizing 3 finger swipes?
I have used three finger forward/back swipe on MacOS for almost a decade in Chrome for forward/backwards on pages. This has consistently worked well and been flawless.
Within the past month or so, ...
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Is it possible to add vertical functionality to the 3-finger swipe on macOS?
MBP 15" user - 95% of my input to it is via the trackpad, I LOVE the 3-finger swipe navigation.
Saying "Swipe left/right/up/down" implies the end result of the movement, not the actual ...
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Macintosh- and Windows-compatible wired mouse with acceleration scrolling?
I would like a mouse that is compatible with both Macintosh and Windows (although if I have to buy a different mouse for each platform, that's okay), and that you can scroll up and down with ...
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M1 MacBook Pro jumps text while typing
On the M1 MacBook Pro, when I am typing it will frequently jump to another part of the text area. This is most pronounced when selecting text using the keyboard (shift-left..., shift-option-left...) ...
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Make a keyboard shortcut to do three finger swipes
How do I create a keyboard combination that can be held down to treat the successive mouse moves as if they were three-finger-on-trackpad movements?
So I can hold down e.g. cmd and shift, then move ...
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Catalyst apps don't seem to support three-finger swipe gestures
I finally updated to Catalina, and it doesn't seem that any Catalyst apps I've tested support three-finger swipe gestures - they seem to expect them to be done with two fingers regardless of this ...
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Sidecar: use tap gesture as "click" with a mouse
I'm using Sidecar with iPad Pro 11 and MacBook Pro 15 2016.
I noticed, that I could use Apple Pencil to interact with the interface elements on the second screen, e.g. open a new empty tab in Safari.
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Three-finder side swipe between apps lagging, swiping up for mission control and then side-swiping produces no lag
I am experiencing something like a 1-3 second lag only when side-swiping with 3 fingers between apps/desktops.
However, if I first swipe up with 3 fingers to enable mission control, then everything ...
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Old MacBook air's trackpad's right click is failing, is there a workaround gesture?
My old MacBook Air is old.
I have to push hard to get right click to work. It is probably something mechanical that could be addressed at a service center.
But in the mean time, is there anything I ...
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Mission Control freezes. Restarting Dock doesn't help
I use standard settings to open Mission Control in MacOS Mojave 10.14.4 on MacBook Pro.
Normally swipe up with 3 fingers move all windows into Mission Control mode and I can switch to any available ...
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Magic Trackpad 2 became less responsive
I've been happily using Magic Trackpad 2 for exactly a year and a week (suspicious ;)) and today it started acting strange - I'm using only three gestures mainly (dictionary lookup, two finger scroll ...
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Swipe up/down on window top to maximize/resize to default size
I upgraded my Mac's OS from macOS Sierra to macOS High Sierra today and found one feature disappeared: I used to swipe up on top empty area of a window to maximize the window to "fill" the full screen ...
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Fullscreen on multiple displays and swiping moves all screens
This worked up until May 16th.
Before and after updating to macOS Sierra 10.12.5 did not solve problem.
Config / Specs:
MacBook Pro
Dell monitor
iPad using Duet app
Previous functionality
I could ...
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How to set keep touch on Mac touchpad?
I am rookie in Mac and I came from Ubuntu
On my previous Dell laptop if I needed to mark some part of text in order to copy or delete it I just made one short touch on touchpad and immediately second ...
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What does middle click do in terminal?
For a while now I noticed that 'randomly', my terminal will paste in recent command/log as input.
I finally narrowed it down to the fact that I have jitouch installed with 3 finger tap as 'middle-...
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Reduce size of 'bottom corner' for seconday click
Is there a way to reduce the size of the 'bottom' corner of the touchpad that responds as the secondary click? It's way to big and I would like to make it the bottom corner, not bottom quadrant.
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How do we extend trackpad touch area all the way to the edge in OS X?
For example, when touching on the very edges of the trackpad, OS X ignores gestures. In Linux, I can use the full trackpad.
How do I use the full trackpad in OS X? How do I tell OS X not to ignore ...
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4623:011a multitouch monitor
At work we have a multitouch monitor which apparently is a USB Human Interface Device (HID). It identifies itself as vendor 0x4623 product 0x011a, apparently produced by Beijing Honghe Technology ...
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EL Capitan and 3-finger selection
After updating to el capitan I've noticed one annoying problem.
When I select something using 3-fingers gesture I should wait about a second until cmd + c copy operation actually copies something to ...
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Touch LCD with Mac Mini
I bought my first Mac Mini today. I'm using touch screen LCD PL2735M (http://www.iiyama.com/gb_en/products/prolite-t2735msc-2/). When I click on screen, mouse is moved to that place, but no click is ...
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Disable two-finger horizontal scroll
Is there any way I could disable two finger swipes for horizontal scrolling on the Mac. I want to configure it for moving between tabs (using a 3rd party app called BetterTouchTool)
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Oh I should ...
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How to fix Right-click issue in WebStorm on Mac
I am using the BetterTouchTool Version 1.47, and configured that a right click should be simulated using a tap with two fingers using the magic mouse (see picture).
The problem is that WebStorm 11.0....
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OSX Yosemite Can't disable four-finger swipe
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I want to set a custom gesture for the four finger swipe left/right, but I noticed that four finger swipe was switching between spaces. I went in to system preferences->Trackpad and changed "...
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Yosemite 10.10.4 nowhere to set three finger tap to access Dictionary
I'm in OS X, and I bought my mac from one of my friends. He bought this April,2015.
This is my Force touch trackpad. It's come from the fifth in the first picture. I know you may not understand the ...
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How to swipe up into Mission Control and then swipe back down again without lifting fingers?
Okay, weird and sort of unnecessary question, but I'd love some help if you're able.
In Mountain Lion, you could swipe up with three fingers into Mission Control and then swipe back down to exit ...
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Hidden features of Safari? [closed]
While using Safari, I accidentally three-finger tapped on a link and Preview of that web page popped up, like below. I think it's pretty useful.
Do you know any other hidden features of Safari?
I ...
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Recently scrolling up and down gesture triggers page change gesture
Recently my mid 2012 Retina Macbook Pro's trackpad has started exhibiting some strange behavior. Attempting to scroll up or down using the two finger gesture randomly seems to trigger the page back/...
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How to bring back multi-touch gestures after it crashes without reboot?
After a clean install of Yosemite, multi-touch gestures have stopped working on two occasions on my Macbook Pro 2011. Each time, the symptoms are the same:
Gestures stopped working both built-in ...
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Accessing OS X built in dictionary lookup in Firefox
I am really frustrated that Firefox does not provide the three-finger-tap lookup operation is in built in OS X. What is baffling me is that it supports other gestures such as two finger swipes and ...
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Can I disable Safari's pinch-to-zoom tab switcher? [duplicate]
When looking at a PDF document I often want to zoom-out to scroll quickly to its contents and get an overview.
However, when I zoom-out past a certain threshold (it seems to differ per PDF) Safari ...
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OS X 10.9 Mavericks subtle two-finger scrolling changes (on touchpad)
I am still unsure whether this is dependent on, or even related to, the "Responsive Scrolling" feature rolled out in Mavericks.
Responsive Scrolling is intended to provide smoothness of scroll by ...
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Any OS X Whiteboard apps/software designed for large screen multi-monitor use?
We're looking at upgrading our static whiteboards to interactive whiteboards/smartboards, and one option is simply to buy 1-3 large multi-touch displays and hook them up to a Mac Pro, and use some ...
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Alternative to multitouch in Mavericks
I am using OSX Mavericks on latest Mackbook Pro Retina.
After a week of intensive usage I have got some pain in my fingers because of the multi-fingers scrolling (two to scroll pages, three to switch ...
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Trackpad tap to click malfunction
I have been having issues with my trackpad lately and I believe that I have a broken trackpad sensor, but I thought I would ask here to see if it was something to do with the software instead of the ...
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How can I bind a multitouch gesture to open a file with a particular application?
I am running Mac OS X Lion. What I want is a way to open an HTML file with a particular application based on my action.
For example, the default application is Safari, so it will always open in ...
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Keynote - playing slide - three finger swipe won't switch applications
When I'm in the middle of a keynote presentation playing - the three finger swipe to switch applications no longer works. When I exit playing the presentation - it works again. I run Keynote '09 on OS ...
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Why does text appear blurry when zooming in Safari until you release your fingers from the trackpad?
This has been bothering me for a while. When you zoom in Safari (Mac) using the pinch gesture, the text is only anti-aliased after finishing the gesture, not in realtime. Why not?
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Has Mountain Lion broken the ability to show Desktop with a gesture, begin dragging an icon, and unshow the Desktop?
I have just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Despite my initial concerns relating to the new gestures, I am actually getting on pretty well and many of the new features are welcome.
I do ...
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pinch to zoom with magic mouse in Mountain Lion
I am unable to "pinch-to-zoom" on my magic mouse in mountain lion. I am using better touch tool (but have tried disabling that and pinch-to-zoom still doesn't work). In better touch tool under mouse ...
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Dragging selected text using the Three Finger gesture
Mountain Lion here. I can select text using the Three finger swipe. But to drag that text (for copying into another window, for example), I have to resort to the old fashioned (:)) press-click-on-...
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How to get the three finger 'scroll to top' back in mountain lion?
Remember in Snow Leopard there was a gesture using three fingers to scroll to the top of webpages? Has anyone worked out a way of getting that back?
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Trackbar Gesture for Mission Control / Spaces: Two fingers + click
Up until Snow Leopard I was using a simple shortcut to navigate through Spaces (Desktops). Two fingers plus click would present Spaces and allow me to select desktop and/or window effortlessly. So my ...
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How can I enable Trackpad tap-to-click for the login window in OS X 10.8?
In older OS X versions, this used to work just fine:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
It would enable tap to click for built-in MacBook ...
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