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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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Macbook Pro Trackpad 2-finger right click working intermittently
My Macbook Pro 14" Trackpad is set up to right click with a 2-finger click. It has worked perfectly well until recently, and recently I am in a country with very dry weather. It works sometimes, ...
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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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Is there a way to reveal desktop by gesture, begin dragging a file, un-reveal desktop by gesture, and drop the file into an app on Monterey?
Since I can remember, I have been able to use the Show Desktop gesture, click and hold on a file, then reverse the Show Desktop gesture, and move the file over to a desired window, and release the ...
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Suspend two fingers back
Is it possible to disable this feature temporary?
I like to use it but it is so annoying when you are using spreadsheet or something with scrollable page.
The idea is next: when I press some button (...
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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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MacBook Air M1: Noticeable desktop swiping lag
Mac: MacBook Air (M1,2020)
OS: macOS Big Sur (11.4)
Age: ~6-7 months
I'm facing a problem where there seems to be a slight lag when I 4-finger swipe between windows/desktops. It's like a second long &...
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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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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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Correct way with Macbook Pro trackpad to select from dropdown form?
Having started to use a MacBook Pro with Catalina a lot more than a Mac Mini, I've had trouble trying to negotiate the trackpad after using a mouse for so long.
I want to be able to use a dropdown / ...
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Logitech T651 connecting to MBP as an Apple Mouse instead of as a trackpad
I'm trying to connect a Logitech T651 trackpad to a MBP with a built in functioning trackpad (maybe there's some sort of conflict between the two trackpads and this is causing the issue?) I go to the ...
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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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Mission control always popups incidentally/automatically when typing
Recently on my MacBook Pro 2019, mission control always popups incidentally when I'm typing.
At the beginning I thought there's an issue of my trackpad since my wrists almost touch it when I'm ...
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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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How to remove touch gesture from QuickTime recordings on Mac
At one point I was interested in recording touch gestures using an iPhone Simulator + QuickTtime, so I dutifully followed the advice in this answer and ran the following command:
defaults write com....
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Windows 10 on external SSD - touchbar and track pad issues
2018 MBP 15". 512/16/Vega 20.
(I should have ordered a larger internal SSD, but it wasn't really up to me.)
I have the internal SSD split into two 256GB partitions for MacOS and Windows 10. These ...
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Tap with two fingers for a "right-click" or secondary click
On a Mac, I used to be able to secondary-click using a two-finger tap. Currently, I can only secondary-click using a two-finger click, not a tap.
Is there a way to alt-click using a two-finger tap ...
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Close mission control by repeating gesture
Currently I have mission control to activate on three fingers up as so
However once mission control is activated I would expect to be able to close mission control by repeating this three fingers up ...
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Trackpad multi touch pinch gesture not working
I just bought a 21.5 inch iMac (latest macOS), I was using a macbook and got used to the trackpad and multitouch gestures, so I bought one (Magic trackpad 2) for desktop stuff as well. Its my third ...
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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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How to fix stuck/'disabled' zooming on trackpad?
I recently bought myself a new Trackpad, since my old Magic Trackpad broke. Ever since, however, zooming (two finger pinch) gets stuck/disabled/not working somehow and, besides rebooting, the only ...
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Do iPhones have a built-in mouse or trackpad and how do I use it?
Quite some time ago someone told me (or maybe I read it) that iPhones have a built-in trackpad or mouse pointer that makes it easy for you to move the cursor around for editing text. I want to know if ...
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Zoom in or out with trackpad stops working
I am using OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 (15G1217) on a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015).
Sometimes when reading PDF's I notice I suddenly can not use the trackpad zoom feature anymore. It is not ...
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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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Secondary Click: Click but not tap with two fingers
On my Macbook Pro, I prefer the secondary click to be "Click with two fingers", but the closest option that exists in the Trackpad Preferences is "Click or tap with two fingers".
Is there any way for ...
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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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Restoring trackpad to original
I messed up with my trackpad settings. I am also using bettertouchtool.
The problem is three finger drag has completely stopped working. None of trackpad settings in system preferences or options ...
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Trackpad gesture to select text
Ok, it should be very easy one to figure out but I can't do it, so I'm asking experts. I want to know which one is accurate trackpad gesture for selecting text. Is it "three finger swipe right" or "...
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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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What is the difference between a tap and a click?
I can click on both my Magic Trackpad and my Magic Mouse but I can tap on neither, if my understanding is correct.
On my Magic Mouse all I can do is click. Same with Magic Trackpad.
What am I ...
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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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MacBook Pro trackpad click
I am new to the MacBook Pro laptop. Why does the trackpad have to be pressed down to register a click, rather than just touching on the pad? Is there a way to change this? Please advise because it is ...
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How to enable trackpad gestures in windows(bootcamp)
I have used Parallels. Windows installed in Parallel VM supports most of the trackpad gestures( including three finger ). How to enable them in Bootcamp version of Mac. Any external software to enable ...
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Macbook Trackpad Tap To Drag Issues
I'm having a weird problem that just started with my 2012 15" Retina Macbook Pro with Yosemite. The ability to tap and drag using the internal trackpad has stopped working. All the other gestures work ...
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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 (Right click + Move mouse to the Left) in MACBOOK PRO
I am using Genymotion and playing game: Clash of Clan. To Zoom in I need to : Right click + Move mouse to the Left. How can i do this Macbook pro retina display 15 inch. I know that tapping with two ...
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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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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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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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Can I simulate multi-touch input on a Mac?
With iOS's accessibility features, it is possible to pretend the user is using multiple fingers or making certain gestures while in reality they are only using one finger.
Is there any way I can ...
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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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Importing WordPress Codex as a dictionary into the Dictionary app
I'm an avid WordPress developer, and I'm constantly referring to the Wordpress Codex to look up various functions. I recently got a new 2013 MBP, and I just found the glorious "three finger tap to ...
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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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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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