Multi-touch refers to a touch-sensitive surface that can recognize two or more points of contact using a pressure sensitive-panel.
Questions tagged [multi-touch]
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How do I disable Chrome's two-finger back/forward navigation?
In dev builds of Chrome, they've implemented, refined, and released two-finger swipes left/right in order to browse back/forward in the browser history. Unfortunately, you can accidentally trigger it while you're in the middle of a long down/up…
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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 trackpad and bluetooth trackpad.
BetterTouchTool…
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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 this is actually possible?
Right now my…
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Is it possible to use a gesture to go back in Finder?
I miss the ability to go back to previous directory via a gesture (swipe with two finger right like in Safari or Chrome) in Finder. Is it possible to enable it?
Edit: I'm on a MacBook Pro, and using the trackpad.
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Chrome Mac gesture conflict with horizontal scrolling
I am running Chrome 14 on OSX Lion.
I swipe 2 fingers horizontally to scroll a web page horizontally, for a page that is too wide.
When I swipe right, it works fine. When it swipe left it works for a second then I think it's trying to click on the…
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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 Trackpads for the root user, which would also affect…
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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 taps. So why not the 3 finger tap dictionary ?
Is…
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Can I disable Safari's pinch-to-zoom tab switcher?
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 thinks I want to see the tab overview:
I have never…
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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 simple solution is go to preferences → Trackpad and…
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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 window.
After some time period of time (may be…
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Shortcuts & gestures you can't live without
What are some gestures or shortcuts you use on a daily basis that you can't live without?
I've found the BetterTouchTool preference pane add on to be great for creating custom gestures on a per app or universal basis
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Toggle between applications via four finger gesture?
Currently, if you enable it, the four finger gesture popups a window that shows you the apps you can switch to, You can then select one of them using the mouse.
Is there any way to modify this gesture a bit to make it faster to use?
I would be fine…
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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 related to PDF's in general, as both in the apps…
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Why does three-finger swipe gesture not support natural scrolling?
There are three page swipe gesture options in Lion:
Scroll left or right with two fingers, which is new to Lion, has a neat animation and is currently supported only by Safari.
Swipe left or right with three fingers existed in Snow Leopard and…
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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 look up" function. Now, I've read that it's possible…
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