10.5.6 support four fingers swipe for MBA ver1?

[justit]

Dont see much value to 4 finger swipe.
Would have rather preferred if 4 finger up or down would have be top and bottom of page in Safari.

Try the new Firefox Beta for that, but 3 finger

 

[janph76]

It works great...thank you. Now I no longer envy four-fingers swipe in new MacBook!

 

[justit]

It works great...thank you. Now I no longer envy four-fingers swipe in new MacBook!

What kind of user are you if you don't always envy the newest? You've broken the Jobs distortion field!

 

[janph76]

What kind of user are you if you don't always envy the newest? You've broken the Jobs distortion field!

LOL true....but now I love my MBA Rev.A so much more with this option....

 

[mjeshurun]

Full Multitouch on White Macbook

Hi Guys,

Will this hack work on the White Macbook (early 2008).
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz , 4Gb RAM , 250 GB HDD.
10.5.6

Thank you and happy new year.

Miki.

 

[iPave]

Hi Guys,

Will this hack work on the White Macbook (early 2008).
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz , 4Gb RAM , 250 GB HDD.
10.5.6

Thank you and happy new year.

Miki.

Not gonna work

 

[ClarkeB]

I have a Rev. A MacBook Air and want to do this hack, but I went to System/Library and I cannot find the "Extensions" folder (nor can Spotlight). Is it a hidden folder?

 

[Schtumple]

Just a word of warning, for some reason my kext must've got corrupted after shutting down, keyboard and trackpad utterly stopped working, luckily I use my wireless keyboard and MM so I easily rectified it, but still, all I did was shut it down, turn it on the next day, boom, nothing...

 

[fyrefly]

I have a Rev. A MacBook Air and want to do this hack, but I went to System/Library and I cannot find the "Extensions" folder (nor can Spotlight). Is it a hidden folder?

Make sure it is the MacintoshHD/System/Library you're going into and not the USER/system/Library folder - there are two. And since those are protected system files, they won't show up in spotlight searches.

 

[SFStateStudent]

Make sure it is the MacintoshHD/System/Library you're going into and not the USER/system/Library folder - there are two. And since those are protected system files, they won't show up in spotlight searches.

+1 ^^^ Been there done that...

Thanks, all is fine

 

[dsevo]

I just used the instructions and it worked first try. I'm a complete Mac newbie too, lol.

 

[rohan.shah020]

Just did the hack. It worked perfectly. Here are screen shots of before and after. I did not touch Terminal.


Step 1 - Update to 10.5.6

Step 2 - Download and unzip the modified kext file attached to this post

Step 3 - Delete the AppleUSBMultitouch.kext file in System/Library/Extensions (this should require the administrators password)

Step 4 - Put the modified kext file you downloaded at Step 2 in System/Library/Extensions (this should also require the administrators password)

Step 5 - Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder and Repair Disk Permissions of your startup disk (tis may take a couple of minutes)

Step 6 - Restart your Mac

Be sure to save & back-up before the hack.

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After
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would this work for snow leopard or only leopard?

 

[MultiFinder17]

would this work for snow leopard or only leopard?

Only Leopard. Snow Leopard enables all of the gestures for the Rev. A anyway AFAIK, so it shouldn't be needed.

 

[Bakari45]

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned it, but BetterTouchTool allows you to do four finger swipes and tons of other gestures. It makes Apple's gestures seem amateurish.

 

[rohan.shah020]

Only Leopard. Snow Leopard enables all of the gestures for the Rev. A anyway AFAIK, so it shouldn't be needed.

Yeah, but I have an old 2008 2.4ghz macbook and i don't have 3 and 4 finger gestures... we established that the trackpad was capable of supporting them, so is there a way to unlock?

 

[alpgiray]

lion

i have mb 2.1 model 2008 two finger scroll, i use lion. can we get and new next for lion ? are the developers working on it ?