Thanks! I have been awaiting four finger gestures. Works great on an early 2008 Penyrn MacBook Pro.
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10.5.6 [Tutorial] How to enable four finger gestures on early 2008 MBP/MBA natively
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I toyed around for a while. It seems that I NEED to delete the original .kext (I simply renamed it). Everytime I made a change, a restart would give me my gestures, but a second restart had them disappear again. It's obvious that Mac OS X has a lot of caches, because even deleting a lot of the cache files didn't do anything (one time it even removed trackpad/keyboard usage, because it was looking for a copy of my kext file). I have deleted the original now (I have a time machine backup), and after several restarts, it seems fine.
Here's hoping.
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After I got this working, I tried the 4 finger side swipe (task switcher) and the 4 finger Up/Down for Expose. I just stumbled into this:
If I use 4 fingers and swipe down, I get expose, swipe up, it returns to the standard desktop.
If I use 4 fingers and swipe UP, it clears the desktop, swipe down, it returns the windows to the desktop. I've had this has a hot corner from day one, but it was a cool little Easter Egg to find this in the 4 finger swipe.
Sorry if ya'll knew that already, but it was new to me
After I got this working, I tried the 4 finger side swipe (task switcher) and the 4 finger Up/Down for Expose. I just stumbled into this:
If I use 4 fingers and swipe down, I get expose, swipe up, it returns to the standard desktop.
If I use 4 fingers and swipe UP, it clears the desktop, swipe down, it returns the windows to the desktop. I've had this has a hot corner from day one, but it was a cool little Easter Egg to find this in the 4 finger swipe.
Sorry if ya'll knew that already, but it was new to me
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After I got this working, I tried the 4 finger side swipe (task switcher) and the 4 finger Up/Down for Expose. I just stumbled into this:
If I use 4 fingers and swipe down, I get expose, swipe up, it returns to the standard desktop.
If I use 4 fingers and swipe UP, it clears the desktop, swipe down, it returns the windows to the desktop. I've had this has a hot corner from day one, but it was a cool little Easter Egg to find this in the 4 finger swipe.
Sorry if ya'll knew that already, but it was new to me
Technically speaking, Exposé refers to all the actions from showing all windows, application windows or the desktop. So even swiping UP to show the desktop is still an Exposé action. There's nothing hidden or Easter Eggish about showing Desktop.
Doubtful, since he works for
now.MultiClutch is open source and available under a BSD license so it's possible that someone could further this tool...
Three/Four Finger Gestures on Mid 2007 MacBook Pro
Hi everyone,
I googled this and also searched the forums but it looks like there is no appropriate post concerning the Mid 2007 MBP and Multitouch yet...
I currently use the Mid 2007 MacBook Pro 2.2GHz (T7500) & 2.4GHz (T7700) Intel Core 2 Duo Merom (also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Book_Pro#Models). I think my Laptop is very similar to the Early 2008 though.
Is there any possibility already to hack the pref pane and get the three finger swipe as well as the four finger gestures? I've attached a screenshot of what I got with the 10.5.6 update. Cheers everyone
Hi everyone,
I googled this and also searched the forums but it looks like there is no appropriate post concerning the Mid 2007 MBP and Multitouch yet...
I currently use the Mid 2007 MacBook Pro 2.2GHz (T7500) & 2.4GHz (T7700) Intel Core 2 Duo Merom (also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Book_Pro#Models). I think my Laptop is very similar to the Early 2008 though.
Is there any possibility already to hack the pref pane and get the three finger swipe as well as the four finger gestures? I've attached a screenshot of what I got with the 10.5.6 update. Cheers everyone
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Hi everyone,
I googled this and also searched the forums but it looks like there is no appropriate post concerning the Mid 2007 MBP and Multitouch yet...
I currently use the Mid 2007 MacBook Pro 2.2GHz (T7500) & 2.4GHz (T7700) Intel Core 2 Duo Merom (also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Book_Pro#Models). I think my Laptop is very similar to the Early 2008 though.
Is there any possibility already to hack the pref pane and get the three finger swipe as well as the four finger gestures? I've attached a screenshot of what I got with the 10.5.6 update. Cheers everyone
No, sorry, there is no way. And with all due respect, if you would have just taken the time to read even one page in this thread, you would have known that fact.
I cannot get this to work on my MacBook Air. I have tried the terminal commands, i have tried deleting it then putting the new one in. i tried to repair the start up disk right after. NOTHING!.
I have no idea how. Everyone says its so easy. But it just does not want to work for me.
I have no idea how. Everyone says its so easy. But it just does not want to work for me.
There is a bit of a learning curve but then the new gestures become quite addictive IMO. By reflex I am even looking where to swipe when switching over to a desktop machine now.i didnt really know about this feature but since i can do it, why not have it
I say we try and get this turned into a sticky. I'd hate to have to search through the whole forums for this if I ever need to reinstall OSX. (I have it bookmarked just in case.)
BTW- am I the only one who didn't think four fingers would be as useful as it really is? I only have one complaint. I'd rather have four finger sideways change spaces instead of the cmd-tab.
BTW- am I the only one who didn't think four fingers would be as useful as it really is? I only have one complaint. I'd rather have four finger sideways change spaces instead of the cmd-tab.
why always me?
Oh noooooooo!
Yesterday the rabbit of my host family bit the electricity cable of my MBA and today after following your thread after restarting my MBA I couldn't log in any more because the trackpad isn't working any more... Any ideas?
I got my MBA in February so it should be an "early 2008" one, right?
I made a backup of the original file. Is there a possibility of remotely (wireless or via USB) accessing the system just to restore the configuration?
Thanks for your help, I am tripping through Japan right now, blogging so I can't afford being without my baby :-(
Thank you very much for any tips to get back into my system.
MBAlover
Oh noooooooo!
Yesterday the rabbit of my host family bit the electricity cable of my MBA and today after following your thread after restarting my MBA I couldn't log in any more because the trackpad isn't working any more... Any ideas?
I got my MBA in February so it should be an "early 2008" one, right?
I made a backup of the original file. Is there a possibility of remotely (wireless or via USB) accessing the system just to restore the configuration?
Thanks for your help, I am tripping through Japan right now, blogging so I can't afford being without my baby :-(
Thank you very much for any tips to get back into my system.
MBAlover
Honestly...
I don't know why some people want to have those gesture on. I have a very last MBP 2.5 (non-unibody) and there's this three finger swipe which annoys the hell outta me
Trouble is, there's no actual way of switching it off or disabling it. Instead I just disable the the built in trackpad and use a mouse. And you folks wanna enable the feature?
I don't know why some people want to have those gesture on. I have a very last MBP 2.5 (non-unibody) and there's this three finger swipe which annoys the hell outta me
Trouble is, there's no actual way of switching it off or disabling it. Instead I just disable the the built in trackpad and use a mouse. And you folks wanna enable the feature?