Can You Turn Off Pinch to Zoom

[ehmjay]

Seriously... at first I thought it was cool... but the number of times I've accidentally adjusted my bloody icon size when I didn't want to (and the amount of times it HASN'T zoomed when I WANTED too) is bloody frustrating!!!

and of course you cant turn it off in the preference pane...

is there a way (probably with command line) to stop this annoyance?

 

[phrequenc]

ever figure it out?

 

[ruinfx]

you mean just on your desktop? finder>preferences>zoom using trackpad. make sure its unchecked. i had to turn it off too because i kept accidentally zooming.

 

[phrequenc]

you mean just on your desktop? finder>preferences>zoom using trackpad. make sure its unchecked. i had to turn it off too because i kept accidentally zooming.

it's on a new MacBook 13"

 

[ViciousShadow21]

it's on a new MacBook 13"

it should be in the same place for a macbook as well

 

[scotty321]

If you're accidentally zooming in other programs, there's a few options for you:

Jeff Hawkins of CubeYellow software has also written an InputManager to turn off zooming in Safari, Firefox, and Mail:
http://cubeyellow.blogspot.com/2009/01/mac-book-pro-trackpad-zooming-and.html

You could also use the program MultiClutch to assign a different command to zooming as well:
http://wcrawford.org/2008/02/28/everytime-i-think-about-you-i-touch-my-cell/

And most importantly, be sure to voice your concerns with Apple on their feedback pages at http://www.apple.com/feedback, so hopefully they will give us an option to turn this horrible pinch to zoom option off.