Expose: Four Finger swipe up/down!

[powerbuddy]

After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I am experiencing something rather very strange. I have a late 2008 MBP, which has the four finger swipe up/down(to show desktop) built into its touchpad. Now, when I swipe up, the app windows hide and it shows the desktop, and then when I immediately swipe down(without releasing my hand), the Windows come back. No problem till now, but the trouble arises once I release my hand after the swipe down motion, and the windows go back to hiding(and remains stuck there), until I have to do the swipe up motion again to bring the windows back on the desktop!

Been used to the Leopard interface for so long, I guess its a habit for me to swipe up, and immediately swipe down and it automatically quits the show desktop mode. Now, I have to swipe up, release my fingers and then do a swipe down for this to work. TBH, its kind of frustrating.

Is this a feature I just have to deal with it or a bug?

 

[Anton-Anton]

I have never realized. But its same on mine. Until a fix yo will have to swipe up - lift fingers - swipe down.

 

[powerbuddy]

I have never realized. But its same on mine. Until a fix yo will have to swipe up - lift fingers - swipe down.

Apparently, the same thing goes on for the swipe down-swipe up routine for expose too. You forget to lift the finger, and it goes back into expose!

 

[macinhand]

I noticed this on my MacBook Pro previous to the SL update, as i am new to Mac and only had my MBP for four weeks i thought this was the norm

 

[Cannedkoala]

Same happens for me now that I try it, but it hasn't hindered me before.

Can I ask what you're doing where you just want to see the desktop for a second and then come back?

I use it when I want to grab from or drop things to the desktop, which always involves me taking my hand off to do other things.


I was just fiddling with it again, it seems if you swipe up, leave your hand on the pad for a little over a second and then release they will automatically bring everything back. So it's like what you're doing except you don't have to do the swipe down, just let go.

 

[kolax]

Yep, welcome to the trackpad bugs of Snow Leopard..