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magic mouse bad lion issue
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Swipe for backwards and forward seems to be missing system-wide. I just installed 10.7 on my Macbook Air and the feature is absent not only in third-party apps like Chome, but also shipping apps like Finder.
It seems very odd to me to eliminate such a useful gesture, I don't give a damn if a 4 finger swipe can trigger mission control when 2 finger swipe no longer triggers back and forward.
What's even more frustrating is that better touch tool doesn't have any gestures for two finger swiping that I could configure.
It seems very odd to me to eliminate such a useful gesture, I don't give a damn if a 4 finger swipe can trigger mission control when 2 finger swipe no longer triggers back and forward.
What's even more frustrating is that better touch tool doesn't have any gestures for two finger swiping that I could configure.
nope wrong again... it said magic mouse bad lion issue. Meaning the issue is with the mouse. It's a no brainer that it's not a software error. I then clearly asked if anyone new of a setting to fix it. You seem to read into things way to easily. Did you even read the post? Or just the header.
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I've been playing around a bit with Lion and just setup my magic mouse. What I've found, is that a single finger swipe left and right, will go forward and backward pages now. That is in Safari at least. I haven't installed any other browsers yet.
In Safari, a SINGLE finger swipe left to right or vice versus brings you forwards/backwards in Safari.
TWO finger swipes take you left or right on your desktop (you can be in any application and two finger swipes will still only apply to Finder). Swiping with two fingers to the right will invoke Dashboard (in iOS 4.X it would be the Spotlight page), or swiping left will bring you to any Spaces you have active.
*In "System Preferences", in "Exposé", make certain "Show Dashboard as a space" is checked
Very odd that everyones having success doing this and it's still a dead function for me. I thought since everyone was using mozilla and I was on chrome that it might be that. Nope its something else. I'm sure its a setting I need to stumble on.
Are you using 3.6 or the 4 betas? I know what you mean about swiping spaces instead of swiping browser back/forth. Just setup for Magic Mouse with BTT and that'll fix it. Here's how i did it:
Single finger swipe left - back in Safari
Single finger swipe right - forward in Safari
Double finger swipe left - left a Space
Double finger swipe right - right a Space
Fixed it for me.
No. It's not a mozilla chrome issue.
If you want magic mouse 2 fingers scrolling for other browsers/apps back, do follows
you need to give up something)1.Open Magic Mouse setting in System Preferences
2.In More Gestures tap, click the drop down list under Swipe between pages and choose Swipe left or right with two fingers
3.Uncheck the Swipe between full-screen apps
Now you get your old 2 fingers gesture for magic mouse back, and you give up smooth moving backward/forward in Safari -- you can still move backward/forward in Safari, just not smoothly.
I wrote detail in blog: http://tkjune.com/2011/07/05/using-magic-mouse-2-fingers-swipe-in-chrome-firefox-in-lion/
No. It's not a mozilla chrome issue.
If you want magic mouse 2 fingers scrolling for other browsers/apps back, do follows
1.Open Magic Mouse setting in System Preferences
2.In More Gestures tap, click the drop down list under Swipe between pages and choose Swipe left or right with two fingers
3.Uncheck the Swipe between full-screen apps
Now you get your old 2 fingers gesture for magic mouse back, and you give up smooth moving backward/forward in Safari -- you can still move backward/forward in Safari, just not smoothly.
I wrote detail in blog: http://tkjune.com/2011/07/05/using-magic-mouse-2-fingers-swipe-in-chrome-firefox-in-lion/
I am sorry but this is not working for me!
I mean, ok you get back your 2-figer swiping for Back and Forward and that's great!
But then you don't get any gesture for Space switching. I knew you didn't have it beforehand since this is a new feature, but missing a new feature right after the installation of the OS is a bit harsh
The solution to your problem
*i think.
(I have swedish OS so I apologize if the translations below are a little wrong, but I think you will find your way anyway).
Go to "More gestures"
For "Swipe between pages" choose the third option "Swipe with two or three finger".
With that option you will have both the new and the old behavior.
/Andreas
I notice now that when you swipe back on a web page it goes to the widget page. So does that mean everytime you want to scroll back a page you have to hit the arrow now?
(I have swedish OS so I apologize if the translations below are a little wrong, but I think you will find your way anyway).
Go to "More gestures"
For "Swipe between pages" choose the third option "Swipe with two or three finger".
With that option you will have both the new and the old behavior.
/Andreas
This backward/forward thing does not work on Chrome!
So I have to use the 2-finger swipe.
But this way I lose the 2-finger swipe to switch spaces!
As others have said, you're using the two finger swipe and on the mouse that moves your space, not your page. Firefox and Chrome do not yet support the ONE FINGER swipe of the magic mouse or the TWO FINGER swipe of the track pad..
But like others have said, this is a bad mesogreat issue.
But like others have said, this is a bad mesogreat issue.
I am sorry but this is not working for me!
I mean, ok you get back your 2-figer swiping for Back and Forward and that's great!
But then you don't get any gesture for Space switching. I knew you didn't have it beforehand since this is a new feature, but missing a new feature right after the installation of the OS is a bit harsh
For the space switching, I'm using 3 fingers on magic mouse or 4 fingers on trackpad. I don't want to miss it either. In another hand, my magic mouse ran out of power often and a little bit low for me. In the end I take back my Logitech MX518, which has 8 buttons. When I go out, I would take magic mouse with me.