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iseethruyou

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Original poster
Mar 30, 2010
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So I just downloaded lion and installed it. To be honest it is not much different from SL, but there are some changes they made to multi touch that are very annoying:

1. On SL I had it set up so a 4 finger down sweep would display all my open windows/programs. Mission control seems like lions version of this but the only way I can set is to swipe up with three fingers. Has anyone found a way to change it so I can use mission control with a four finger swipe up?

2. On SL, while browsing I could use a three finger swipe back to go back a webpage and a 3 finger swipe to go forward. Can't find this option in Lion - has anyone seen it?

If I cant find any solution to this i am going back to SL because the pros of lion dont out weigh the above cons.
 

John Mang

macrumors member
Jul 20, 2011
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System prefs, trackpad -> More gestures. Change it to Four finger up for mission control
 

pr002i

macrumors newbie
Jul 20, 2011
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Solved #2.

How!?! I'm desperately trying to restore my 3 finger 'back' and 'forward' gestures.

Thanks for any tips...

[EDIT]
Figured it out...at least somewhat. It is now working, that much is for sure.

I opened up chrome (my usual browser) and swiping forward/back wasn't working. So I opened up system preferences *and* safari. In the trackpad settings, under "more gestures", I changed the "swipe between pages" from 3 fingers to 4, then used some swiping forward/back in safari. Then I changed it back to 3 fingers, swiped forward/back in safari, and now it works to swipe foward/back in chrome.

Hope that helps.
 
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Mikegs

macrumors regular
Aug 6, 2010
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Too bad "show desktop" can't be customized. I find that gesture akward and would like to make it three or four finders down, but can't do it
 

Reach9

macrumors 68020
Aug 17, 2010
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Download BetterTouchTool and edit it with your own preference. But remember to disable the settings under TrackPad in System Prefs first!
 

Watabou

macrumors 68040
Feb 10, 2008
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Could you elaborate on how you solved this? I use firefox as my default brower.

I have my prefs set like these and three finger back/forward works for me in Firefox.
 

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