BetterTouchTool is free, and is likely to remain that way, according to the author. Separate gestures are available for the trackpad and the Magic Mouse, and the new "Live View" feature makes it very easy to gain precise control over sensitivity settings and to test out gestures. Anyone updated their MagicPrefs today and got weird behavior from your trackpad (Macbook Pro) Im experiencing weird trackpad activity ever since I updated MagicPrefs this morning, I had to. I havent tried it but it looks interesting. It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks, taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures to functions like Middle Click, Hold Down Both Mouse. When you reconnect the magic trackpad, it should have tap to click enabled. defaults write .trackpad Clicking -bool true. First disconnect the magic trackpad and ensure tap to click is disabled in system preferences.
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The latest version includes presets (which you can switch between), import, and export. Someone mentioned above jitouch which handles the mm trackpad and the magic pad. MagicPrefs is a free application for OS X which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and the MacBook glass trackpad. Yes it is possible to have tap to click on the external magic trackpad only. Groups of gestures can be assigned to specific applications, or made global. BetterTouchTool also has actions available that control window sizing and movement, ala SizeUp, but with gestures. meaning you can make just about anything happen. This was about a week ago, but MagicPrefs still shows up in the System Preferences menu. It is not in the applications folder and Spotlight cant find it. I used AppCleaner to uninstall the app and its attendant files. It's now quite easy to start adding gestures such as 'Three Finger Swipe Down' and 'Four Finger Click,' and assign them to predefined actions like 'Show Desktop' or 'Open Finder.' You can also assign any shortcut key you like, or assign a gesture to launch any application. I downloaded the MagicPrefs trackpad augmentation app, tried it, decided Id rather not use it and got rid of it. It's the work of Andreas Hegenberg (also the author of SecondBar), and it's come a long way since the first alpha version I tested a while back.Īside from improved stability, the interface is one of the elements that's come the farthest. Either enter a keyboard combination in the Custom Keyboard Combination dialogue. If you want to use a modifier key with a gesture you can select one, or more, by clicking the checkbox next to it.
BetterTouchTool is a fork of the MultiClutch project, built for Snow Leopard and expanding the feature set greatly. Click on Add New Gesture in the footer and select the the gesture you want to use from the Touchpad Gesture dropdown menu. Well, there's another free utility called BetterTouchTool that works with both trackpads and Magic Mice, providing a huge number of gestures and infinite possibilities for configuration. We recently covered a utility called MagicPrefs that adds a hatful of new and configurable multi-touch gestures to your Magic Mouse.
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