Mac os touchpad gestures

Use Multi-Touch gestures on your Mac

With a Multi-Touch trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can tap, swipe, pinch, or spread one or more fingers to perform useful actions.

Trackpad gestures

For more information about these gestures, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Trackpad. You can turn a gesture off, change the type of gesture, and learn which gestures work with your Mac.

Trackpad gestures require a Magic Trackpad or built-in Multi-Touch trackpad. If your trackpad supports Force Touch, you can also Force click and get haptic feedback.

Tap to click
Tap with one finger to click.

Secondary click (right-click)
Click or tap with two fingers.

Smart zoom
Double-tap with two fingers to zoom in and back out of a webpage or PDF.

Scroll
Slide two fingers up or down to scroll. 1

Zoom in or out
Pinch with two fingers to zoom in or out.

Rotate
Move two fingers around each other to rotate a photo or other item.

Swipe between pages
Swipe left or right with two fingers to show the previous or next page.

Open Notification Center
Swipe left from the right edge with two fingers to show Notification Center.

Three finger drag
Use three fingers to drag items on your screen, then click or tap to drop. Turn on this feature in Accessibility preferences.

Look up and data detectors
Tap with three fingers to look up a word or take actions with dates, addresses, phone numbers, and other data.

Show desktop
Spread your thumb and three fingers apart to show your desktop.

Launchpad
Pinch your thumb and three fingers together to display Launchpad.

Mission Control
Swipe up with four fingers 2 to open Mission Control.

App Exposé
Swipe down with four fingers 2 to see all windows of the app you’re using.

Swipe between full-screen apps
Swipe left or right with four fingers 2 to move between desktops and full-screen apps.

Mouse gestures

For more information about these gestures, choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Mouse. There you can turn a gesture off, change the type of gesture, and learn which gestures work with your Mac. Mouse gestures require a Magic Mouse.

Secondary click (right-click)
Click the right side of the mouse.

Scroll
Slide one finger up or down to scroll. 1

Smart zoom
Double-tap with one finger to zoom in and back out of a webpage or PDF.

Mission Control
Double-tap with two fingers to open Mission Control.

Swipe between full-screen apps
Swipe left or right with two fingers to move between desktops and full-screen apps.

Swipe between pages
Swipe left or right with one finger to show the previous or next page.

1. You can turn off trackpad scrolling in Accessibility preferences.

2. In some versions of macOS, this gesture uses three fingers instead of four.

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How to Enable Mac-like Gestures on Ubuntu 20.04

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Note: These tools are built for the Xorg display server, which is the default for Ubuntu 20.04. If you’re not sure run ps -e | grep tty and check for xorg.

Add your user to the input group

Install libinput gestures

Start the software and allow it to run at startup.

Next install a UI tool to make adding and editing gestures easier.

Open the new program called ‘gestures’ from your activities menu.

These are the gestures you will need to emulate a mac-like experience.

Next you may n otice the workspaces are ontop of each other instead of side-by-side like MacOS. To fix this we will need to install a gnome extension named workspace matrix available here.

1. Install gnome tweak tools from Ubuntu Software Centre
2. Run `sudo apt-get install chrome-gnome-shell` (even if you don’t have or use chrome)
3. Install matrix extension

Now restart your system and you should be able to move workspaces, left and right using the three finger gesture or ctrl+alt + left or right arrows.

Two Finger Swipe in Browser

To get the two finger swipe back in a web browser I recommend using the following plugins.

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How to Cre­ate Cus­tom Mac Touch­pad Ges­tures With Bet­ter Touch Tools

Alvaro Bernedo

22 Nov 2013

There are certain utilities that make you wonder after you’ve first used them that how you could have lived without them for so long. In past entries we have discussed a few of them, like Clip Menu or DeskConnect for example.

This time we take a look at another one of these indispensable tools if you are a Mac user and you have either a Magic Mouse or a Macbook with a modern trackpad. The name of this little utility is Better Touch Tools and it is available for free.

Don’t be fooled by the free tag. In fact, Better Touch Tools is one of the most useful and convenient utilities you can find for your Mac.

Let’s take a look at what it is all about.

Interestingly enough, Better Touch Tools (BTT from now onwards) is an app that really lives up to its name: In a nutshell, the app allows you to create your own custom gestures to use on your Mac with devices that support them, like the Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad or any of the glass trackpads that you can find on modern Macs.

If you have any of these, the value of BTT becomes apparent immediately. Apple tends not to include additional features on their OS’ unless they work perfectly (Wi-Fi sync for example), but sometimes that leaves a lot to be desired. BTT solves that by providing your Mac’s pointing device with much more flexibility.

Note: BTT also works for keyboard shortcuts and with any standard USB mouse, although its actions are optimized for the devices mentioned above.

When using the app, you can choose whether to create a gesture to assign to the entire OS or just to a particular app, which is really convenient.

As expected, there are wide gamut of predefined actions you can assign to gestures, but the real meat of BTT resides in being able to assign your own shortcuts or commands to your custom ones.

For example, in my case I use Safari a lot and if I want to switch tabs, I have to use the keyboard or click directly on the tab I want. So I decided to create a gesture on my Magic Mouse that allowed me to switch tabs on Safari just by swiping on my Magic Mouse to one side or the other.

Creating your own gestures is fairly easy. First, choose the app for which you want a new gesture on the left panel of BTT and then select from the available gestures. In this case, I chose single finger swipes to the right and left of the mouse to trigger the action I wanted (switch tabs back and forth respectively).

Note: BTT will oftentimes ask you for permission to control your Mac using accessibility features. This is entirely normal.

Next, you could choose from among the predefined actions, but for this gesture I used the keyboard shortcuts for the actions.

Once done, you can start using your newly-created gestures right away.

Overall, I found that the gestures I created using Better Touch Tools worked almost perfectly with a few exceptions here and there when creating complex ones (especially on the trackpad) or when assigning actions to very simple/common gestures.

The flexibility that this utility provides easily makes up for its shortcomings.

In any case, being completely free, there is no reason for you not to give it a try.

Last updated on 8 Feb, 2018
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Did You Know

VLC media player supports basic mouse gestures.

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