3-finger Swipe in Lion Dev Preview 4

[Tyranicus]

In Leopard and Snow Leopard, swiping left and right with three fingers would take you back and forward in Safari and Finder. Lion removed this feature. You can use two fingers to go back and forward in Safari, but there is no Finder functionality. I fixed this in previous developer previews using BetterTouchTool to map 3 finger swipe left and right to CMD-[ and CMD-]. This does not appear to work in Dev Preview 4. All my other BetterTouchTool settings work, but not this one. Does anyone know a workaround for this? I've been using 3-finger swipe to go back and forward in Finder for over 2 years now. I am very accustomed to it, and would really like to continue using it.

 

[Kmax82]

Go to Trackpad settings and then to "More Gestures". The first item is "Swipe between pages". Change that to "3 fingers".

 

[Kmax82]

Actually, best of both worlds.. Select the last option, "Swipe with two or three fingers", so you can keep the two finger history in Safari.

 

[Tyranicus]

Right, but that doesn't work in Finder.

 

[Kmax82]

Really? Working fine here on my Hack with a Magic Trackpad and my 2008 Macbook Pro.

 

[Tyranicus]

Oddly enough, when I do what you suggest, my BetterTouchTool modification starts working. I know it's BTT because the Go menu in Finder briefly lights up when I swipe with 3 fingers. I don't know why this happened, but I got it working, so that's all that matters. 😛

 

[Kmax82]

Oddly enough, when I do what you suggest, my BetterTouchTool modification starts working. I know it's BTT because the Go menu in Finder briefly lights up when I swipe with 3 fingers. I don't know why this happened, but I got it working, so that's all that matters. 😛

Good deal. I noticed it took a little time to kick in when I made the change, so maybe that attributed to some of that.. not sure. Glad it's working.