Disabling pinch open & close

Hate it too.

I think it is called pinch zoom?

that is strange the check to select and deselect this option has been removed i just now noticed that hope you find somthing



try putting your thumb (if using late 2008 MBP) in the little space provided to open the screen lid ... seems to have solved all my "trackpadding" problems

Message was edited by: demolasko

Hello.

No hack required.
Go to Finder>Preferences and make sure you untick 'Zoom using trackpad'.

Best
John

Strange.
I was sure that feature was there in 10.5.5 (before I upgraded to 10.5.6.)
If the option to turn off zoom is indeed not available in 10.5.5, it might be worthwhile updating.

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John

evilhippo wrote:
...Pinch Open & Close is listed yet there is still no ability to disable it, which begs the question... why is it even listed then?

I think it, like the other none configurable trackpad features, are listed there more as a visual reference on how they work rather than for the ability to change their settings.

PLEASE please please give us the option to turn off the pinch and zoom. It is very, very annoying when surfing with safari to have the text on the page randomly enlarge or minimize. Who's idea was it to make these gestures unchangeable? It took me a couple days to figure out why text was changing size. Not a very good user experience in my opinion. (it did it again as I typed this reply!)

same problem here. i'm trying to work with neooffice and it drives me crazy!!! i've been working since 5 years with my other macbook pro and i have to say that apple is not giving us the opportunity to turn it off is very consumer-unfriendly. i hope apple recognizes the problem without a community start to collect signatures as for other applel (iphone) applications...

This happens to me too and it drives me nuts. There's bad news, and then there is good news.

The bad news: there is no built-in way to disable the pinch & zoom feature in Safari.

The good news: you can disable it using a program called MultiClutch, which allows you to assign multitouch actions on a per-application basis. The app is beta, so YMMV: http://osx.iusethis.com/app/multiclutch

The "fix" was posted by jguluarte over at the MacRumors forum: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=589218

I've quoted the relevant part below:

1) Download and Install "MultiClutch".

2) Once you have it installed, add Safari to the Application list (it is the plus image in the lower left corner).

3) Click Safari from that list to access Safari settings.

4) Add two new rules (the plus in the lower right corner).

5) Set one to "Zoom In" and one to "Zoom Out"

6) Set a key command sequence that does nothing (I set mine to apple option+crtl+shift] because I know that doesn't do anything)

7) ...

8) PROFIT!

I HATE pinch and close; I guess the way I use my trackpad and type, I'm always resizing my text in NeoOffice and in Safari. VERY frustrating.

I downloaded multiclutch, but I'm not clear on how you set the ZOOM IN and ZOOM OUT commands. I tried setting Zoom In as "Command+Del" and zoom out as "command+=" and it doesn't seem to work. I admit, I'm a relative newbie. Any suggestions? Thanks.

here is what I do (basically I just switched to firefox, which does let you edit the settings)... copy pasted from an older thread

Well Guys, I had the same problem and I can tell you what I did to fix it... I switched to the new Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 that supports finger gestures... Then you can (somewhat) edit the finger gestures by going to the website about:config (it lets you change the settings in firefox)... then filter by gesture and you can erase the values for the gestures you don't want to use... in addition to erasing the pinch ones (I set pinch out to reset text size.. same as Command+0), I also switched the swipe gestures values with the twist gestures as I switch tabs much more frequently then going back and forth and find the twist gesture's sensitivity to be off... Good luck guys!
Link to beta: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html
Suggested Addons to get: Adblock Plus, Download Statusbar and Firefox PDF Plugin for Mac OS X

It appears that Safari 4.0 Beta doesn't address this either. I imagine that MultiClutch is not compatible with 4.0, either. (Anyone know otherwise?)

FYI: Zoom and Pinch (Open or Close) are different functions. Zoom is holding the <CTL> and using the 2-finger scroll (on a trackpad) or the scroll wheel on a mouse. ZOOM magnifies the screen display (to the extent that you get pixelization), whereas PINCH increases (or decreases) the font size of the webpage (and now with 4.0, and even more annoying, the graphics of a web page).

++ Peter