How to disable the annoying two fingers zoom?

Well....that is how its supposed to work in theory --

I think most people will find that it is not possible to change these settings as of the last OS update -- even if you have the "Zoom while holding" box deselected, it will still zoom if you touch it with two fingers -- and indeed, when you go back to check settings, you'll find that the box has been reselected. It doesn't really matter which of the three control keys you have selected to zoom -- it zooms with all of them, or none of them.

This question has been appearing a LOT in all the forums lately -- it just appears that it isn't something you can turn off right now. See also the forum: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8704537

Speamac,

Go to your System Preferences (Apple Menu>System Preferences)...and click on Trackpad. The options for One Finger, Two Fingers, Three Fingers, and Four fingers are all right there.

In order to disable it, on the two fingers option, select the "Screen Zoom" Options, and then make sure the box for "Zoom while holding" box is NOT checked.

This option is actually quite useful if you set it right. I have mine set to say "Zoom while holding" the Control key. So if you press that button, and use two fingers, it does the zoom in/out. If i don't press anything on the keyboard and use the two finger gesture, it just scrolls up and down.

Hope this helps.

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RonRonArbor is correct, that technique does NOT disable to two finger zoom in 10.5.8.

They made me learn to use two fingers on my old MBP with the push button because Apple doesn't have a right mouse. Now I'm used to leaving my left thumb on the "button" and gliding with my right index finger.

DANG I get a zoom all the time when I don't want one.

I assume you are talking about the pinch open and close movement.

You can disable it using a program called MultiClutch

http://osx.iusethis.com/app/multiclutch

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

Firefox has built in gesture support for trackpads and can be disable without third party software. Open a browser window and surf to about:config. Then scroll down to browser.gesture.pinch.in and browser.gesture.pinch.out. These will need to be disabled by removing the value.

Hi, Mike. What you learned once, you can unlearn. It's not convenient, but that's what you'll need to do.

eww wrote:
What you learned once, you can unlearn.

Where have I heard that before? 😉

Yes, I learned that during my own Jedi apprenticeship. 😉

That's good info to have. Thanks. I assume that re-entering the removed values will reverse the cancellations.

Yes it will. Or you can change the values to a differnt command you would rather have it do.