Lion Show Desktop Mission Control Gesture

I Totally agree with you. We want out four fingers up and down gestures especially four fingers up to show the desktop. Please apple add this option in the trackpad options.

These are user-to-user forums. No-one from Apple will hear you. The best thing is to leave feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Thank you, i've just sent my feedback. I hope that many people will do it.

Thank you, arthelinus!

Google sent me here when I asked how can I just show desktop on lion. You gave me the answer i was looking for. Thanks!

But honestly, I don't understand the source of your frustration. I absolutely love the new gesture, it actually makes sense (to me anyway). But I don't get the success rates posted here. I've done it about 10 times so far, and never missed. Or maybe I just have exactly the kind of fingers Apple was aiming at )))

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well, i'm too lazy to configure gestures )

how did you trigger launchpad? the gestures are completely different. you bring your fingers together to open launchpad and you do exactly the opposite to show desktop.

I agree that Apple should provide a way to choose the gestures but I don't understand the difficult people are talking about regarding the new ones.

To show the desktop you don't have to click or anything, just spread four fingers from the inside out. And to show the Launchpad get fingers together from outside in. That simple.

It works 100% of the time using an Magic Trackpad. Perhaps it can be a little bit trickier with a Magic Mouse.

Again it seems like it's not a that a lot of us don't get how to do the gesture, it's that for me when I do that gesture my thumb nail hits the pad before I get very far in the movement and it doesn't register. We understand that with "gestures" of course you don't click anything you do the simple movement on the trackpad or magic mouse. (I have a trackpad.) My hand doesn't work with the gesture well. If I go super slow and move very little I can get pretty consistent results with a little discomfort at contorting my hand to make it work. I would love to be able to choose something else that my hand can do easily.

I find the easiest way to show the desktop now is to add a second desktop to Mission Control and move all your open applications there. You can then four-finger swipe to Desktop 1 and see your bare desktop and files.

I discovered a more comfortable way to show the desktop. With very consistent results -- I should add. Put your index, middle and ring finger in the center of the top half of the trackpad. Put your thumb on its side to the side under your other fingers. Move your thumb straight towards the side of the trackpad while moving your other three fingers up. This seems to work for me and my thumb nail length does not affect the results. Just my two cents.

The real issue I'm running into is when I'm dragging an item from a window (say an image from a browser) in order to drop it onto the desktop - it's extremely difficult to do the reverse thumb-and-three-finger pinch while also holding down the trackpad button in order to drag the object. Is this a frustration anyone else has run into?

A workaround you could do which is what I did is to make a "Stuff" folder and put it in the dock. That way you can put everything from your desktop in that to keep your desktop uncluttered and not have the problem of the dragging while gesturing.

On that note you could put your Desktop folder as a stack on your dock.

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I hate that the gesture to show desktop is gone but I have got around it by using the Hot Corners function. I made my upper left corner show desktop so when my cursor is up there I see the desktop...not as nice but it works.

Like the rest of you, I preferred the Snow Leopart four finger swipe up/down for showing the desktop and exposé. The new thumb and three finger is iffy at best, sometimes it reveals the desktop, other times it shows me my open windows, and I've been using Lion for over a month now on my 2011 Macbook Pro.

My best suggestion is to use thumb and all four fingers for the gesture and it should work flawlessly. I've taken to using my little finger as well and I find that the 'hit rate' is almost 100% this way as opposed to thumb and three fingers. Hope this helps.

Oh, and Apple, give us the **** option to have the old gestures back.