Missing Trakpad Gestures

There are many gesture options in System Preferences, and many more in third party software such as BetterTouchTool.

None of which address the OP's issues. I agree with him too. They really need to put this back in. For an OS that was inspired by iOS's gesture based navigation, this seems a bit silly. Why would you remove a gesture command that was ubiquitous in the OS and that everyone was used to? I've found SOOO many threads about this issue.

I REALLY hope they put the back/forward gestures back in.

You haven't looked at BetterTouchTool, have you?

I have no affilition with the developer beyond having used his software for a long time now.

I had the same issue with not being able to swipe between Finder windows. I have finally found the solution without using the BetterTouchTool.

System Preferences

Trackpad

More Gestures

Check "Swipe between pages"

Select "Swipe with two or three fingers"

This will allow you to swipe with three fingers through Finder windows. Just be aware that other gestures might be effected by this, so you'll need to adjust accordingly.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,

Russell

well, although that solves the missing gesture problem, they still didn't do it right. Swiping left in Finder goes back, but swiping left in Safari goes forward. That does not make it "natural..."

System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom > uncheck 'natural scrolling'

that might work

yeah, I already tried that. What I'm saying is you can make everything work, but it's just implemented wrong. The animation of the windows sliding back or forward in Safari is confusing when using two fingers. It's just done wrong. They need to make all navigational swiping directions do the same thing, otherwise it gets very confusing.

I can go with four fingers swipe..But in aperture also with two.

If I select the folowing in order to move forwards and backwards in finder:

System Preferences

Trackpad

More Gestures

"Swipe with two fingers or three"

Then it will also change the way I go forwards and backwards in Safari which was one of the os X Lion new feature.

You can still go forwards and backwards the new way in Safari by using two fingers to swipe (instead of 3). It takes a little getting used to, but at lease you can move forward and backward in Finder and still use the new way of going back and forward in Safari.

Better fix this Apple, we are all not using default gesture suggestions because they don't work...

Where is the "more gestures" option? I cannot seem to find it.

honestly... this is bugged.

i put the gestures to three fingers, and it changes back to two.

i checked that there is no other gestures using three fingers sideways and it still changes back to two fingers.

and when it stayed sometimes... i cant really use it on the finder.... till after 3-4 attempts....

this is buggy...

and the pad feels less responsive and sensitive to gestures..

please fix it..