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My trackpad won't work for multi touch gestures after sleep, in mountain lion

My trackpad won't work for multi touch gestures after sleep, in mountain lion.

iMac, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 9:33 PM

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Aug 10, 2012 5:19 AM in response to tfwilson

I had this problem (trackpad gestures) when coming out of sleep, and an additional one where Sophos anti virus status disappeared from the menu bar.


I deleted the Sophos anti virus and re-installed the latest version which solved both the status in the menu bar and also the issue with my trackpad (and mouse) not working on advanced features after sleep.


So a third party app caused the issue in my case - which has been mentioned elsewhere.

Aug 12, 2012 7:20 PM in response to nj2810

So many solutions. Let me add mine. I found that my MacBook Pro's gestures froze after the computer went to sleep. I had to restart to fix it. Later I found that I had a iPhoto slideshow in the lower left hotcorner and that using it was a quick fix. I don't know if it is specifically the iPhoto slideshow or just any slideshow any hotcorner selection. But this works for me. For my MB Pro it is the quickest solution pending Apple's debugging. I hope it works for others.

Nov 9, 2012 4:56 AM in response to cwiens

Note: Since i first posted this solution its never happened to me again.


I had this problem but I found it was the settings that changed when mountain lion was installed.

Mountain lion changed my three finger gestures to four finger gestures when swiping between full screen apps.


I found there were extra settings. Apparently when installing mountain lion my three finger gestures were changed to four finger gestures.


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