four finger swipe to show list of open applications

Try 3 fingers up/down. Also look at your trackpad settings in system preferences to see your gestures.

Sasan Mac wrote:

Hi guys,

I have installed Mountain Lion and now I don't see any response when I swipe four fingers left or right (in Snow Leopard I used to do it and see the list of open apps and choose my app).

Does anyone know how can I get that back??? I am really used to it. Without this Mountain Lion seems not so nice!

I don't know why Apple instead of adding functionalities either changes the old one or modifies them!!!!!! Not user friendly!

Please let me know if I can do something to get it back.

Thanks!

No you can not get it back. It was lost with Lion.

See your >SystemPreference>Track Pad for your 3 or 4 finger swipe options.

Alternate work a round:

Command-Tab will give you the heads-up screen of all open apps.

Keep the command key held down, and hit Tab (or Tilde) to cycle through.

Also you can mouse to the app you want to choose from the heads-up screen.

I would go back to TrackPad preference and make sure you have not set up any conflicts.

Open a guest account and see if Left-Right swipe moves between full screen apps. Pretty fundemental to both Lion and Mountain Lion OS.

This might tell you if there is a Third Party Conflict???

On mine, it's 4 fingers up or down.

4 fingers left or right changes full screen applications.

In all cases, the Trackpad System Preferences indicate the proper functions of the gestures.

The 3 finger gestures change to 4 finger ones if you enable moving with 3 fingers. They stay as 4 fingers swipes even after disabling 3 finger moving. But that can be put back in your trackpad gestures to 3 again.

The four finger swipe up/down to switch applications with the track pad works intermittemly with Mountain Lion. What's up with that.

When I start my mac and open applications to full screen, the four finger swipe works great to switch applications. But over a period of time it stops working. The only way to fix it is to re-start the computer and the applications. Than the process starts all over, four finger swipe works, than it stops.

Apple didn't take this function away, but it does have a bug in Mountain Lion. I hope a fix comes soon, because as with Sasan Mac, I find this feature adds a lot to productivity.

This may also be a bug with ML, but I find my track pad now losing its connection more often than before ML.

I just wish it would work consistently.

I've also found that when my iMac wakes up after a sleep, I've lost the email connection. So I have to close and re-open mail to get it to work after a sleep mode.

I'm not happy with these Mountain Lion bugs.

I don't know if you already figured this out or not, but I may have found a solution. The key seems to be to change the "view" of your program by selecting full-screen mode. Once you do this you can use the four finger swipe to acces any program that is in full-screen mode.

I completely agree - I sorely miss that function!

Hi Sasan,

Am I confused? As Imp68 indicated above, three fingers swiped up will display all of the open windows in miniature, allowing you to click on whichever one you want to look at. It's not each full screen displaying one at a time, but seems to work as well?

Maybe I'm just not understanding the issue?

GB