“If your Mac has a multitouch trackpad, there’s a simple but amazing tweak you can make that could revolutionize the way you use your computer,” Keir Thomas writes for Cult of Mac.
“Open System Preferences (Apple menu->System Preferences), click the Trackpad icon, make sure the Point & Click tab is selected, then put a check next to Three Finger Drag,” Thomas writes. “Doing so activates the best-kept secret for Macs with a trackpad. Ignore the simple description: ‘Move with three fingers.’ That’s the least of the productivity benefits this tweak can bring.”
Here are the rest:
• Coasting windows
• Copying files
• Downloading web images
• Moving windows
• Selecting text
• Selecting within a list
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I’ve been using the three finger drag since I got the track pad a month or so ago. I love it, tho my wife and kids don’t seem too comfortable with it.
Really? My wife loves it when I do the three-finger drag. Wait, what are we talking about again?
——RM
+1
I just spit up my coke I was laughing so hard…
I can’t be the only one who thought something dirty when they read “use three fingers and revolutionize”
her experience. Two in the….wrong website.
Two in the pink and one in the brown?
Two in the pink and one in the stink.
Completely agree – using three fingers to move things around on the desktop is wonderful.
Just tried It… Cool!!
arrrggg, it took me a two weeks to figure out what I was doing wrong with two finger swiping for page up and down. The dashboard kept popping up when I scrolled up or down. I tried disabling dashboard, too, and then thought it must be something wrong with my fingers. I finally figured out that I needed to keep my two fingers apart when scrolling up or down. Putting my fingers together and swiping up or down made the dashboard popup. Spreading my fingers apart, then swiping up or down gave me the page up or down without the dashboard.
Okay, JJ, back to you!
On MY MBP, turning on three-finger dragging ALSO TURNS OFF single-finger dragging… NOT a rational change.
Yep, I’ve been using this since I first got my MacBook Pro. It’s so satisfying and effective.
TWSS
Guys, use BetterTouchTool
You can configure over 50 types of gestures! It’s been around for more than a year now and it’s amazing!