Using 4 finger swipe gestures on non Unibody laptops.

[rp2000]

Found this earlier. This allows the people with the early 2008 MBP and MBA v1 to use the 4 finger swipes that Apple only currently offer for the Unibody machines (even though these older machines have the relevant hardware support). (This only works on machines that already had 3 finger multitouch gestures).

When they first added 4 finger support I was annoyed they didn't give the update to existing machines. At the time it was quite a fiddly process to get the older machines hacked for this. This whole procedure took me less than 10 minutes and only involves copying/overwriting a file and then repairing disk permissions.

Now I can use 4 fingers up for "Show Desktop" and 4 fingers down for Expose. Handy as I had these allocated to the bottom 2 hot corners.

http://www.super-poultry.com/2008/12/4-finger-multi-touch-for-older-mbps/


rp2000

 

[unknowndomain]

Nice to know, not really the most elegant gesture I prefer to use the keyboard button tan move my hand but still its free!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 651465]

I don't think I could function without the 4-finger gestures (particularly exposé).

Every time I use an older Mac / PC laptop I always do the "swipe" to no avail

If rumors are true, Apple were looking at allowing these gestures to be user customisable on Leopard, during the introduction of the unibodys. Which would open up some nice alternatives.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/13/customizable-4-finger-gestures-planned-by-apple/