xGestures brings mouse gestures to all aspects of Mac OS X. Use xGestures to add normal directional mouse gestures and rocker gestures to the Finder, Safari, any of your favorite applications, or to the entire system as a whole.
Man, I miss xGestures. Surely trust the developer will update a version for Lion OS. It was great when it first arrived on the Mac scene and great up until Lion where is it hit a snag (called Lion).
Updated to OS X Lion, and most things worked well except it would complain that if I wanted to open xGesture downloaded from Internet on every start and it also took long time to start xGesture.
I guest it has sth to do with com.apple.quarantine. Wish the developer could fix this.
Just wonder if it is possible to make this app available on AppStore and transfer our purchases there, so that more people will know this gr8t app.
Forget to mention: I installed xGesture on my Mac Air with a fresh OS X Lion, rather than installing on Snow Leopard and then upgrading to OS X Lion. It complained sth on installation, but still succeeded at last. And after xGesture started, everything worked fine like Snow Leopard.
Brian's last blog update is from a couple of months ago.
http://guygizmo.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-xgestures-news-plus-getting.html
I emailed him because I can't even install it in Lion. The installer complains about permissions or something.
If I install it manually, will it work? Has anyone else done a Lion upgrade on top of their Snow Leopard with xGestures installed?
The developer finally got back to me a month later after my second email to him. It wouldn't register because it was checking for my email address to be case sensitive, which seems odd... Anyways, finally registered and the webpages are working again too...
I find xGesutures absolutely indispensable. I wouldn't upgrade to another version of the Mac OS without it.
The only thing I really wish it could do is have the option to detect when you plug in a mouse and then have the gestures switch from the "Pressing a key on the keyboard" option to "Click and holding a mouse button..etc" option, instead of having to do that manually every time I switch between using my laptops trackpad and mouse.
Having become hooked on mouse gestures in Windows - using the awkwardly-named app "StrokeIt" - xGestures was like a savior when I started using OS X. While xGestures doesn't recognize curved or diagonal gestures like StrokeIt does, as the developer points out this can actually be an advantage, since your gestures are less likely to be misinterpreted. Aside from that, xGestures' practical range of options and extensive list of actions make it very flexible and easy to configure to one's working habits. It's a must-install app on any Mac I use.
xGestures is still the best mouse gesture app for Macs, but unfortunately it causes a jerky mouse arrow movement in games like Diablo II, Baldur's Gate II etc. When I deactivate xGestures, then those games' mouse arrow movement is smooth again.
Exactly. xGestures can't work with everything and the dev can't know every app/game on the planet. But the dev was smart enough to let you exclude things like that. Not sure why you are complaining about it. Just disable xGestures for that game, end of problem.
Yes, thank you all. As aforesaid I was complaining because unfortunately it caused a jerky mouse arrow movement in games like Diablo II, Baldur's Gate II etc. But the "exclude" function deactivates that.
Version 1.5 does not launch at start-up, despite having the checkbox marked in the prefpane. It can't be added as a Startup Item in the Accounts prefpane. Any ideas?
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xGestures brings mouse gestures to all aspects of Mac OS X. Use xGestures to add normal directional mouse gestures and rocker gestures to the Finder, Safari, any of your favorite applications, or to the entire system as a whole.
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Jichi reviewed on 04 Jan 2012
I guest it has sth to do with com.apple.quarantine. Wish the developer could fix this.
Just wonder if it is possible to make this app available on AppStore and transfer our purchases there, so that more people will know this gr8t app.
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http://guygizmo.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-xgestures-news-plus-getting.html
I emailed him because I can't even install it in Lion. The installer complains about permissions or something.
If I install it manually, will it work? Has anyone else done a Lion upgrade on top of their Snow Leopard with xGestures installed?
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Jichi reviewed on 27 Dec 2010
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"I bought xGestures last night and it won't register. It says it's invalid.
Also, when I go to your website the support and download pages cannot be found:
http://briankendall.net/xGestures/download.htm
http://briankendall.net/xGestures/support.htm
And why do we need an installer, which freaks out trying to find xgestures.app, when all we need is a double clickable preference pane?
What's going on?"
I feel cheated.
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The only thing I really wish it could do is have the option to detect when you plug in a mouse and then have the gestures switch from the "Pressing a key on the keyboard" option to "Click and holding a mouse button..etc" option, instead of having to do that manually every time I switch between using my laptops trackpad and mouse.
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Mcusr reviewed on 19 Jan 2010
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Gurubez reviewed on 05 Nov 2009
worth every Penny !!!
Highly racomanded!!
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Fontbot reviewed on 24 Oct 2009
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Mark Collins rated on 30 Dec 2011
JaeHong rated on 27 Nov 2011
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Kgx rated on 30 Aug 2011