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OS X Lion: Enable One Finger Drag Gesture « Navin Peiris

OS X Lion: Enable One Finger Drag Gesture « Navin Peiris


22 Friday Jul 2011
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Lion doesn’t come with the same one finger click-and-drag gesture that used to be in Snow Leopard, and instead the user has an option of enabling a three finger drag gesture through the system preferences. This post shows you how to re-enable the one finger drag gesture.
To enable one finger drag, go to System Preferences, click on Universal Access, and then the Mouse & Trackpad tab. Now click on the “Trackpad Options…” button available at the bottom of this screen. Enable the second option, which is named “Dragging” and select the desired dragging behaviour from the drop down list:
After this you should be able to do one finger click and dragging just like in good old Snow Leopard :) .

John Lazzaro said:
It doesn’t appear to be necessary to turn of the 3-finger move
gesture in order to re-activate the one-finger move gesture,
both can be active at once. Also, the tracking speed
slider in the UA pane is capable of extremely fast moves,
faster than one gets by maxing out the tracking speed in
the Touchpad pane alone.
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navinpeiris said:
Thanks for that John, you are absolutely right. I’ve updated the post as such.
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Jay Boshara said:
Navin, if I had the dough to publicize this, I’d have your article translated into as many languages as are used to sell Macs in Apple Stores worldwide.
I can’t believe all the patronizing, unilateral #@$!-ups Apple packed into Lion — nor how long I suffered with this one before I thought to Google it and found your brilliance. Kudos!
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navinpeiris said:
Hahaha! Thanks Jay. Yeah, it was quite a bit of an annoyance, specially since the option to re-enable it has to be in the last place anyone would think of looking. Cheers.
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