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I use the kinda hidden three finger dragging gesture that you can activate like this: 1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility. 2
by iwebdevfromhome 4y ago
I use the kinda hidden three finger dragging gesture that you can activate like this:
1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility.
2. Select Pointer Control in the sidebar. (In earlier versions of macOS, select Mouse & Trackpad.)
3. Click the Trackpad Options button.
4. Select ”Enable dragging,” then choose ”three finger drag” from the menu.
5. Click OK.
- nicwolff 4y agoThat's not the same at all, you can still only drag the move bar – and it focuses the window, bringing it to the front. Moving and resizing background windows can very handy.
- incanus77 4y agoI always turn this on as well, but yes, it doesn't allow different moving of windows.
- mistersquid 4y ago> Moving and resizing background windows can very handy. I didn't notice moving and resizing background windows is enabled by the OP writeup and am not in a place where I can implement changes. Does defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true in fact enable manipulation of background windows?
- toomim 4y agoYou can move (or do anything to) a background window without focusing it by holding `cmd` while clicking or dragging.
- eevilspock 4y agoTHANK YOU!
- ugh123 4y agoI just tried this and it should be warned that this resets existing "three finger drag" (for mission control and switching desktops) to "four finger drag". This took me a while to figure out after thinking something was seriously broken, even after going back and disabling the new setting you mentioned.
- mark-wagner 4y agoTo be explicit, the fix is to go into the trackpad options, more gestures, and change "swipe between full screen apps" (poor name choice) to three fingers.
- iwebdevfromhome 4y agoah you're right! I've instinctively changing that to four fingers with every mac I have to setup. Thanks for the clarification.
- thebean11 4y agoInsane to me that this isn't the default. So much more ergonomic than press-dragging.
- macintux 4y agoAbsolutely. This and tap to click reduce so much friction it’s a world of difference.
- jonwinstanley 4y agoAgreed
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoFYI, that apple logo character isn't a 'real' emoji — it doesn't display on non-Apple devices.
- DavideNL 4y ago> "In Unicode, the Private Use Areas (PUA) are three ranges of code points (U+E000–U+F8FF in the BMP, and in planes 15 and 16) that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the Unicode Consortium. The code points in these areas can not be considered as standardized characters in Unicode itself. They are intentionally left undefined so that third parties may define their own characters without conflicting with Unicode Consortium assignments." https://codepoints.net/U+F8FF https://codepoints.net/U+F8FF
- oneeyedpigeon 4y agoThat's great info, as is the page it links to: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/OSX/unicode_apple_logo.html http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/OSX/unicode_apple_logo.html
- anyfoo 4y agoThanks for spreading, one of the very first things I enable. How this isn't the default escapes me.
- mikewhy 4y agoI love three-finger-drag. You can also just flick one of your fingers after starting a drag and it has momentum, great for sliders/dials. Sadly, it's supported less and less in Apple's own apps: - if you use the gesture in Finder, it can get confused and mess up all mouse clicks - it doesn't work at all with the sliders in the new control center menu
- case 4y agoYep, this used to be much easier to find, and it got moved to the Accessibility settings a few releases ago? Can’t imagine dragging without this.