Three Finger Swiping

[THENEWGUY]

I can't find anywhere on how to control what swiping does to Dexpot...

For some reason, Dexpot automatically switches Desktops when I three finger swipe, but sadly this AMAZING feature only works about 20% of the time...
Any help or suggestions? Is this just my poor touchpad?

[Patrick]

It works only when the mouse pointer is over the taskbar or the desktop background.

Dexpot doesn't actually have any multi-touch capabilities, but you can switch desktops by clicking with the extra mouse buttons for forward/backward navigation on the taskbar or the desktop. Your touchpad driver probably translates three-finger swipes into these navigation commands.

[pkraft1]

I have a Lenovo u400 with a cypress trackpad. I have successfully made swipe gestures work to trigger dexpot. The reason 3 finger swipe triggers a change in desktop sometimes is that the way most multitouch gesture trackpads work is to send a keystroke. This means that when you are, for instance, on your desktop, 3 finger swipe might send pageup or pagedown, which might be configured as switch to next/previous desktop in Dexpot, which triggers the action. You can change the keystrokes that your trackpad sends for each gesture in the registry, but if that is too scary for some users. I've done it, but I've spent probably 100+ hours messing around in it to figure out which each key does. Another option is to open the settings for Dexpot, go to Controls, go to the specific action you want to happen, select the field in which you would type the keystroke (for instance, if you want page up to have pageup go to the next desktop, the field you'd put that in) and swipe on your trackpad the direction with the # of fingers you want. Dexpot picked it up when I did this, and this will basically get you what you want.

The only problem is that the Trackpad registry files have the gestures do different things depending on which program is active. For example, in Firefox, 3 finger swipe left/right goes back/forward a page, 3 finger up/down cycles through your tabs. The only way to change this is to edit the registry. After about 2 or 3 hours of messing around in the registry, I found that it was surprisingly intuitive, with a handful of roadblocks here and there.

So this is what I have now: four finger swipe up launches dexcontrol. in Dexcontrol, 4 finger swipe up or down ends the dexcontrol and selects the currently selected window. 4 finger swipe left/right launches dexcontrol and selects the next window. upon releasing all my fingers, it ends dexcontrol and activates that window it selected. If, however, I leave 3 fingers on the trackpad and tap the other, it will cycle select the next window (equivalent of hitting the right arrow key in dexcontrol). releasing these 3 fingers at once also activates the selected window, ending the dexcontrol session. All of this I have done over the past 3 or 4 months with a combination of Dexpot settings, Registry edits, and autohotkey.

[Dale]

I have just received a touch mouse and have got it set up perfectly with any swiping that i wanted.

I use the thumb right/left swipe to switch desktops and the 3 finger swipe up/down to do the desktop preview.

What you need to do is assign a custom key to the gestures in the microsoft keyboard and mouse center.

1. Launch the microsoft keyboard and mouse center and find your touch mouse.
2. Under basic settings, choose the gesture you want to change (such as thumb right).
3. Click "Key Combination" and select your desired keyboard shortcut, preferably something unused, such as CTRL + SHIFT +ALT + RIGHT.
4. Repeat for all your desired gestures.

Then it's just a case of going into the dexpot controls and assigning the relevant actions with the keyboard shortcuts you just specified. Then, when the gesture is performed, dexpot picks up the combination and fires the command.

Enjoy!

Dale

[DesertShadow]

Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse Center will not even open unless you own a "Microsoft" branded mouse or keyboard. (Tested Windows 8 Dec 2013)

[alex_gh]

For me the Three finger swipe switches desktop. Bu t i actually dont want it to perform this way, Does anyone have any idea what i can do to fix this?

[Patrick]

"Mouse 4" and "Mouse 5" buttons switch desktops

[alex_gh]

Thanks for the link.
Unfortunateley even though the registry change was applied the desktop still switches on three finger swipe.

[Patrick]

"Are you sure you closed Dexpot before making the change?"

[alex_gh]

Yes, i made sure to exit the program before, and if i check the registry now the value is still 0. but the problem persists.

[Patrick]

Try deleting the "Next desktop" and "Previous desktop" hotkeys: Settings > Controls > Hotkeys > Switch desktop.

[alex_gh]

That did the trick

I had ALT + "Left/Right Arrow" before.
Changed it to ALT + SHIFT + "Left/Right Arrow"
now the three finger swipe no longer switches desktop.

Thanks alot