2 and 3 finger tip taps and swipes don't work at all

Bug Reports
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1 finger tip taps work fine, two finger taps, three finger regular taps work fine, 4 finger taps, basically any trigger except 2 fix and 3 fix finger tip taps or swipes.

they don't register at all, it's either a bug or something in my system is blocking them but I don't know what, I already went into system preferences trackpads and nothing seems to conflict, played with alot of trackpad settings in btt, couldn't get a single trigger to work, weird, would like to troubleshoot it.

any help appreciated thanks.

version 3.401 (1631)
macbook air mid 2012
catalina 10.15.6

2

What kind of actions do you have assigned?

3

hi thanks for response, I tried just simple actions for global all apps to test, mute audio, display sleep, command space to show spotlight, nothing I do picks them up.

is there some debug or log I can show or maybe I can export my settings and do reinstall or reset all settings?

4

Do you maybe have three finger dragging enabled on your system?

(logs exist but they don’t cover specific things like this)

5

didn't even know that was hidden in accesibility but no, it was disabled, only thing in there with a check mark is spring-loading delay, and scrolling with inertia.

6

would complete uninstall reinstall be worth a try?

edit: I logged into a guest account to try, which was pretty bare bones and clean.

I tried to run btt, it made me update, so I did and downloaded a clean better touch tool, and 2 fix gesture worked, so something in my user account? is screwing it up.

I have so many apps I have no idea what it could be.

from what I read online about trackpad problems, my options are:

complete uninstall and reinstall better touch tool and import my saved preset

reset smc, nvram, pram. (I'm a little scared to reset these and screw something up in my system but I will try if it might fix it).

what should I try? At least I know it's possible and something I can fix, I was going to buy a magic trackpad and that probably still wouldn't have worked :cry:

edit again: I defaulted all settings, and they sort of work, I'll have to mess around a bit

edit again well after uninstalling and reinstalling all of my trackpad gestures work now, I had been pretty liberal messing around in the trackpad settings, what part of them specifically could have caused the 2 and 3 finger fixes and swipes not to work at all vs working fine? I might want to change some things without effecting those if I could.