5 Finger Swipe Gestures Don't Work as Expected on Monterey

Bug Reports
1

Hello,

When I use 5 Finger Swipe Up/Down the system tries to perform the system actions for the respective 4-finger gestures (Mission Control or App Expose) for a second and then performs the actually configured 5 Finger gesture.

In the attached video I use 4 Fingers Up (MacOS


default) gesture and then try to use configured in BTT 5 Fingers Up gesture with the "Test" HUD.
How it used to work: the Mission Control is not triggered when I use 5 Fingers Up. Now it is.

Note:
It applies to 5 Finger Gestures to any of the 4 directions.
If there's a system action for a respective 4 Finger Gesture, then it is triggered when I use a 5F gesture as well.

Just tried with:

  • The latest alpha version installed
  • Computer restarted
  • On Macbook Air (M1) on Monterey
2

if you want to use the five finger swipes in BTT you also need to configure the four finger swipes in BTT and disable the system ones.

3

Thanks, I'll try.
Question though: It was working perfectly fine before Monterey with the standard gestures on. Is this something related to the new OS then?

4

Mhh there definitely have been macOS versions where it was necessary to disable the system gestures before, but it is possible that there were differences. I don't remember what it was like on Big Sur because I had disabled the system gestures immediately.

The problem is, BTT can not access the internal gesture state of macOS, they are fully separate (apart from pinch & rotate). Thus the system won't know what BTT does and will execute its standard algorithms (which currently seem to trigger four finger swipes when doing 5 finger swipes as well)

5

That's what I thought, thanks!
Replaced the standard gestures, everything seems to work.

BTW, just bought your new license and wanted to say thanks for this app, I seriously cannot imagine my life without lots of custom gestures I can do on a trackpad with BTT.
Awesome app!

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