# Apple Remote Desktop

**URL:** <https://community.folivora.ai/t/apple-remote-desktop/6228>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** keyboard, gesture\
**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/apple-remote-desktop/6228 "2019-01-14T23:50:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![enken](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/enken/32/22270_2.png) [@enken](https://community.folivora.ai/u/enken)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2019, 11:50pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/apple-remote-desktop/6228/1 "2019-01-14T23:50:15Z")

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Hi,

I use my Mac laptop to control a home Mac desktop computer, using Apple Remote Desktop. I'd love it if I could configure BTT to ("App Specific" for ARD) forward (with exceptions?) my laptop Gestures/Triggers to the desktop, so that BTT on the desktop could receive them and interpret them, thus making it more like I am using the remote desktop directly.

(For now, I have created ARD-specific gesture preferences on my laptop to send Custom Keyboard Shortcut to the desktop, and I wanted to mention for anyone reading that "Compatibility mode for shortcut sending…" was necessary to get this working right — but this workaround doesn't allow for App-specific actions or predefined/system actions on the desktop.)

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**Author:** ![Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/andreas_hegenberg/32/39221_2.png) [@Andreas\_Hegenberg](https://community.folivora.ai/u/Andreas_Hegenberg)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 9:39am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/apple-remote-desktop/6228/2 "2019-01-15T09:39:09Z")

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Sorry unfortunately this is very unlikely to be ever added to BTT. It would require a separate remote connection to the BTT on the other computer and lots of additional code for a very niche use case.

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**Author:** ![enken](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/enken/32/22270_2.png) [@enken](https://community.folivora.ai/u/enken)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2019, 6:23pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/apple-remote-desktop/6228/3 "2019-01-15T18:23:55Z")

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## Thanks for your message. BTT is a great tool, thank you for it!

My line of thinking is:

BTT Remote already offers the remote-connection possibility. BTT Remote on iPhone is a client and BTT on computer is server, but why can't BTT on computer also be capable of being a client so that computers can trigger each other?

Maybe it's not in the cards, but thanks for having a forum where I can express this wish.

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**Author:** ![GestureKing](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/gestureking/32/5478_2.png) [@GestureKing](https://community.folivora.ai/u/GestureKing)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 11:08pm UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/apple-remote-desktop/6228/4 "2022-07-03T23:08:50Z")

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Were you trying to use mouse or trackpad gestures on your Mac and have them work on the remote Mac through ARD?

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**Author:** ![enken](https://community.folivora.ai/user_avatar/community.folivora.ai/enken/32/22270_2.png) [@enken](https://community.folivora.ai/u/enken)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://community.folivora.ai/t/apple-remote-desktop/6228/5 "2022-07-05T09:53:11Z")

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Ideally, yes