TrackPad Gestures in TouchBar

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
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Hi, I stablished a few 1 finger tap on the corners and top side of the TrackPad to open different things such as Launchpad, Spotlight and so on. Everything is great except that the TouchBar appears to use the same triggers. For example I have my TrackPad to open spotlight whenever I do a 1 finger tap on the right top corner, that works just fine, the problem is that my TouchBar opens spotlight whenever I tap the right top corner of the TouchBar. Also with Launchpad with 1 finger tap in the top center of the Trackpad, the Touch Bar whenever I tap the center of the Touch Bar, Launchpad opens...

I don't have any gestures on the TouchBar, also tried to install different presets for the TouchBar and they appear fine but if I touch the center, Launchpad opens just as the TrackPad configuration... Is this intended? It's getting annoying because even when I disable the BTT TouchBar, the gestures are still active. I don't want my TouchBar to have the same gestures as my TrackPad.

I have a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro running 11.1
I'm running the 3.531 version of BTT

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ohh that’s very interesting, maybe on the M1 the Touch Bar delivers tracking data? (I don’t have one yet)

Could you please open the BTT preferences and click „view -> show live view“ in the main menu? Does it show Touch Bar touches?

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Hi, I've just found out that both the Trackpad and the TouchBar are seen as Magic Trackpads. The TouchBar is Magic Trackpad 1 and the Trackpad built-in is the Magic Trackpad 2 so I configured the gestures in the Required Trackpad Type (under Advanced) to use Magic Trackpad 2 Only. I don't have the problem anymore. :slight_smile:

Regarding the Show Live View, TouchBar touches and gestures are shown!

Thanks for the fast response!

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That’s awesome! I think I’ll need to get one of these machines now :grinning:

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Starting from 3.550 the M1 Touch Bar doesn't trigger the trackpad gestures anymore. If wanted this now needs to be explicitly set:

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Most trackpad gestures don't work well on the Touch Bar anyways (yet), but some like 2 / 3 Finger Swipe Down can actually be useful.