After apologizing for the title of this post, I am happy to announce the release of a new app which I am calling MultiClutch. It’s a beta, though it has been in testing privately since the first week I got my Macbook Air and put it together. In honor of the new multitouch-equipped Macbook Pros, I’m going to make it public in hopes that others will find it useful. Basically, MultiClutch allows you to assign custom keyboard shortcuts in a given app to a given gesture. Want swipes to change tabs in Safari? Done. The same in iChat? Done. Want zoom-in to open emails in Mail, zoom-out to close windows in every app, and a swipe down to bring up Quicksilver? Done done done.
MultiClutch works by installing a simple input manager that will catch a gesture events, looks to see what shortcut you’ve defined for it in the frontmost app (if you haven’t defined anything, it behaves in the standard manner), and performs that shortcut. You use a System Preference Pane to customize gestures with an interface similar to the shortcut-customization table in the Keyboard & Mouse pane. You can ‘bind’ gestures in a given Cocoa app (due to the nature of input managers, Carbon apps are not supported) or globally. In addition to zooming in and out, and rotaing in either direction, and the four swipe directions, I’ve been experimenting with ‘combo’ gestures. Right now, I’ve added the ‘zoom in, zoom out’ gesture (i.e., in one fluid motion) and vice-versa, with more perhaps to come if I find them to be intuitive and useful enough.
This app is currently in beta, so it should go without saying that you should use it at your own risk and have a backup before you install it. That being said, I and several other testers have been running the app smoothly on our systems for quite some time, and MultiClutch is very careful to be safe in the way that it supports gestures. Please get back to me with feedback if you have ideas or run into issues.
If you’d like to donate to help support the time I took developing MultiClutch (which was not insignificant), you may do so by following this Paypal link.
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Update: There was a rare issue where binding certain key combinations could cause the preference pane to hang. A new beta fixing this issue is up and it is a recommended upgrade. MultiClutch will prompt you to install the new input manager when you install the preference pane.
Update 2: Fixed donation link =).
Note: Multiclutch uses a modified version of a bit code from shortcutrecorder to help display custom shortcuts to the user, and I thank those developers for their hard work in the frustrating area of converting keycodes to characters.
February 29, 2008 at 10:30 am
Can you combine other keys with the gestures to get other results or to maintain your default gestures? (e.g. ctrl + pinch = open a webpage while pinch alone = default zoom out)
February 29, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Hi TJ,
Not in the current version, but I may consider it for future versions. Best,
William Henderson
February 29, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Does this work in Tiger?
February 29, 2008 at 2:10 pm
It for Macbook Airs and new Macbook Pros, which do not run tiger.
February 29, 2008 at 2:12 pm
So these use modifier keys, correct? So will the defaults be left alone? I would like the expanded behavior just not replacement behavior.
Thanks,
Michael
patiently waiting for his new MacBook Pro…
February 29, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Michael,
The defaults are left alone if you don’t redefine them. The way it works is you pick the app you want to customize gesture behavior in, and you pick the gesture you want to customize. Then it redefines the gesture behavior for that gesture in that app (only). Best,
wc
March 1, 2008 at 6:56 am
Been using the beta you put up on MacRumors for a while now and I’m absolutely loving it. I just made a small donation to express my gratitude. This app makes multitouch extremely fun and, better yet, useful.
Only one question though: I want to use Zoom In in Camino, it’s mapped to command+ there, but I can’t get the + in the MultiClutch prefpane, the closest I get is command= (+ and = sharing the same key and all). Any thoughts on that?
Thanks!
March 1, 2008 at 8:04 am
Is this only for leopard? I was really excited when I downloaded it but it didn’t work on 10.4.11
March 3, 2008 at 6:28 am
Well gee Zack… take about one second to think about that question AFTER actually understanding what MultiClutch IS (it’s called “comprehensive reading). You’ve earned yourself a token “well duuuh!!”, since considering that it doesn’t run on anything but Air’s and the NEWEST MBP’s, it quite OBVIOUSLY doesn’t run on Tiger, since THEY don’t run on Tiger! Get it? And since you’re running Tiger you quite obviously don’t have either an Air nor new MBP… so double “duuuh!”
March 3, 2008 at 8:57 am
Sounds great–many thanks! I will try it once I have a compatible laptop.
It sounds like you can assign 3-finger swipes in all 4 directions?
Can you assign 2-finger swipes in 4 directions too? Or will those always be interpreted as scrolling/panning no matter what? Some apps don’t have much use for scrolling, so it would be nice to let 2-finger swipes perform other tasks in those apps.
March 3, 2008 at 10:19 am
Morgan,
You can assign 3-finger swipes in all four directions. 2-finger scrolling is not currently included but I will consider it for future versions. Thanks!
wc
March 3, 2008 at 11:14 am
Oh my, these “does this work in Tiger”-questions make me wait for the first “I tried it with my regular MacBook, but it doesn’t work” post. Thanks for the great app, although I can’t use it, I think it is awesome for the people who actually can.
March 3, 2008 at 10:52 pm
This is utter crap. It doesn’t even work on my Newton!
March 3, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Timtim:
Is your Newton running Tiger or Leopard?
March 4, 2008 at 7:59 am
I think Timtim was just being funny
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Can’t wait to try this w my new MBP!
Jeff
March 4, 2008 at 11:35 am
Installed the app, configured Swipe Left and Swipe Right for the commands of page-back and page-forward in Firefox, restarted Firefox, nothing. For some reason the finger-swipes aren’t causing any commands to take place…
March 4, 2008 at 2:57 pm
So I guess it doesn’t work with a Windows Vista UMPC huh??
Cool app- looking forward to trying it on my Air.
March 4, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Huh. I just installed this on my new MBP, it’s working great, except now when I try to go to Multiclutch in the Sys Prefs, it hangs on “Loading Multiclutch”, and I have to quit Sys Prefs to unfreeze it. Note that the Multiclutch gestures still work, I just can’t edit them now. Any ideas? I installed for the user.
March 4, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Elliot,
Please contact me at william (dot) c (dot) henderson (at the server) gmail so that we can figure out what is going on and fix it. Thanks!
wc
March 4, 2008 at 5:44 pm
This sounds awesome! I can’t wait to try this out on my new MBP when it comes in! Thanks for sharing such a useful app! It’s people like you that make the Mac so great! Keep up the good work and I’ll be donating as soon as I get to try it! Thanks again! One last thing, it is kind of a bummer that people who don’t have multitouch computers or ANY need for this software can’t get it to run!
(I’m confused why people are asking if this runs on Tiger, just as well ask if it runs on DOS!)
March 4, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Anyway to successfully get Multiclutch to switch between spaces using left and right swipe? I can get it to work when there is at least one open app in each space but if the space does not contain an open app you cannot swipe out of that space. I have a global setting for Left and Right Swipe with ^right arrow or ^left arrow.
March 4, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Disregard my last comment, I’m not that smart.
Figured it out, awesome! Turned off Control Arrows in Spaces first, assigned Control+Right Arrow and Control+Left Arrow globally then turned on Control Arrows again in Spaces. Thank you this is what i wanted to do since the first day I heard about multitouch pads.
March 4, 2008 at 10:49 pm
Hello,
i am currently desperately waiting for my new Macbook Pro (should have been shipped yesterday)!
What i would be interested in is the source – do you plan to open it or give it to other developers?
Because i’m a developer myself and i would be very interested!
Can’t wait to try your little program!
Regards
March 4, 2008 at 11:46 pm
The issue described by Elliot has been discovered and fixed. Please download the new beta if you are having issues.
March 5, 2008 at 2:57 am
Is it possible to add multitouch feature to other apple notebooks?
March 5, 2008 at 3:32 am
Hi there…
I just want to say this is a brilliant app! I have installed this on my new MBP and MBA and I’m so thrilled with all the new possibilities. These new combos save me a bunch of time when browsing!
I wish apple included these from the start…but thanks again for the brilliant app/sys pref!
Chris
March 5, 2008 at 3:34 am
Will…
BTW, tried to make a paypal donation, but it said there is something wrong with the merchant’s email address.
Thanks again for this great addition to multi-touch!
March 5, 2008 at 7:19 am
Chris: thanks for the heads up. The link on the site was bad (the one in MultiClutch seemed OK) and has been fixed.
March 5, 2008 at 11:45 am
Wow…this is amazing…two questions…
1.) how are you mapping quicksilver to a gesture?
2.) is there any way to manually input commands in the pref pane? I’d like to do things like command+tab (switch applications)…but when I put in the key combination, the system responds to the command, changing the application (and not filling in the box in the control panel).
Awesome utility!
-Zach
March 5, 2008 at 11:55 am
Zach (and others wondering similar things),
To map to quicksilver, I’m simply mapping MultiClutch to the command-space keystroke I usually invoke QS with. As for the second question – this is a two part problem:
* The first is that if you press the keys for expose/spaces/application-switching/etc, that function activates before MultiClutch has a chance to grab it. This will be fixed in future versions but can be worked arround by disabling or changing their keys temporarily.
* The other issue is more fundamental. MultiClutch only works in Cocoa apps (whether for a Global binding or an application-specific one). So while the above will work to get expose/spaces working with gestures, the gestures will not work in Carbon apps. I’m sort of split on the issue of whether or not to even allow such functionality, since it will always be of limited use if it doesn’t work in every app, and has already been the source of much confusion. The issue is that there is no way to actually detect when gestures are performed in Carbon apps because they do not have the hitch-in mechanisms that Cocoa provides. I have been looking for alternatives, but thus far I’ve had no luck in the matter.
Hope that helps! Best,
wc
March 5, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hey Will,
Fantastic app that I’ve been long waiting for (well at least for the week I’ve had my MBP)!
I’m unclear how to add gestures to the Finder, I choose ‘/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app’ and ‘Relaunched’ the Finder but the gestures I assigned don’t work (Swipe Up & Swipe Down = move up or down in directory, ie, cmd-up arrow & cmd-down arrow; Swipe Left & Right = rotate windows, ie, cmd-` & cmd-shift-`). Is there a way to make this work I’m missing?
Thanks for wonderful piece of work.
March 5, 2008 at 5:50 pm
This is a great app, thanks for the hard work!
I was wondering if you could list some of the more useful command changes (swiping in firefox and such) as examples! I thought this would be good so you wouldn’t have to explain some of the more popular ones to everyone who asked.
speaking of, how do you change it so that you can use swipes to switch between tabs in firefox? Thanks!
March 5, 2008 at 5:59 pm
OH! and one last question for now. Is it possible (or would it be possible to implement in a later version) the ability to set double clicks (as in a two fingered double click) to implement certain commands? Thanks!
March 5, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I figured out the flipping through tabs by poking around a bit! The application is really fun! sorry to fill your comments area but now you don’t need to tell me that one!
new question: will this work with MS office for mac? I am assuming not… but… just thought I’d check
March 6, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Thanks for the great util! for Firefox for some reason the short cut cmd + the square brackets don’t work though the cmd + arrows works perfectly!
March 6, 2008 at 7:56 pm
Will-
This app fills a real need and I thank you for it. I’d like to report similar problem that Nick had w/ Firefox and MultiClutch.
I have mapped 4 shortcuts to gestures for Firefox: swipe left (command+[ ), swipe right ( command+] ), zoom in ( command+= ), and zoom out ( command+- ).
Right off the bat it worked great. Then after rebooting my laptop I fired up Firefox and, nothing. I can’t get it to work again and the entries in the pref pane are still there. I even deleted them and recreated them and its like Firefox does not register them.
March 6, 2008 at 8:50 pm
This is a great app, but it is easy to see why it is still in beta. Half the time it doesn’t work, especially in Firefox and Finder. I don’t seem to be the only one experiencing this, either.
I’m running OS X 10.5.2 on a new MBP with multitouch, and Firefox 2.0.0.12.
I promise I will make a donation as soon as it works consistently, all the time. Keep up the good work!
March 6, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Guys, neither firefox nor the finder are cocoa apps…
March 6, 2008 at 11:57 pm
to get it to work in firefox you need to download the beta of the new Firefox 3
March 7, 2008 at 2:13 am
hi
would this work with Touchpad pro (iphone app) – http://touchpadpro.com/
it uses vnc to connect to the computer
March 7, 2008 at 10:45 pm
This is a great tool and works well, but the fact that it only works for Cocoa apps is a dealbreaker for me.
Besides, it will be obsolete when Apple releases the real thing:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/02/19/apple-depicts-advanced-multitouch-gesturing-control-panel-in-mac-os-x/
Just being able to switch between open windows (Cmd + ` and Cmd + Shift + `) or using Expose (F9 and F10) with swipe gestures was thrilling, though, so I commend you. I can’t wait to be able to map those four commands to the 4 directions of the swipe gesture and have it work everywhere.
March 9, 2008 at 3:34 am
Hi
What’s the best way to uninstall this? Are there any special things that need to be done, or can I just remove the prefpane the usual way?
It’s cool software, but I always like the possibility for uninstalling easily, as the app fiddles a bit with input managers.
March 9, 2008 at 10:33 am
Hi Felix,
Currently the only way to uninstall completely is to remove the input manager, located at /Library/InputManagers. Having an automated uninstaller is plan for the next release. Note that if you are only trying to upgrade, MultiClutch WILL uninstall the old version and put in the new one. Best,
William Henderson
March 10, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Thanks for an outstanding tool. I have one problem. For a while, I had it working great in Firefox. Swipe left / right would do page back and forward and swipe up / down would do shift tabs. I got addicted to this new ability. Then, after a restart, Firefox no longer works. Other apps I have configured in MultiClutch still works, just not Firefox. I tried deleting the Firefox entry and recreating it, but that didn’t help. I also tried disabling all my add-ons to see if one of them was the culprit.
Any ideas?
March 10, 2008 at 5:11 pm
Im utterly confused as to how to ue this. I have it running. How to I set up actions in the pref pane? It currently has just GLOBAL in the left hand column. If I wanted to be able to swipe to change tabs in Safari for example, how would I set this up? There should be a small “How To” with this, while aI certainly appreciate the builder’s time and efforts so far.
March 12, 2008 at 10:49 am
Love the idea of the app, but it doesn’t work for me in Firefox, either. Unlike David, though, it never worked for me. Is there something new with this update of Firefox? Also, I have a brand new MacBook Pro, so maybe there’s something new in the OS or the touchpad that’s keeping it from working?
Thanks!
March 12, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I have a new Macbook Pro. I have not yet gotten MultiClutch to work, but I REALLY want it to. I am using Firefox, but I really like the “swipe left” and “swipe right” navigation in Safari. Is there any chance you would make this open source and let us play with it? I need a new project.
March 13, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Too bad it’s not working on a normal macbook, cuz it sounds awesome! You lucky basterds with enough money for a pro
March 14, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Thanks for the great tools.
Will it be feasible to have more complicated gesture?
For example, Swipe Down-Right (use three finger to draw a L), or Up-Down.
It will be great if we can have such gesture as it mimics quite some major mouse gestures in browsers (Firefox/Opera etc)
March 14, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Somehow i’s working now… Very weird. I’ll keep you updated if anything changes. I’m running firefox on a brand new macbook pro.
March 16, 2008 at 12:07 am
I realise multiclutch gestures stop working after I restart firefox or restart my MBA. But everytime, after surfing for about 10 minutes, I try the gestures again, and they will start working.
I think its a matter of when the OS will load those multiclutch gestures to the running instance of firefox.
I wonder if we can force firefox to load those multiclutch gestures everytime it starts up.
March 16, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Will, this is an excellent application. Thanks for coding it! I look forward to modifier key / gesture combinations in future releases – once I started swiping, proper keyboard shortcuts are just -so- passe.
March 16, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Nevermind. Not working, again.
I think Casper might be on to something.
March 17, 2008 at 3:50 am
Will, this is splendid work. However, I’m experiencing this problem where the preference pane refuse to record any shortcut keys that I’ve entered every now and then. To fix that, I need to install the preference pane again (without uninstalling/removing anything).
Also, the configuration is not allowing commands such as Cmd+W to be registered as a valid shortcut. I’m not sure if all these problems are a result of a limitation of shortcutrecorder or not though.
I’m on the multitouch MBP, if that helps. E-mail me if you need anything from me to debug.
Thanks again!
March 17, 2008 at 8:35 am
This is a wonderful app.. It’s a bit glitchy, but for those who have issues getting firefox working, try adding “.app” to the end of the application name.. This seemed to work for me for a bit, but then at some point it stops as well. Now I go into the pref pane to reconfigure and upon close the app closes.
Will, let me know if there’s a place you’d like me to submit bug reports to.. I’d be happy to help you troubleshoot this. Definitely filling a need, and when it was working, my browsing / code editing was an incredible experience.
Thanks much!
March 17, 2008 at 12:42 pm
I set it up and it worked great, it then stopped working, Is there a way to reinstall this?
March 19, 2008 at 3:49 am
I think Casper was on to something regarding getting the OS to load the multiclutch gestures. I have the same issue where firefox gestures don’t seem to work at first and then they suddenly start working. Based on Casper’s hypothesis, I tried to force the gestures to load by opening up an app that supports gestures directly (e.g. open a PDF in Preview). Then when I go back to Firefox, my gestures assigned to Firefox work.
I’m not sure if this always works, but it seemed to work the few times I’ve tried it so far. This should hold me over until the issue is addressed.
Will, thanks for the very cool app. You are very talented.
March 19, 2008 at 10:08 am
I’m looking into why you guys are having the intermittent successes with Firefox, but just to reiterate, Multicluth only works with Cocoa apps. Thus, unless you instal the new beta 3, you should not expect Firefox to work. That being said, I’ll do all I can to see if we can get it to work consistently somehow.
March 19, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Thanks for all the work. Firefox is, perhaps, the best application to use multicluch with. I dread having to leave the track pad to navigate between tabs and pages. A version of multiclutch that works with firefox consistently would be amazing. Being without multitouch functionality after experiencing it is like going back to a tabless browser.
Thanks again Will, this is the best application I’ve come across.
March 20, 2008 at 7:35 am
I assigned gestures to Flock (carbon Firefox based), and it didn’t work with multiclutch. I installed Flock 1.1, and hey presto, it worked! I shut down, next day, it didn’t work again until I started Safari. Thereafter, no more success….
March 21, 2008 at 11:19 am
I have a little bit of feedback to add to the pile as well.
As far as getting the gestures to take effect, I usually find that adding them while the app is closed or closing and re-opening the app after assigning gestures usually gets them working.
One bug that I’ve noticed (but I haven’t been able to consistently reproduce) is that sometimes my gestures will all just spontaneously disappear and I’ll have to go back and re-assign them. I’m not sure about the cause of this–it’s happened about twice so far–but if there’s anything I could do to debug this I’d be glad to try and help.
Finally, I have a comment about the interface. I understand that you have the add and remove buttons for the gesture assignments because you don’t want to take over all the assignments for an application, but I think it would be much faster to set up the gestures and easier to configure them if the panel just listed all of the gestures (I mean, there’s only 10 of them–they could all easily fit on one screen) and then you would just add keyboard shortcuts to the gestures which you wanted to use, and leave the fields blank (or use a “Remove shortcut” button) on gestures for which you don’t wish to assign a shortcut. Obviously this would take a little more logic for the program to make sure that it’s only using the assigned gestures (a task which the current interface delegates to the user), but I think it would improve the experience of setting up and modifying gestures very much.
March 22, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Try Firefox Beta 4 with multiclutch, it works ….my dream comes true…
March 24, 2008 at 11:58 am
Hi,
Firstly great app really nice to get things working in Firefox 3.0. However, the shortcut to switch tabs in firefox is control+tab-key, but when the tab key is hit the component registering the event changes focus. This is probably quiet hard to get around without being hacky, perhaps you should map and obsure combination say a+s+d held together as the tab key (that stinks of hack huh?), as realistically who wants a shortcut that is this keyboard combo?
I have seen other people had diffs with this. For the interest of those trying to findout how to switch tabs in firefox 3.0 the other shortcut that switches tabs is control+pageup and control+pagedown (or on a macbook keyboard control+fn+up-arrow and control+fn+down-arrow)
Anyhows once again great app, Mac should have this option pane as standard.
All the Best,
Brew
March 24, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Could you have a test or indication if it’s supported on the current installed hardware?
I have a recent MBP, but it doesn’t seem to be working… need either a test or just a red/green light for current status…
Ta,
-Adam
March 26, 2008 at 4:50 am
Hi,
Maybe I am asking something some one else already asked before, but i’l asked it anyway…
Can this app be using on a mb pro without the multi-touchpad?
I have the mbp pro with the touchpad where you can scroll with two fingers (2.2Ghz, previous modell)…
Greetings,
Henk
March 26, 2008 at 9:16 am
how do you add a gesture for finder only?
I can’t see finder in the list of apps.
March 27, 2008 at 2:37 pm
How do I know if an app is done in Cocoa or not? I have a new penryn MBP. Ordinarily, I use Opera on all my computers, whether they be Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows… but that swipe left/right has me using Safari 3 much more than I use anything else.
Oh and iTunes needs this stat!
March 27, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Henk and Adam, this will only work on the latest MBP (penryns) that were released 2/26 (2.4, 2.5, 2.6) with 10.5.2 (build 9C70101)
March 27, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Well works good with Opera. Only done some swipes, but I’ll no doubt add some others soon. Great App!
March 28, 2008 at 11:47 am
Any chance of getting this to work with spaces? I’d love to be able to ctrl-swipe to get to the next desktop…
Just a feature request
March 28, 2008 at 5:49 pm
This is working brilliantly in Firefox 3, thank you so much. One question: I’d like to assign “rotate right” to do a command click (open link in new tab). MultiClutch doesn’t recognize the click, is there any workaround I could use?
March 30, 2008 at 8:29 am
Been using it now for a while, and still love it. However, here are some ideas I’ve had:
Zooming should be convertable to Modifier+Scrool wheel. That way a more continuous zooming would be possible in Firefox (Ctrl+Scroll).
Secondary click should be reassignable as well. It could be assigned to cmd-click in Firefox for opening new tabs.
More combined gestures! I love zoom-in, zoom-out, but an L-formed swipe would feel more comfortable.
And I second the global shortcuts. Swiping for Spaces or iTunes from anywhere would be awesome. Maybe even allow binding to Applescripts.
Is there a way to differentiate between gesture sizes? A small swipe could do something else than a big swipe. Or the swipes could fire continuous events. That way you could go back several pages in Firefox with one long swipe, or swipe to continuously fast forward.
I know that not all of these will be technically feasible, but nothing wrong with brainstorming, eh?
March 30, 2008 at 3:22 pm
This is what multi-touch should be! when do you think we can expect the next version?
March 30, 2008 at 9:36 pm
This is strange: I have swipe right set to option+arrow (change spaces)…when iTunes is the active program, it doesn’t work, but when i type option+arrow, it does work.
Also, finder seems to be off and on with all gestures.
March 30, 2008 at 11:12 pm
Actually, iTunes seems to be compeletey unresponsive. While it’s the active app, global gestures don’t work.
March 31, 2008 at 2:18 am
@charly: sorry to say this, but there are at least 3 answers on your second question… carbon apps aren’t supported for now, so all apps that use the carbon (and not the cocoa) framework cant recognice the gestures with this extention… although it strangely worked one time with the firefox 2.0.0.13 or .12
if you wnat to find out if an app uses carbon: open the Activity Monitor, select the application and click the information option if you find “/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/…” in the opened files ‘n ports tab then it’s carbon..
greetings
April 1, 2008 at 12:12 am
Dang.
April 1, 2008 at 11:07 pm
Zooming: open syspref, accessibility, zoom options. You can set default zoom levels, then use the alt-splat-= key combo to zoom in directly. works great with the zoom-in gesture.
I’m having trouble entering key combos that are already bound to some function, like splat-tab. Perhaps the user should just enter the keys they want to bind one at a time? GamePadCompanion does this, and it works well.
in fact, i’ll donate $50 if this makes it into a future version.
Thanks for the great utility!
April 2, 2008 at 3:15 am
unfortunately it wont work at all on my mbp (15″, penryn) – maybe the german version of osx is the problem? and how can i uninstall it?
April 2, 2008 at 4:07 am
i git the german version and penryn as well, and it works… probably you only tried carbon apps
April 3, 2008 at 12:55 am
Brilliant piece of software, great work. Hope you are hard at work doing the next upgrade
Would love to be able to switch applications (command – tab) using a gesture, haven’t found a way to do this. A function for sharing sets of gestures for popular applications would be fantastic.
April 4, 2008 at 11:08 am
Heya,
Just an idea, Dont know if this is possible, but if a repeat rate could be spcified that would be awsome. I have mapped rotate right and rotate left for volume control in itunes, but las each twist is only a small increment and it doesnt measure how much I have rotated. Similar usage on the pinch for zoom would be good for when mapping to zoom on firefox.
Is the source open, I wouldnt mind having a peak.
All the Best,
Antony
April 5, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Hi,
This is an awesome app. I had the same problems with it only working intermittently with firefox v2. I’ve found a way to consistently get multiclutch to work with this version of firefox. Open firefox and then click on the help menu – don’t do anything else, just click out of the menu to close it. The gestures should then work.
This trick doesn’t seem to work with Photoshop though (another carbon app).
Thanks to will for developing this.
Mike
April 5, 2008 at 2:57 pm
MikeTheGoat – Great find. Clicking the Help menu works great!! Weird.
April 6, 2008 at 9:55 am
MikeTheGoat – You legend!
It worked for me in all Adobe cs3 apps. Wish i could buy you a beer
Oh and great work Mr Crawford
April 6, 2008 at 10:02 am
Glad to be of service. I’ll have another play with the CS3 apps that i’m running and see if I can get it working too. I have *no* idea why it works though.
April 6, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Hi,
I’m trying to use this very nice app with a danish keyboard and firefox 3 beta. that means that, when trying to map to cmd+[, I fail miserably, since on a danish keyboard that means pressing alt+cmd+8, which isn’t recognized by the shortcut catcher.
Is there any way to set the keyboard manually to cmd+[, or possibly just to the backspace key?
thanks in advance
/Jonas
April 6, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Hi Jonas, future version of MultiClutch will address this issue. In the meantime, you can edit the plist preference file if you are feeling adventurous – it’s called
com.wonderboots.MultiClutchBindings.plist
It stores the bindings as keycodes. So you could, for example, set a binding to apple-backspace and go in and remove the keycode for the apple key).
Here’s the list of keycodes for modifiers to help you:
control: 59
option: 58
shift: 56
apple: 55
Hope that helps!
April 8, 2008 at 5:01 pm
Well, i got to say that i had some hopes to see it working in my iBook G4. I mean, i can do two-finger scroll in it so what the heck, right? Sadly, Multiclutch installs but does not work at all (10.5.2). Oh, well… time to save some money for a new macbook.
April 9, 2008 at 7:23 am
Would be nice if this app could work with Adobe Lightroom
April 13, 2008 at 11:42 pm
I have been trying to get this to work with world of warcraft. What I wanted to do was add most of the character controls to the track pad but the problem i have is that the short cut is sent at the end of a gesture. This means that their is not a long enough key press to do any controls (usually to turn left you push and hold the ‘D’ key).
April 14, 2008 at 3:36 am
Hey Will,
Since I installed MC I have the trouble that when I use three finger swipe left this hides my window instead of going one step back… Swipe right still works… I unistalled Multiclutch but the problem stays… Any suggestions? Greets!
April 14, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Great job! I just with that carbon apps worked. It’s annoying when i go into a app and all of a sudden my shortcuts stop working.
April 14, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Ok the I saw this post in another website regarding three finger swiping for other pruposes. I downloaded the multiclutch works beautifully for safari in terms of swiping to switch tabs (took me a while to figure out what to do).
Now the real challenge using the swipe feature to switch spaces. IT must be achievable because it works for one swipe and then stops. but only works again after the systems preference is present in the window. I’m not sure if it needs to be refreshed or what.
Setup:
1. In multiclutch, setup the global setting for left and right swipe to map to keys command left and right.
2. Enable spaces
3. Set switching between spaces to command arrow keys
This should then enable you to just switch between spaces with the swipe of 3 fingers.
If it could work continuously it would be a GREAT feature for spaces. I can’t believe apple themselves didn’t make this a feature.
April 14, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Will, if you get that to work I will gladly donate US$50.
April 15, 2008 at 11:29 pm
holy crap, has anyone else noticed al the sudden itunes 7.6.2 works with MC?? it didn’t used to! WHAT DOES IT MEAN.
April 17, 2008 at 8:22 am
Noticed lots of these errors in Console.app:
Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
For just about every application. (iCal, Mail.app, Safari, etc)… the apps with default Multi-touch already?
April 20, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Multiclutch is awesome, absolutely the missing link for multitouch on OS X.
Couple of suggestions- as mentioned before, an L-shaped gesture would be really useful. Also, a 3-finger click would be great for middle click, to say open webpages in a new tab as one would use with a typical wheel mouse
April 21, 2008 at 1:08 am
How can i remove it???
THX
April 22, 2008 at 2:38 am
Ray, have you experimented with other gestures? I have just two workspaces, and so can swap between them by binding a single action – zoom-in-zoom-out. I have, however, found that this does not always work when the application I have in focus ‘captures’ the zoom-in or zoom-out input, such as a blank desktop (which changes the size of the icons), or iPhoto (which zooms in on a photo).
April 22, 2008 at 8:09 am
thanks a lot for this very useful tool
the “help menu” trick works well with *ANY* app on my mbpro. Together with spaces it saved my life working with Final Cut Pro.
I’d like to see more assignable gestures in future releases and I’d definitely buy this sofware once it becomes stable and more feature-rich. A suggestion: it would be nice if application specific gestures would ovverride the global ones, so if I have mapped a zoom in action in the global tab it performs a particular action for every application UNLESS the application I am using has a specific shortcut mapped for the zoom in action.
Again, thank you.
R.
April 23, 2008 at 1:16 pm
Thanks for this wonderful tool. I just installed it and it works great. However, I’d really love to see support for custom settings in the Finder (as an exception to Cocoa-only). In the “Global” settings I assigned the rotate gestures as well as swipe up/down to show the dashboard/desktop/… which I find pretty useful. It’d be great to have this functionality as well whilst having the Finder active.
April 26, 2008 at 1:21 am
I second Jason : three finger clicking woud be great. And also, 4 finger swipes.
Apart from that, this tool is just awesome, thanks a lot !
April 26, 2008 at 2:28 am
for the 4-finger swipe you would have to invent a new MBP
but nice idea
April 26, 2008 at 2:37 pm
what are the limitations of multitouch? there were patent applications that involve three finger zoom-in and zoom-out…can that be implemented?
April 26, 2008 at 9:18 pm
about how long do you think until the next version?
April 29, 2008 at 5:38 am
Hi, apparently regular macbooks don’t have the fancy gestures. I can’t install your program because under libary there isn’t input manager.
Help?
April 30, 2008 at 1:04 pm
It seems like the “help menu” trick works, along with any other opening. In firefox if I click to open a file, or several other actions, it works. The same is true in iTunes. It seems as if an action must be initiated in the app for MC to begin working. Once that action has occurred, MC works perfectly. Still an awesome app. It only can get better from here.
May 1, 2008 at 6:35 am
Lovely app!
Finally life approaches to be as it was when I had my fingerworks multitouch running under linux, swiping desktops around. (Sadly I have a sensor prob w/ my multitouch).
I want to report/ask 3 things:
1. As the writer “Ke” reported above, I have the situation, that I can swap spaces only from non-empty spaces (having 4). Is Spaces.app actually a Carbon app (can’t find it in activity monitor, not even with “All processes” setting), that would explain some hickups.
2. for Safari, zoom-in/zoom-out: I understand to make it work, you have to block the original zoom-in function. (And it does, have tried it, after removing the zoom-in/zoom-out MC binding, zooming worked again). Could you not “return” the hot-key to the standard-binding of zooming, after a delay time, where you had to check if there’s still a zoom-out coming? That way, one could have both, the original zoom-in AND a mapping of zoom-in/zoom-out?
3. After removing the zoom-in/zoom-out and some more playing with the Spaces bindings on global I also lost suddenly (while prefs.pane was closed) all MC bindings.
Great app, but I’m kind of afraid, that Mr. Jobs will not let you do this forever. :S Let’s see how it will go on.
Greetings from Bern in Switzerland,
Michael
PS.: System is new MBP
May 1, 2008 at 6:56 am
That’s funny!
I tried the “Help-MENU” trick for my Spaces issue. It works!
I usually have Mail in Space 1 and Safari on Space 2. As I said, swiping between 1 and 2 worked fine, but after swiping to Space 3 I wouldn’t get back. So what’s the default application in an empty Space? Finder! As people have reported probs with Finder before, not being Cocoa, I guess it makes utterly sense to have the same issue. So after I clicked on Help, i got back by swiping.
I guess it’s the same “load-the-bindings” issue of the other apps.
Greetings,
Michael
May 3, 2008 at 11:25 am
I seem to be getting some strange crashes lately.. not blaming this software.. But that last thing I’m getting in the console is the same “Console[384] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle ” error as previously mentioned above.
May 5, 2008 at 7:20 am
Seriously now.. This input manager is great, but its throwing up far to many errors in my logs.
I’d be cautious of this if I were you, until this is resolved.
May 7, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Jim you are right, this is really filling up the logs. It works brilliantly and I love it but I am a little concerned that I have had it under 20 mins and already have 30 lines of logs! Brilliant little app though and I will keep it until I can prove it is harming the system
(damn I sound like my users do now, nooooo)
May 8, 2008 at 12:22 am
Hi…I love the idea of this app as the multitouch gestures is such a innovative concept. However all the settings I setup only work for the “system preferences” pane, but no-where else.
e.g. I set up a global swipe down to command-h. Initially I thought it worked as I successfully hid the preference pane, but it didn’t work anywhere else. The same goes for any other combination I configured.
Is this a known behaviour for anyone else? ow can I fix this?
Marius
May 9, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Multitouch is terrific. I have grown to love my MBA gestures, and now I can add and customize many more.
I set swipe up to minimize and swipe down to close any application globally. Very intuitive and saves a lot of mouse/trackpad miles movements. Thanks for the great work!
May 10, 2008 at 11:54 am
Wow, this looks great!
However, I must be crazy, but I can’t get it to work. I have an MB Air.
For instance, I want a three finger swipe down to minimize a window to the dock. When I choose the “plus” on the right bottom side and choose “swipe down” in the pulldown menu, the default combination is command-H. But I can’t change this… the MB Air just gifs a bumplike sound..
What am I doing wrong?
May 10, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I’m having the same problem.
I can’t get this to work. I’m the new mac book pro and I have tried to get the 2 finger swipe left/right to change the taps and nothing happens. I tried other things but still nothing.
It would be great to figure this out to make it work.
Thanks.
May 11, 2008 at 9:22 am
Wow, this is such a great application that I almost can’t live without it on my MBA. However, I would suggest some more combo gestures which otherwise add the functionality of the multitouch and perfectize the app. The combo gestures that I would appreciate are as follows.
Swipe Up, Swipe Down
Swipe Down, Swipe Up
Swipe Left, Swipe Right
Swipe Right, Swipe Left
Moreover, some keystrokes like Command + Space are not valid on my MBA for unknown reason. Anyway, I highly recommand this application to everyone using multitouch and I am looking forward to seeing any further versions coming …….
May 11, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Nice work! You’ve really gotten a lot of recognition for this. Keep it up.
Thanks,
Mason
May 16, 2008 at 1:17 am
Great app!
Any chance it would work with fistmoves (when I am upset with my MBP) or with five-toe moves when I step on it?
Love the app!
May 16, 2008 at 9:09 pm
The thing I really need is a way of programming three fingers + click = third mouse button (for linux VMs and Terminal and all that). Are there hooks for that, or is it a lost cause?
Thanks. Great app.
May 19, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Few things.
First, I too agree that all gestures should just be listed rather than having to add them individually. This isn’t a big deal, but would allow a slightly better experience.
Second… label swipe right as Three-finger swipe right!!! (or at least put a note at the bottom saying as much.) I spent a lot of time reading the description, all the comments and even searching google trying to figure out how to tell it I wanted a three-finger right swipe instead of just a ‘right swipe’ before realizing they were the exact same thing! In hindsight it makes sense because a single finger swipe moves the cursor while a double is for scrolling, but it just wasn’t clear at first.
Third (and this is a biggie!!!) When using MultiClutch, the trackpad loses the ability to perform tap-and-drag functionality making it a non-starter for me. I was all excited that I got everything working the way I wanted only to discover I couldn’t move windows any longer without using the physical trackpad button. Am I doing something wrong? If not, then that’s something which really needs to be addressed since that’s my primary way of moving things around.
Next up: I also agree there are certain key combinations that you can’t enter thanks to the system intercepting them first and as such you need a better way to handle this. One way is similar to how SteerMouse handles this wherein they pop up a shortcut builder window where you type a key (or select a phrase like ‘{tab}’ from a pre-defined list of all non-alphanumeric keys), then you have checkmarks for the modifiers (Command, Alt, Control and Shift.) That way you don’t need to actually type the shortcut to enter it. In a perfect world, you’d enter the shortcut like you do now, but if that isn’t possible, have a small button next to the shortcut that pops up the aforementioned window. Simple and fast!
And finally, I’d love the ability to use a modifier with the swipe itself regardless of whether that modifier is used in the key combination which the swipe generates (e.g. CTRL-RIGHTSWIPE sends an ALT-X, not CTRL-ALT-X) That would be the cat’s meow!)
If that’s not possible, the next best thing would be the ability to change at least the keys that are sent, even if the modifier you press has to be sent as well (e.g. RIGHTSWIPE sends OPTION-Q but CTRL-RIGHTSWIPE sends CTRL-ALT-X. In this case, you actually defined ALT-X as the 2nd key combination, but since you are physically pressing the CTRL as part of the swipe, it has to be passed through as well, hence CTRL-ALT-X)
And if *that* isn’t possible at least simply passing the modifier through would give us more options. In the aforementioned example where RIGHTSWIPE sends OPTION-Q, CTRL-RIGHTSWIPE would send CTRL-OPTION-Q, etc. Not perfect, but would allow you to then use the Keyboard Shortcuts preferences pane to re-define things as needed to accommodate this approach.
Anyway, that’s my 2c worth (raised to $1.47 for economic inflation and the value of the dollar.)
Let me know what you all think!
Mark
P.S. I downloaded the source too. As a developer of 25 years who’s now getting into Mac/Xcode development, I figured this would be a great learning experience for me (better than ‘Hello World’, right?) and gives me an excuse to mess around with my Air too!
May 19, 2008 at 2:11 pm
BTW, for all users who get the ‘BUMP’ sound, that’s easy… just go to the Keyboard Shortcuts prefs pane and disable (uncheck) the key you want to assign in MC. Go back to MC, now you can enter it just fine. Last, go back to the Keyboard Shortcuts pefs pane and re-check it and viola! I did the exact same ‘Three-fingers-down minimizes an app’ choice and that’s how I did it.
M
May 20, 2008 at 2:52 am
Can i open dashboard with this?
How do i set the right key command?
May 20, 2008 at 3:27 am
For people with these errors:
“Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle”
Go to InputManagers directory and delete “MultiClutchInputManager.bundle” and “info” in the same directory. On my computer, those files were present in MultiClutchInputManager sub-directory anyway, so I deleted these duplicates which were causing the problem.
May 20, 2008 at 3:54 am
MarqueIV:
i think only the 3-finger swipes are really called “swipes”, but yes it would probably bring a bit more clearence…
the tab and drag interaction works well with me, with multiclutch installed…
cool would also be the ability to perform several keystrokes for one gesture, like CMD+S, CMD+W, for saving and closing a doc… therefore the manually add (chosing from a dropdown) would be easier to handle… but you could also make it with the listed gestures and for every a list of commands/keystrokes…
also single buttons should be possible… till now i asigned them by adding a modifier key that doesnt change the behavior of that one key
May 20, 2008 at 7:57 am
sometimes it works over finder, sometimes it doesn’t. eitherway, this little application makes my mac much greater and i am truly thankful to you, man.
May 22, 2008 at 12:02 pm
How do i uninstall it
May 24, 2008 at 7:33 am
Absolutely spectacular app. This is the most logical extension of the multitouch trackpad functionality I can imagine, and it’s implemented in a marvelously flexible, intuitive way. I have quickly become just as dependent on this as on Quicksilver. I can’t wait until I use someone else’s mac and catch myself swiping around like an idiot.
One interesting issue I’ve encountered. It seems that after initially setting up the shortcut associations I wanted in the prefpane, any further attempts at adding or editing are impossible. When I click to edit the shortcut, it becomes a pure text field, so to speak, and reacts to the keyboard the same way any text field would, i.e. attempts to execute every shortcut I type rather than recording it. (For instance, command-left arrow moves the cursor to the left side of the default command-h, an unrecognized shortcut elicits the standard “funk” noise, and a sequence of letters types those letters into the field.)
This initially occurred the first time I was playing around with multiclutch, and the only way I found to fix it was a complete uninstall/reinstall – prefpane, input manager, the works. I added what I wanted – all in one visit to the prefpane – quit, and went along my merry way. When I came back to add some more shortcuts, I again encountered the issue.
MacBook Pro, 10.5.2 – any other relevant information?
It’s a comparatively minor annoyance, anyway, and I’m still overwhelmed by the elegance and usefulness of the app. Infinite thanks.
May 29, 2008 at 8:01 am
I am having some trouble using Multiclutch to switch spaces in 10.5.3.
I can only get it to switch spaces with a swipe while an application is active (rather than the desktop) in space 1. If I am in any other space, swiping does nothing. I know that 10.5.3 including some fixes to spaces, so perhaps that is the reason?
May 29, 2008 at 8:04 am
Update: Actually, it only works if a third party app is active in *any* space. So Firefox, stickies–multiclutch will work from there. But if Finder or iTunes, for example, is the active window, then no space switching.
May 29, 2008 at 9:38 pm
this app is great! unfortunately, as already reported, it’s bounded to keyboard shortcut: if a menu command don’t have a shortcut or isn’t reproducible in localized layout it’s over
please think about we localized keboard users and find a solution
May 30, 2008 at 5:57 am
do you know, you can assign you own shortcuts to every menu-command in every program?!
can be found in system preferences->keyboard an mouse settings
June 3, 2008 at 5:13 pm
I’ve set up some custom gestures in Firefox and they worked perfectly. Since updating to 10.5.3 these gestures don’t work anymore, however all custom gestures in Apple programs work fine. Any idea what happened there? Did Apple prevent Multitouch from accessing non-Apple programs?
June 4, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Hi, I love the concept of this app, and i set it up to work with firefox, like rotate-refresh, and swipe right/left=forward/back, but it only works some of the times. I’m not sure what is wrong, can anyone help me fix this problem? I would love to be able to use this app, its awesome!!!!
Thanks!
June 4, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Oh I tried Mike’s trick of clicking on the help menu first, that works for firefox, Thanks Mike!!!
Does anyone know how to make this work in Photoshop CS3?
June 5, 2008 at 5:37 am
TKS v01lpe
now I’ve to report a strange behaviour
multiclutch seems not to work properly with macsoup (just with macsoup) O_o
June 10, 2008 at 10:13 am
Hello, I downloaded this and tried it out. And even though my Bank is after me for spending too much money, I have donated some money to you because this is just beautiful. Great work! Love these kinda programs.
June 11, 2008 at 12:24 pm
So what’s going on with this? Can we expect a new version anytime?
June 18, 2008 at 4:53 am
Please help, i accidently deleted the global menu, and even when i uninstall the pref pane and delete the files from inputmanagers, and reinstall, it’s still gone. How can I get it back?
Also, I was having the same problem as Alex. After editing the gestures for firefox I couldn’t edit any more. Thanks a lot!
June 18, 2008 at 8:36 am
Hi Imran,
Try deleting the preferences file located at:
~/Library/Preferences/com.wonderboots.MultiClutchBindings.plist
Hope that helps,
wc
June 18, 2008 at 11:51 am
Hi Will,
Does this app work on macbook pro with no new multi function trackpad ?
regards,
Luis
June 18, 2008 at 11:21 pm
I love this program! and now that Firefox 3 is Cocoa it allows the gestures to be mapped into the newest browser
June 19, 2008 at 12:12 am
hey thanks a lot, i got it back. It’s working perfectly now for the apps I’ve set it up with, but still having issues with setting up global functions, like trying to assign swipes with spaces. I can assign them but it doesn’t really work…
congrats on your gig with apple btw
June 21, 2008 at 7:50 pm
With some minor tweaks, works perfectly well on my Powerbook 3400 running MacOS 8.6.
June 21, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Can you help me understand how I can bind a gesture to a function key? I’d like to Zoom In to trigger spaces. Thanks!
June 22, 2008 at 1:20 am
Having a bit of trouble. First thing I did was set up some gestures for Firefox. Left it at that for a while. Then I came back and set up some gestures for spaces and expose functions (in the “Global” application). The expose/spaces gestures now only work when Firefox is in focus, as if they were designated for Firefox. I’ve cleared out all of my gestures and my application list, and added them all again (this time not adding the Firefox application gestures) and it still does the same thing. It seems as if my “Global” application has become linked with Firefox somehow.
June 22, 2008 at 1:36 am
Seems like Ray and I are having the same problem. All of my gestures work perfectly when System Preferences is in focus as well.
June 22, 2008 at 10:21 am
Hi Will,
this seems like a great app. I just goe my Mac Air and have installed FireFox 3 , but when I donload MultiClutch I just get a zip file and MultiClutch.prefPane , which I dropped into my Applications folder , but nothing happens when I click on it , what do I need to do to run the app ? What I am trying to do is to use the cool 3 finger swipe to scroll back a page for web browsing, thanks for your help
June 22, 2008 at 11:58 am
Paul, you should double click on the prefpane and a new prefpane should appear in your system preferences. Opening that should then get the install process going.
Great app btw, will mention in my blog.
June 23, 2008 at 3:58 pm
lol @ Mike
June 24, 2008 at 11:53 am
Hello all.
First, thank you for your wonderful tool, that must had been integrated in multitouch macs !
Anyway, I wonder why multiclutch worked with Firefox 3 beta 5 (for shortcut cmd + [ and ] to swip left & right), and didn’t work with above versions (like Firefox 3 final) ?
I’ve an AZERTY keyboard, and cmd + [ is cmd+alt+maj+( which worked for beta 5 but no more with v3 final.
Hope to hear some good news from you guys, thanks !
June 24, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I’m having trouble making this work at all. I tried setting it up with Spaces, but that only works some of the time, and even when it does I can’t use it correctly.
It doesn’t work with iTunes, either. Please help, this is an awesome application and I want it to work!
June 25, 2008 at 1:02 am
Hi,
Thanks for a great application!
I have one issue though, which is also mentioned by Ethan. I am trying to set up a gesture so that I can zoom out to the space selection screen. This works great if an app is in focus, but unfortunately not at all if the desktop is.
This becomes a problem if I am on a space which does not have any open applications, as would happen if I just closed one.
You mention that it works for all Cocoa apps. I assume that does not include the desktop, which makes sense I guess.
If this can´t be resolved then that is of course also ok, since it is a great app anyway.
June 26, 2008 at 6:48 am
Hey,
I’m having a weird problem where mappings disappear from the MultiClutchBindings.plist. I can’t get any settings for Firefox 3.0 to show in the file, except Supports_rotate and Supports_zoom (both false), and thus work even if I c&p them into place, and when I’d deleted an iTunes entry it cleared the entries for Terminal (again, except the Supports_* entries)!
June 26, 2008 at 7:17 am
Ah – I got it – I’d renamed the Firefox application to ‘Firefox 3.0′, and the discrepancy wasn’t handled by MultiClutch. So it’s fixable and I can probably work around it by using an alias or something.
Wee! This is going to be great!
June 27, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Hi,
I have mapped the spaces with the swipe gesture. So if i swipe left it goes to the left space. If i swipe right it goes to the right space and so on. But my problem is that when there is no program running in a particular space i.e. only finder is running, the global key command does not work
it works only if i have some applcation open like firefox etc… please help
June 27, 2008 at 11:44 pm
how about creating an ultra small application which stays hidden in all the spaces and runs silently. i believe from the previous comments that it is difficult for u to execute global commands without running any windows. so how about running a program silently in the background.
June 28, 2008 at 11:29 am
I was very pleased with this when I first started using it.
I assigned actions for use with firefox.
swiping to navigate, and rotate to refresh.
Unfortunately, when I woke up this morning, it had stopped working.
Any ideas?
June 28, 2008 at 10:48 pm
upgraded to FF3, and no more problems.
June 29, 2008 at 2:29 am
Can somebody tell me what the keycode for [ and ] is?
I have to edit the plist manual to get it to work…
July 1, 2008 at 1:59 am
Brilliant work!! I love it.
I hope you plan on getting a version for BootCamp working. I flick between Leopard and Vista a lot and it’d be great to have gestures working in applications I use on both systems, such as FireFox and Photoshop.
I can only imagine how cool this would be in Team Fortress 2 and CounterStrike…
Keep up the good work!!!
July 3, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Nicely done! Have just donated $25.
July 7, 2008 at 9:03 am
Thanks Martha!
July 7, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Hi Will,
This software is awesome. Thanks so much!
MultiClutch won’t work for me in iTunes; any clues?
July 10, 2008 at 12:08 am
Hi Will,
This software is great. I’ve got no problems so far (two weeks use). Thanks!
Just a suggestion: maybe you could it make easy to export and import configuration settings:
other applications may use the installer to set their multclutch gestures right, and we users may want to exchange configuration files for those that don’t.
Great work!
Mathijs
July 14, 2008 at 2:47 am
Cool plugin! Really helpful.
I just have one issue – the shortcuts doesn’t work with Adobe CS3 applications like Photoshop and Illustrator.
Any ideas on how to solve this, or suggestions on how to add multitouch to these apps?
July 14, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Nice app!
I am trying out you Clutch and I would like to be able to use it for spaces. I can only switch between spaces with a app in it. If no app is open is cannot stays in that space.
Any idea on that?
July 15, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Good work William! I use this all the time. Looking forward to future versions!
Jimmy
July 16, 2008 at 6:41 am
It’d be cool to have multiclutch have some default imports or bundles. Similar to how you can import bundles into textmate. It’d be nice if someone set up a firefox bundle that made zoom in be the zoom in and zoom out be zoom out keyboard command.
just an idea.
Great work, I’m just now getting to use this tool.
July 17, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Will,
Great idea! I don’t yet have a multi-touch trackpad, so I can’t test. But where did you figure out how to do this–say, which events to trap in the input manager? Trying to search Apple’s docs, but can’t find anything pertinent. Want to know, for example, how I would recognize gestures in my own app natively.
Thanks!
July 20, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Tip: Make a global shortcut. Swipe down to Commend-C (cut), swipe up to Command-V (paste). Awesome!
July 28, 2008 at 8:30 am
When I uninstall, is the library/inputmanagers folder supposed to be empty?
after the install, its contents were:
-info
-MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
-and a folder called multiclutchmanager including copies of the two previous items
i just moved all of them to the trash, but was I supposed to leave the info file? or was I supposed to delete the library/inputmanagers folder completely?
kind of a n00b and don’t want this to lead to problems down the road.
July 29, 2008 at 4:34 am
hey, i was trying to put firefox’ back and forward on a three finger swipe. The problem is, the actual shortcut ( CMD-[ and CMD-] ) is not even working as a keyboard shortcut (on a german keyboard layout), as the [ and ] keys have to be accessed by alt-5 and alt-6, so pressing CMD-ALT-5 and CMD-ALT-6 is something different… what can i do about that, except for switching to a US Keyboard?
August 4, 2008 at 8:38 am
til, you can use CMD+Left Arrow key or CMD+Right Arrow key, these do work fine on my german keyboard.
August 6, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Been using this for a month now with Firefox and some Adobe software. I find myself not using keyboard shortcuts anymore, and navigating the web with only the touch pad. Would love a few more gestures to play with.
I get frustrated when I use other computers which don’t have gesture support
Thanks for a great feature!
-Chris
August 8, 2008 at 5:31 pm
K seriously, any word on an update?
August 16, 2008 at 11:01 pm
hai there..
have some question here..
can it work on the macbook???
August 26, 2008 at 1:23 am
no – you need a laptop that can already do multitouch like zooming – this just lets you customise what each motion does
August 29, 2008 at 5:34 pm
i check this page everyday looking for some confirmation of a possible update. is there ever going to be an update? anything.
August 29, 2008 at 6:38 pm
For all you guys who have been trying to get Spaces to work with Multiclutch try using that help menu trick. Just make the Finder help menu drop down sometime after you start up and you should be able to swipe through your Spaces with no problem as long as the active app doesn’t use swipe for any function. In that case you just click on the desktop and then swipe. It would be perfect if Multiclutch could recognize when the mouse is over a window and only work for that window. Until then this way is working really well for me.
September 24, 2008 at 7:36 am
for some reason this is not working on my MBP (new one). None of the commands that i set up work… and ideas?
September 24, 2008 at 8:23 am
I love these “new” apps and devices. I have been using Multi-Touch for over 4 years and love that it is being made available to everyone soon.
I have been using the following:
Laptop:
http://www.fingerworks.com/MacNTouch_product.html
Desktop:
http://www.fingerworks.com/ST_product.html
Please bring some of these gestures to your app
LOVE the copy paste – works so fluidly.
FYI Apple bought this company in 2005 and “developed” the iPhone interface from it.
September 24, 2008 at 10:42 pm
For those having problems with the Finder not working: If you use the swipe up and down gesture for Exposé (as I am and it’s really great – swipe up for all apps and down for app windows), and you want the Finder to respond, just move the cursor off any Finder window before you do your swipe.
This way the Finder will even respond to the down-swipe to show its own windows. My guess is that this is because Leopard applies scroll gestures to whatever window is under the cursor, regardless of the app, and so this means that Carbon windows are actually floating in a sea of Cocoa.
As soon as you move off a Carbon window – even while you’re in a Carbon app – the OS takes over and the global gestures work.
This may explain the inconsistent results of some users.
September 26, 2008 at 5:58 am
I got my spaces working flawlessly, i added swipe left, right, up and down to Global and Spaces.app and used them for control up, down, left, right. Now i have spaces working great. when finder is open and i am on my desktop, i want to use the spaces view and i can’t rotate (my hand won’t do it well) so i tried to zoom functions. When on the desktop the icons start resizing and it won’t open the spaces view (my F8) any way to get this working. I also would suggest possible fuction for something like control swipe (when my computer does it, it zooms in and out on the mouse) Other than that, its a great app. one of the most useful i’ve found. Great job.
10.5.5 MBP 2.4Ghz 4gRAM
September 26, 2008 at 11:05 am
This software is soo great, I’m using it for textmate, terminal as well as safari
many thanks for the hard work!!
September 26, 2008 at 2:14 pm
This is phenomenal. I just got a MBP with a multitouch trackpad and this made it worth it—I normally won’t even use Input Managers. A++++ will be making a donation.
September 28, 2008 at 12:26 pm
Hi Will,
Amazing application. I have an English Keyboard, but I usually need to write in Spanish so I continuously change my keyboard layout. The issue with this is that every time I change the layout the MultiClutch app change the configuration of the gestures…, is there any possibility of avoiding this???
I really appreciate all the information you can give me, cuz’ I really like this app.
Thanks for you time…
September 29, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I’m using OSX 10.5.5
Firefox 3.03
I’ve set up Swipe Left and Swipe Right to be Forward and Backwards for Fireox.
I’ve quit and restarted Firefox twice.
Still not working. Gonna try a reboot right now but is there any reason why this wouldn’t be working for me?
September 29, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Reboot didn’t help. And just for the record I AM using a MBP with a multi-touch trackpad.
September 29, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Ok I used “Global” instead of specifying “Firefox”
Now it works.
Weird
But love that it works. (kinda)
September 29, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hey, I have an inelegant solution for being able to use mutliclutch even in Carbon apps, involving the use of another application.
If you download Butler, it allows you to assign keystrokes to any combination of input keys that you choose. So if you have the same arbitrary keystroke as the key command in multiclutch, it will perform the action in both carbon and cocoa apps.
Example: I want to swipe up to trigger expose, which is normally triggered by pressing F9.
1. I go to system preferences>expose&spaces and turn off F9’s association with expose.
(This allows me to press F9 when i’m later doing key assignments so that expose doesn’t interfere.)
2. I go to system preferences>multiclutch and assign “swipe up” to an arbitrary key combination, say option+command+E.
3. I go to Butler, and in the configuration menu, I make a “Keystroke”, with the hotkey being option+command+E, and the keystroke being F9.
4. I go to system preferences>expose&spaces and reactivate F9’s association with expose.
So butler acts as a middleman and allows you to use multiclutch in any menu you want.
September 29, 2008 at 9:14 pm
PS this also works with assigning control+arrow key to swiping left and right, if you want to switch between spaces. But since this will interfere with Safari’s default, you need to add safari to the apps list and assign left/right swipe to command + [ and command + ].
September 30, 2008 at 9:00 pm
You use a System Preference Pane to customize gestures with an interface similar to the shortcut-customization table in the Keyboard & Mouse pane. You can ‘bind’ gestures in a given Cocoa app (due to the nature of input managers, Carbon apps are not supported) or globally. In addition to zooming in and out, and rotaing in either direction, and the four swipe directions, I’ve been experimenting with ‘combo’ gestures. Right now, I’ve added the ‘zoom in, zoom out’ gesture (i.e., in one fluid motion) and vice-versa, with more perhaps to come if I find them to be intuitive and useful enough
October 3, 2008 at 5:58 pm
You really need to state that you need to use Global and it effects ALL applications. No applications are working on 10.5.4 unless I use the global option. This is a cool idea, but I want to have separate actions for each app, not ONE action for ALL apps.
Keep it up. It’s coming along nicely!
October 5, 2008 at 6:40 am
Oscar, you can use the plus button bottom left to add different apps that the gestures apply too. I know the interface isn’t very intuitive, but most apps are supported seperately by multiclutch.
October 8, 2008 at 6:14 am
I’m having trouble in the Preference Pane trying to assign a keystroke.
When I create a new gesture/command binding hitting + and I select the command to change it sometimes it works and recognizes the keystroke, but sometimes instead it does not and turns into a standard editing cursor, e.g. if I hit CMD-LeftCursor instead of getting the symbols for this keystroke I get the curor moving to the left. I can then not bind this gesture to anything!
Anyone with the same problem?
October 15, 2008 at 7:20 am
Are there plans, with multiclutch, to support the four finger gestures found in this recent Macbook upgrade?
October 15, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Lukas,
I’m really excited about the new Macbook upgrades and will be looking into supporting the new gestures as soon as they release the software update.
wc.
October 16, 2008 at 8:10 am
Eagerly awaiting four finger Multiclutch! Thanks so much WC.
Van
October 16, 2008 at 12:33 pm
I just recently hit the “normal textbox” bug where the textbox for a combo doesn’t capture key combos, only text.
I’ve tried editing the plist file, I even managed to find a list of keycodes. I setup the plist for an app manually. Unfortunately, some key combos are registered as if the last two keys were part of an asian or possibly wingdings character and the character *may* change between openings of the preference pane. The same key combo I’m setting up exists in another app’s gesture list and shows up correctly. As a nasty side effect, MultiClutch sends command-asian character instead of command-shift-right (just an example) to the app. The same combo acts correctly in another app.
Hope this helps tracking down these bugs,
Kevin
October 17, 2008 at 2:50 pm
You’ve done brilliantly here whenderson, I can see you walking around the cupertino campus in no time!
I love the potential of this app. but can’t benefit because basic setup is too hard for me. I try to make swipe left to be “Command-Tab”, but your software doesn’t receive the command because the system grabs the key sequence.
So, here’s how to set it up to do the cool things like bring up task switcher, dashboard and spotlight.
1. Go into system Preferences, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, uncheck the keyboard shortcut that you want to assign to a gesture.
2. go to the multiclutch preference pane and enter the function, like Command Space for the spotlight.
3. Voila, it works, I find logging out and in again, makes everything function properly
October 17, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Hi Will,
This is a great program, however, the Expose gesture when set up, only works when the system preferences window is the focus. I searched this thread for a fix, but couldn’t find anything…
any advice?
Thanks so much,
Bryan
October 17, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Actually, now I’ve been noticing that it works with Safari and Documents windows, does not work with iTunes in focus and sparingly works with my “applications” and “download” windows in focus (working one minute, not working the next)
Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Bryan
October 18, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Will an update be coming out for the new macbook 3 and 4 finger swipes?
October 19, 2008 at 5:10 am
Eagerly awaiting an update for the new macbook models! I have some ideas of my own as to what the new gestures should do. Hope you are able to implement them soon!
October 19, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Has anyone tried to use the current version with the new Macbooks or Macbook Pros?
October 21, 2008 at 12:00 pm
it works, picking up three-fingered gestures. I’m hitting this weird bug, though, possibly related to the ‘normal textbox’ bug, where it replaces any keyboard shortcut with the letter A. Reinstalling, it works normally for a while, but past a certain point every shortcut is “A”. Old gestures still work.
October 21, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Great stuff!!
Now, if you could make my ‘old’ MacBook Pro TouchPad work like one of the new MultiTouch ones, then we’re talkin’!
October 21, 2008 at 10:23 pm
@Drnkusv: I’ve been using this on a new MBP for a few days now, and it’s amazing. Word of this app really needs to get around.
October 22, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Awesome idea, thanks. But if I assign the swipes to what my Spaces keys are (control-arrow) it works once, then never again. I’m on a new brick macbook. thanks
October 23, 2008 at 6:26 am
nice work!
U remember those guy’s from delicious library got the award for best mac osx leopard 2007? This year it has to be yours!
October 23, 2008 at 10:16 am
Any chance 4 finger gestures will be coming to the old MBP? Do 4 finger gestures rely on new hardware, or are they software based (and therefore able to be implemented on older MBP)?
October 24, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Awesome app. I’m now glad I can swipe forward and back in Firefox. There is one problem though. I have the most recent version and found that when I run the adobe update for cs3 via the terminal, long story. I end up getting the following error pop up:
PatcherApplication[3580:913] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
I figure it’s safe to assume this has something to do with MultiClutch since, well that is the name of the bundle. Going to try deleting the bundle and info file as suggested earlier.
October 28, 2008 at 6:01 am
my system log was filling up with the ERROR:
Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
as well. I deleted the /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle as well as the /Library/InputManagers/Info as instructed above and it has been working so far. I’ve only reboot once since, but no more errors. sweet app by the way.
October 28, 2008 at 9:57 am
Loving three-fingers for swiping between spaces – the space-switching animation is very jerky when triggered by multi-clutch though. Ctrl+arrows still gives very smooth animation.
October 29, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Hey there Will
is there anyway to do a global binding to activate expose?
how can I uninstall this app? just in case my MBP starts freaking out? nice app by the way
thanks
MB
October 30, 2008 at 5:07 am
What about 2 finger swipe?
Thanx for an awesome app!
AluBook
November 1, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Not sure if anybody’s already posted this, but I saw some other people were having the same problem as I was, and I seem to have found a fix.
The problem: Try to create a new binding in Multiclutch, and the edit box where you map the keyboard shortcut just acts like a normal text box, instead of capturing the key combo.
Solution (for me, at least): I use Quicksilver, and was launching the Multiclutch pref pane directly. But if I instead launch System Preferences first, and open Multiclutch config from there, it seems to work correctly.
November 4, 2008 at 2:00 am
ah so lovely app.
I was thinking about something like that and somehow I found this one…
perfect for my mail and firefox
November 4, 2008 at 12:26 pm
this is great, i’m a mac n00b and a windows consultant, this is the sort of thing that made me convert – the awesome community apps.
any chance of a binding for three-finger or four-finger click? i’d love this for opening links in new tabs in FF for example.
Obviously some pretty icons for each type of binding could be cool, email me if you want to do this and need someone to do the art!
November 4, 2008 at 1:00 pm
AWESOME. You rule, Henderson.
November 5, 2008 at 7:55 am
Thanks for this fantastic programm, Will, but I would to ask you a few question. Will the four-fingers gestures implemente in the early-2008 MacBook Pro?
How can I use a gesture as cmd-tab? (if I try to use tab, it doesn’t work in multiclutch).
Thanks a lot
November 6, 2008 at 11:11 am
I’d like the ability to assign keystrokes that *don’t* use the command key. Like getting Pinch/Stretch to zoom in and out on Google Earth that just requires the + and – keys, not Command
November 8, 2008 at 7:36 am
How are people getting the 3swipe up to pause and play iTunes globally???
November 9, 2008 at 6:38 pm
Any news on the 4-finger support?
November 13, 2008 at 5:50 pm
extremely useful program, thanks a lot
I’d be really interested in 4-finger swipes too…
November 14, 2008 at 7:44 am
4-finger swipe would be great if it coudl be changed to move between spaces
p.s. great work – this app is splendid!
November 14, 2008 at 7:47 am
Thanks for this. It has greatly improved my user experience on the Mac.
November 14, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Hi…. thank you for the app; I love it. However, so far I am having trouble for it to work for Spaces. As others have pointed out, it doesn’t work if there is not a Cocoa app running in a particular space. I tried using Butler like others have suggested, but it’s still not working. Maybe I’m not using Butler correctly? Can someone help me out here and leave a more detailed instruction? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
November 15, 2008 at 12:35 pm
THANK YOU!!! This changes the way I use my computer by officially making it a pain to take my hand off the track pad
.
Also, really waiting for 4 finger swipes.
November 17, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Great app, thank you!
Just to verify i’m not going nuts, did your installation add something called “Growl” to the System Preferences in addition to MultiClutch?
November 17, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Thanks for the great program Will. I’m addicted to it and miss it much when I’m using my wife’s ibook! Have you seen this story on macrumors (see below)? Seems someone has found a workaround to get the four fingers working on early 2008 MBP’s. A little scary for me to follow this procedure, but I thought it might be of help to you in making the 4 finger swipes part of multi-clutch (maybe even 5/6 finger!?!). It seems that multi-touch is the way to go. The more that pioneers like you help push it, the sooner it will be part of the computer interface as we know it.
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/14/original-macbook-air-capable-of-4-finger-gestures-through-software-update/
November 17, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Very nice. Just throwing in my support for mapping a 3 (or even 4) finger tap. 3-finger tap -> Command-click would be great for opening browser links in new tabs. Three-finger zoom-in and zoom-out gestures would also be great.
November 18, 2008 at 12:19 am
Hi William,
I’m using the former version of the MBP which does not have the Multi-Touch feature.
But i love it and i want. Is there anyway i can have without having to replace my MBP with new one.
Thanks,
Saran.
November 18, 2008 at 12:52 pm
Hey Saran, you need to have the Multitouch Hardware. You need to buy a early 08 or late 08 MBP.
November 18, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I love this app. Thanks for sharing
I was very dissapointed I couldn’t do this with my new macbook out of the box.
November 22, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Great application, thankyou very much!
For those of you wanting to bind swipes to tab switching in Firefox and Adium and directory traversing in Finder, I suggest simply globally binding swipe left to ctrl+shift+tab and swipe right to ctrl+tab. Works a treat!
November 24, 2008 at 6:45 pm
I have lost my presets, again! I have installed this twice – I love it, but dammit, suddenly all the settings just go away. I added a few additions, and boom – a few minutes later, after a week of using it and the dozen’s of shortcuts I made were gone. What gives?
November 24, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Awesome swipe up/down for dashboard only works with system preferences on OR with FIREFOX on. Must be b/c i set some gestures in firefox too. Anyway to set ‘finder only’ gestures through Multiclutch? looking forward to updates! thanks
November 25, 2008 at 4:33 am
Hi,
I love this app but same problem than autodeepfry says, it only work with system preferences on or buy having a window clicked. but not with the finder. I use it for spaces, dashboard and exposé.
I’d be really interested in 4-finger swipes too. is it possible on the early 2008 MacBook pro 4.1
Follow on! great work.
November 25, 2008 at 4:38 am
Someone can answer the Yonan point below:
Hi…. thank you for the app; I love it. However, so far I am having trouble for it to work for Spaces. As others have pointed out, it doesn’t work if there is not a Cocoa app running in a particular space. I tried using Butler like others have suggested, but it’s still not working. Maybe I’m not using Butler correctly? Can someone help me out here and leave a more detailed instruction? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
November 26, 2008 at 6:10 am
turns out my setting for the dashboard swipe also works with packaged osx software, vlc, who knows what else
December 1, 2008 at 3:27 am
please check out this post on the macrumors forum …
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=603308
a couple of people had multiclutch working in iTunes (which is carbon)
hope this information is of some value and you can use it to make multiclutch work in carbon apps as well like itunes and finder (and not just cocoa apps)
December 1, 2008 at 7:58 am
Hi,
i’m using a international keyboard (german). I have problems to assign keys that need the FN key. Is there any turnaround?
thx
Gerald
December 1, 2008 at 8:19 pm
First, I am impressed by this app. Thanks, whender.
I have a suggestion for the further extension. I am a big fan of tab browsing and kinda miss the middle click button that opens a link in a new tab. Yes, Com-click does the same work, but I am too lazy to put another hand on the board…
Is there a way I can do this with one hand, such as three finger click? It will be extremely convenient to hardcore web surfers like me. Thx.
December 2, 2008 at 12:34 am
Good idea Clempiric.
December 2, 2008 at 8:59 pm
Great work! Can’t wait for four-finger gesures.
December 3, 2008 at 8:06 am
Is there any way to map something to a third mouse button click? This is really useful for pasting in unix apps, and for firefox. It would be really sweet if this was done by a 3 finger click, but I would be perfectly happy if I could bind it to a two finger click (since I have a new macbook, and I can map the lower right hand corner to a right mouse click).
Thanks,
w0den
December 5, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Hey
Love the app for my new macbook. I cant get it to do rotate right for reload (CMD-R) in Safari. Any ideas?
December 6, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Hey, just want to say how much i love this app and i hope you can keep perfecting it since it is in beta. it works beautifully for me, although i only use it for firefox, so im not sure if there is anything really wrong with it yet. Its great. Thank you for passing it on to us and all the best. take care.
December 7, 2008 at 12:56 pm
I keep gettig this in my logs:
Dec 7 15:53:35 dyer Console[1251]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Dec 7 15:54:19 dyer Safari[1263]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
12/7/08 3:23:32 PM firefox-bin[827] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
December 9, 2008 at 9:30 am
Hi, I’m using MC with the newer MB, It’s great, and I hope to see support for more of the old iGesture (Fingerworks) gestures soon.
1. Somehow, I was sometimes able to get past the issue of entering and capturing a key command combination that doesn’t affect the MultiClutch pref pane itself. I just tried a few times, rebooted, and it eventually worked.
2. Is there a way to enter the [ESC] key or equivalent as a key command? I want to make one of the rotate gestures into escape. I use that gesture/command often with my Fingerworks devices.
rock on.
December 9, 2008 at 9:35 am
P.S.
These are my current fav gestures.
zoom out = copy (try it. it’s intuitive.)
zoom in = paste
rotate right = close window (or ESC if possible)
rotate left = open
swipe right = forward
swipe left = your mom
December 9, 2008 at 8:19 pm
I think these are bug.
1. Can’t assign key combination when the combination is in Keyboard Shortcut.
I wanted to assign Swipe Up to Expose, so I added an item Swipe Up and try to press the shortcut.
But it does not go into the input box but the expose works.
I can assign that by changing Keyboard Shortcut first -> Assign swipe -> Change Keyboard shourtcut back.
2. Can’t assign key in Keyboard Shortcut in standard preference.
After I input some shortcut in Multiclutch, I should quit system preference application and rerun to change keyboard shortcut in standard keyboard/mouse preference.
Are these known issue?
I’m using MacBook Air 1st Generation with MacOSX 10.5.5
December 10, 2008 at 11:25 am
I third(fourth?) the 3 finger tap for middle click. I already have an amazing setup with Multiclutch and it would make it that much better.
Does anyone know of something I could use in the meantime? I’m thinking I’m going to use a bit of applescript, this other program I found that will “click” the mouse, and quicksilver to attempt this. It’s not an ideal solution, but I think it will work.
December 10, 2008 at 12:42 pm
… Didn’t work
cliclick only does *control* click, not command click
December 10, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Kevin, if you figure out how to do that, please post it… I tried some similar stuff failed.
December 10, 2008 at 11:11 pm
Bingo!!
I’ve posted the code at my blog. Read it and enjoy!
blog.r0ssar00.com
December 15, 2008 at 12:38 am
Hi. Is there a way to (zoom out = copy / zoom in = paste) without affecting iphoto zoom option?
December 15, 2008 at 8:22 am
check blog.r0ssar00.com for a hack using quicksilver(or any app that has global keyboard shortcuts and will run an app from a shortcut) that sends command-click to an app.
December 15, 2008 at 10:23 pm
like bob the dude posts above, multiclutch seems to lose all its settings periodically. this makes the app totally frustrating to use, since I have to keep re-entering all the gestures over again every so often. is there a solution for this? and what triggers it? any help would be appreciated. thanks.
December 16, 2008 at 12:47 am
i noticed that my latest comment wasn’t approved. i’m guessing it’s because i’m dropping a reference to my blog again.
i know i’m shamelessly promoting my blog(ad-free i might add), but i’m not doing it for exposure(i know that sounds clichéd), i’ve got a legitimate hack available for firefox/safari users.
don’t approve this comment, it’s just a bit of an explanation(for you) to why i pushed my blog after the quick update about three-finger taps.
December 16, 2008 at 1:35 am
can anyone confirm if this works with the latest osx update to 10.5.6?
December 16, 2008 at 10:48 am
i’ve found that my global gesture for command-w(zoom out) and my global gesture for maximize(zoom in) doesn’t work in Finder
i’ve found that only Finder doesn’t work anymore(through trial and error), even when i’ve got it in the multiclutch prefpane.
it’s going to get rather annoying considering i’ve integrated zoom-out into my workflow so heavily.
December 16, 2008 at 3:59 pm
forget everything i just wrote. it’s working now!
December 17, 2008 at 7:32 am
multiclutch still works with 10.5.6
suggestion: it would be sooo great, if multiclutch would also support 4 finger gestures. just using them for exposé and taskswitching is a waste of potential
December 17, 2008 at 9:58 am
hanZ, unfortunately, I don’t see that working because the undocumented gesture api doesn’t recognize 4 finger gestures(or 3 finger taps).
there’s one method in the gesture api for swipes and one method for the start of *any* gesture.
// for swipes
-(void)swipeWithEvent:(NSEvent *)anEvent
{
// do something
}
// for anything
-(void)beginGestureWithEvent:(NSEvent *)anEvent
{
// do something
}
the problem is neither swipeWithEvent nor beginGestureWithEvent recognize a 4 finger swipe. if anything, beginGestureWithEvent would recognize it, but it doesn’t.
also, for 3 finger taps, i figured otherMouseDown would register it, but no dice.
the end result: no 4 finger swipes and no 3 finger taps at least until the api is updated.
December 22, 2008 at 5:43 am
Mines stuck in an install loop
keeps asking for my admin password, and then just goes right back to that. any ideas?
December 22, 2008 at 9:05 am
Very nice application; I’ve found it to be quite useful.
Would it be possible to add support for mapping triple-tap (tap with three fingers) to a key combination plus a single tap? It would make it possible to use the trackpad to open links in new tabs when browsing, which is one of the few things that I can’t do without multiple clicks or using the keyboard.
I know the MultiTouch pad on the newest MacBooks to date can recognize a triple-tap because, when I’m booted into Windows, it seems to interpret triple-tap as right-click rather than double-tap (which does the same thing as single-tap). I don’t know if support for recognizing this is built into the OSX framework, though.
Thanks for your work on MultiTouch!
~Jonathan
December 22, 2008 at 10:04 am
It is slightly frustrating that when inputting Key Commands, Multiclutch doesn’t recognise the command button or the alt button.
I use command+(the right arrow) for changing between spaces: Multitouch will not recognise this command.
Any idea for a fix?
Thanks.
December 22, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Please forgive me: I have sorted it out.
Here is another vote for four finger support.
Thanks.
December 22, 2008 at 2:18 pm
Jonathan, I made an earlier post about 3 finger taps but for some reason, it wasn’t “approved” unlike all of my other posts. I’ve looked at the documentation available to the writer of MultiClutch and there is no way. It’s an undocumented A P I(seems the blog blocks any post with any mention of programming) and someone has documented it. They wrote a test program which I used to attempt a 3 finger tap and it didn’t register.
There might be more functions in the new MacBook’s A P I updates(if there are any). I haven’t seen anything pop up about it thought.
December 25, 2008 at 6:49 pm
Its been two months now, I could NOT LIVE WITHOUT DASHBOARD UP/DOWN SWIPE!!!! Eventually the finder recognized it. While some microsoft and non-native programs (wenlin?) don’t take this three finger swipe, it loads for everything else, after restarts, all the time. YES
Can ya all really live without your dictionary/thesaurus, notepad, and the LoLCats widget at the swipe of your fingers?
..well, I use Dashboard for that and many other things. Anyways, sweetness..
January 2, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I think this app is great. I appreciate the input that went into it! Great work.
Are you working on anything four-fingered for the future?
Cheers
January 4, 2009 at 2:49 pm
For people who want to open new tabs with a three-finger tap/click:
At the moment I’ve been using Firegestures, an addon for firefox. It’s not Ideal, but if you do a two-finger click and swipe down over a link it opens the link in a new tab in firefox. Its just a work around until apple updates their gesture API.
Thanks so much for your work Will!
January 6, 2009 at 11:40 am
Superb work man!
Any approx. times on the 4 finger gestures?
Spaces is a bitch without them
January 6, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Hey this program is great!! except I wanted to work it with spaces but I cant use key commands that involve the function keys (f8, f9…) can that be added?
thanks
January 11, 2009 at 1:34 pm
The interface for mapping keys is difficult to use, ex: if i want to bind CMD-[ it is impossible right now since the global finder will catch it.
You should modify the interface to be more like the expose key binding.
January 11, 2009 at 8:59 pm
The link provided doesn’t work for me. It wants me to fill in a password i do not have. When I click cancel, a download dialog indeed starts, but the file is only some bytes in size (i know this file is supposed to be in kbs) and the zip can not be extracted.
January 15, 2009 at 2:50 pm
i definitely agree with the the addition of four fingers! if you tell me where in the code you deal with the different swipes, i might be able to take a look at it!
thanks so much for this program!
cheers
January 21, 2009 at 5:54 pm
When I try to download this I get a popup asking for a username and password. In Firefox and Safari if I click cancel it downloads a corrupted zip archive, and Opera doesn’t try to download anything. Are there any other mirrors for this, or what’s the username and password?
Thanks.
January 22, 2009 at 4:41 am
Hey, it seems like a great little app, but just one problem. When I wanted to set the swipe left and right to change spaces, I first had to deactivate the command i have for changing spaces (cntl+arrow keys) to activate the command in multiclutch. once I did this I reactivated the regular spaces command, and it worked fine. The only problem with that is that if I switch to space, I have to have an app open in that space to move out of that space using the command I set in multiclutch. Maybe if I deactivate the regular spaces command all together. Also, this is kind of like the spaces thing, I want to set up swipe to be dashboard, btu if I try inputting the dashboard command, it activates dashboard. I was wondering if there is a way to fix this.
Thanks for the program!
January 29, 2009 at 4:50 am
For the Finder problem, as already mentioned here, it’s not a Carbon problem, but the fact that Finder itself maps the swipes (right/left) to a finder window’s history back and forth buttons.
So it works if the mouse pointer is outside any window when you start swiping and it doesn’t when your inside a window.
I am using Multiclutch just for switching spaces. Didn’t figure out, why it sometimes get’s stuck in a seemingly empty space. Probably Finder has some window active in another space then and happily triggers it’s history buttons while I’m looking at an empty space and keep thinning my touchpad.
Is there a way to get the input manager (or any hidden helper app) to grab the gestures BEFORE the Finder app gets them, or at least in addition? Will?
February 5, 2009 at 10:01 am
Huzzah!
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/05/snow-leopard-to-include-corelocation-and-multi-touch-apis/
Now we can get Triple Tap?
February 5, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I too set it up with a 3-finger swipe to change spaces. I think that it only works if there is an app open in the space you are switching from. I found that if I have Adium open and set to be in all spaces, it always works. Hope that helps!
February 5, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Have you considered adding functionality for disabling all gestures not defined in Multiclutch for a given list of applications?
Scott Kelby (the Photoshop training guy) is begging Apple for a way to disable gestures due to the insanity they cause with Photoshop and InDesign. I did a bit of looking but I wasn’t able to find anything out there that can do this. Your app is the only one I’ve found so far that affects gestures.
See “Apple, I’m Begging You!” at http://www.scottkelby.com/blog/2009/archives/3347 for some hint of what I’m talking about.
February 6, 2009 at 8:13 am
Does Apple allow a way to define your own gestures? It occurred to me that there is nothing for a five point touch (or multi-point rotate) or for touches in specific areas, eg. the upper corners, something that would allow for a greater number of trackpad commands?
Haven’t had a chance to really dig in to your app, but it’s exactly what i was hoping to find to enhance my multi-touching love making… thanks!
February 8, 2009 at 9:58 am
I just wanted to thank you for this great little program. I am a new mac user and am just getting started with a MacBook Pro. I was very disappointed when I found that Safari didn’t have the features that I liked on Firefox but Firefox didn’t support the gestures that I really liked on Safari. Now, thanks to Multitouch, I can swipe and magnify on Firefox to my heart’s content. Thank you.
February 11, 2009 at 5:26 pm
so….. anyone able to get the four finger swipes customizeable yet? i’ve looked everywhere and no one has been able to do it yet?
February 11, 2009 at 7:41 pm
yet another push for the four finger gestures. Keep up the great work Will, and congrats on your recent hire over at apple.
February 13, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Rejoice! Snow Leopard may include four-finger gesture customization.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/02/13/customizable-4-finger-gestures-planned-by-apple/
February 14, 2009 at 8:55 am
A simple workaround of the problem multiclutch not working in carbon apps like itunes and finder is to open the help files of those apps. You can minimize them so you won’t be bothered with after you’ve started them.
February 14, 2009 at 6:54 pm
does not work on tiger 10.4.11
February 15, 2009 at 2:11 pm
How do I properly uninstall? I deleted the pref but when I run a program from termnial I still see some residuals:
XX-MBP:~ xx$ 2009-02-15 14:08:35.613 firefox-bin[269:10b] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
February 15, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Great app, thanks.
Problem though: I’ve lost the ability to add new gestures to any application: when I try to change the key command from the default “⌘H” to anything else, it becomes “A” no matter what I do…
February 17, 2009 at 2:38 pm
yeah.
I’ve had that glitch too, but it doesn’t occur at all times.
sometimes it would accept ‘COMMAND’+{variable} but not a simple arrow (→) gesture.
yet, only has happened thrice.
also,
sometimes all of the settings are cleared during my use of the computer when the gestures weren’t even in use concurrently;
…after a while i would realize the gestures were no longer operating,
go in and check the preference pane. all operators and things were still therein; immaculate.
…so I’d hit “Show All” just to assure that it would execute/register the commands.
then go and test it and still no response.
when i return to the pane, all settings are removed and blank. functions are gone.
strange.
i just took snapshots of the pane w/ all the settings via Grab as a backup of sorts.
* * *
lastly, the “zoom in” “zoom out” functions are backwards.
but that was nor ever would be a problem so long as it’s known.
* *
considering al of this, I too am curious as to how to remove any and all remnants (e.g. me accidentally having installed multiple copies multiclutch.prefpane2,3,4,etc. once) of Multiclutch so that i may reinstall it as from a clean slate.
* * * * * * * *
All that aside, Cheers to your excellence in work!
thank you so very much.
This app makes the Trackpad’s multitouch access the defining feature.
I honestly could not function without this.
>i literally had refused and never invested in having my own laptop due to the cursor work until the long awaited day i found the Multiclutch.
and it has made me complete.
There is no sufficient macbook without multiclutch at work.
thank you.
…
Mazal tov!
~chuckdub.
February 20, 2009 at 2:56 pm
great app
it makes the multitouch trackpad even better, I don’t have to use a mouse anymore
thank you so much..
February 24, 2009 at 10:13 am
Yet another user here who just gets a password input thing when I try the download link, and can’t get this program.
The last few people with this problem were just ignored
March 2, 2009 at 10:02 pm
I love the app! I run into a problem, i have right and left set as forward and back in Firefox but when Spaces is enabled swipe left overrides firefox and switchs spaces! Its quite frustrating and I cant seem to figure out how to have just have cmd and arrow keys to change in Spaces and swiping to move in Firefox…. Annnny help would be sooo greatly appreciated I’m sure its quite simple!
March 4, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I’ve read a lot of comments asking for 3 finger taps and 4 finger swipes and even though I didn’t develop MultiClutch, I *can* tell you that with the current APIs it’s just *not possible*. I’ve posted twice about this(search the page for Kevin). Believe me, I want it as badly as you guys do and I even wrote a quick test program to check whether it would work or not.
March 5, 2009 at 10:00 am
I have the previous model macbook pro, which recognizes three finger swipes why won’t this program work for it?
March 5, 2009 at 7:47 pm
I downloaded it and it does work after all
Is there a way to set it to adjust volume?
I can’t figure out a way to input the keyboard shortcuts for adjusting the volume.
March 6, 2009 at 5:32 am
Is there any chance for a newer version of this? Unfortunately my Acrobat doesn’t work with it… :-/
Or does anyone has an issue?
March 7, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Great app! Works fine on my MacBook (not Air or Pro). Really gives multitouch the little extra it needed! No commands works in Finder, though, but all the other programs I’ve tested (not so many btw). Maybe this is because i only have MacBook.
Anyway, this app gives a whole new meaning to multitouch gestures
March 11, 2009 at 9:49 am
Kevin, are you using a new Air or Pro with the 3-finger tap and 4-swipe capabilities or have you updated your preference pane on an old Air to allow it?
March 19, 2009 at 4:10 am
I’d like to assign cmd-m (minimize) to swipe down but when I try to input it it minimizes the window. Cmd-m is not listed in the keyboard shortcut list, so I can’t disable it.
March 19, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Hi,
Where are the preference pane settings stored? I would like to know so I can back the file up.
Also, how do you uninstall it completely? It installs something else too during installation.
Thanks,
Alex
March 26, 2009 at 6:15 am
Hey guys … an applecare specialist suggested I could use this ap to disable the gestures. Is it possible to supplant the gestures with key commands or does will it only duplicate?
Thanks for the help …
(I can’t stand the new trackpad … I’m ready to send my new mac back … every time I touch the thing it’s resizing the font size of what I’m looking at or opening expose. And apple has inexplicably NOT provided a way to disable the system)
DB
March 26, 2009 at 9:31 am
For those of you unable to add new commands (you just get an A coming up rather than the gesture you attempt to add) I found that I get this when I launch MultiClutch from Spotlight.
So if you just click on the System Preferences in the Dock and go to MultiClutch that way, you should have no problems.
March 28, 2009 at 11:17 am
Kevin Harris,
I have spaces enabled and set the swipe left and right to go back and forward in Firefox as well. However, I have not experience the problem you are having.
In the Multiclutch pref, I have specifically set the application Firefox to have the swipe left/right and bind to command+[ or command+] respectively. Perhaps you bound the swipes to “Global” and as a result gives you that undesirable result?
March 31, 2009 at 3:34 am
Would be cool if you could configure swipe right as apple tab and swipe left as apple shift tab so you could cycle through your apps. Would be very interested if you manage to do this
March 31, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Lovely app. As others have mentioned it’d be great for more complex gesture creation but honestly, I can’t complain – it works great!
Thanks again for making this wonderful app.
Peace,
Brennan
April 1, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Hi, i love this app, i’ve been using it for a while, however just lately i’ve run into some trouble since i installed iwork 09.
the undo function would stop working after pages had been running for a short time, it wouldn’t matter if i used a keyboard shortcut, multiclutch gesture (left swipe) or went to the menu, everything was non-responsive. restarting pages would correct the problem, but only for a little while. this also seemed to happen in numbers, but not as often (or i probably didn’t notice it as much).
removing the multiclutch gesture for undo didn’t help, but removing all iwork specific gestures fixed the problem. global gestures aren’t an issue (e.g. i have swipe up set to cmd-s), but i would love to go back to using application specific gestures in iworks… there’s so much i could do!
anyway, not sure if the problem is just on my end, i’m going to try reinstalling multiclutch and seeing if that helps.
thanks,
Frances
April 2, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I can haz update?
April 3, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Hi there.. We currently use this as the pinch to zoom and rotate gestures were driving us crazy on our new MBP.
The only problem is we dont want to activate a command at all we just want to disable certain gestures. However this software insists we choose a key command.
Could you provide the option of “no action” as well as the current options. Then it could be used to disable the disliked apple gestures that drive us crazy.
Thank you
Regards
Edward
April 8, 2009 at 2:12 pm
How do i uninstall the preference panel? I have a mac book pro with multitouch pad but is not the newest one and as i have read Multiclucth only works with the latest ones.
April 10, 2009 at 5:58 am
Great App. You saved my sanity with my new unibody mac, the new zoom “feature” in Safari 4 was driving me nuts – now I can finally disable it.
Feature Request: any chance you can add an option to bind a gesture. Essentially I would like to effectively disable most of the gestures.
thanks!
April 10, 2009 at 5:59 am
oops. bind an gesture to nothing or null key
April 12, 2009 at 2:23 pm
Has this project been abandoned? It’s been out for over a year and there hasn’t been any sign of an update…it doesn’t work with half the apps on my computer unless I open the help window, and it doesn’t work with a number of hotkeys, like the very popular command+tab. And what about four-finger gestures?
A lot of problems still need to be worked out.
April 13, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Hello,
Anyone able to get gestures to work with Acrobat Pro 9?
April 14, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Bump… wait that doesn’t work here.
April 17, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Ok a few things need to be explained to people here.
FIRST. The four finder gestures. All you idiots out there. Four finger gestures are system wide mapping them to a application would form a conflict with the expose mappings.
SECOND: If you have a mac that can do gestures to begin with but does not support four finder gestures go to: http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2009/02/13817/
That will walk you through how to create the extension in the extension folder for the four finder multitouch.
THIRD: There are tons of people on this blog saying they want Command+Tab left/right swipe functions. GO TO the Above link and activate the four finger gestures.
But biggest issue here is that the four finger gestures are system wide.
April 18, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Awesome app, and I was very happy to make a donation. Any thought of enabling a 3 finger click? I frequently open links in new tabs via two finger click and selecting the menu option, but a 3 finger click would be way more efficient. Again, thx for the awesome app.
April 20, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I am trying to install MultiClutch on a Mac with 10.5.6. However, when I go and double-click MultiClutch.prefPane, I type my password for System Preferences and that works fine. Then when I see the prompt that says “MultiClutch uses an InputManager…”, I click: Continue and Install. I then click “Open” and then type my password again. Once that happens, I get the same message again (“MultiClutch uses an InputManager…”) and the process repeats itself. What should I do? It is the new MacBook
April 24, 2009 at 7:57 am
iTunes seems to be imune to it.. why?
April 30, 2009 at 3:48 am
I can’t live without MultiClutch anymore! =) The feature I’m missing most time is to emulate a third mouse button by touching with three fingers at once. It would be great to see more progress in the future!
May 1, 2009 at 10:25 pm
They’re saying that snow leopard will be almost entirely cocoa programming, meaning that Finder and iTunes should work well with the MultiClutch on the new operation system.
May 2, 2009 at 2:19 am
Ahh it helped. Now Opera is superior to Safari in every way
May 15, 2009 at 11:53 am
How about adding 4 finger gestures, that would be SWEET!
I realize the creator has Macbook Air, but the new MacBooks support the 4 finger swipe, it’d be sweet if we could override this so something more useful.
Especially since the Left+Right swipes are duplicate functionality, same with Up+Down, LAME apple!
May 18, 2009 at 2:25 am
The out of control, Safari 4, OSX 10.5.7 pinch gesture has been tamed for me and I have the same control all applications I use frequently e.g. Pages and Numbers.
My personal preference is to use rotate right for magnify up and rotate left for magnify down. Perfect control with tiny rotations for each zoom step.
Brilliant.
Thanks to Whenderson.
May 20, 2009 at 11:45 am
Hey everybody! I thought the application needed a group in Facebook in to get the appreciation it deserves. Join now and invite yours friend, all macbook users should be aware of this awesome program!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=85303265681
May 23, 2009 at 2:55 am
It killed my computer!
Just tried to install it, system preferences hung and now nothing works. Just want to warn everybody. It is seriously in BETA…
May 23, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Kennert,
Of the thousands of users that have downloaded and installed MultiClutch, I’ve not heard one report such as yours. That doesn’t make it impossible, but highly unlikely. Are you sure it was MutliClutch that caused it? Send me an email with some more information and I’ll do what I can to help…
wc.
May 24, 2009 at 1:31 am
Hello guys,
first let me say a huge “Thank you” for Mr. Henderson, I have been dreaming a long time about the possibility to expand and customize the touchpad assignments…
Just a few hints on the keyboard shortcuts:
If you want to assign a key combination with [esc], [space], [return], [delete] or [tab]¹ , you have to press the [fn] key.
That way you can for example return to the event list in iPhoto by a multitouch shortcut.
Remember that if you want to use a global keyboard shortcut, you first have to uncheck it in the ‘Keyboard Shortcut’ preferences, then assign the multitouch shortcut, and then recheck it again in the ‘Keyboard Shortcut’ section.
I hope these hints help improve you mac experience
Salkinium
¹[command] + [tab] cannot be activated like this, use four-finger swipe if possible…
May 25, 2009 at 12:20 am
I have been using this program for so long and love it! I almost depend on it now! Any chance you’ll tell us when the full version comes out? =D
May 25, 2009 at 6:12 am
so i am running leopard, and i have a MacBook Pro 17″, but when i downloaded the app and put it into preferences the swipe up command to make windows hide only worked for the preferences window. i changed it from global to just safari and it still didn’t work. i have made it for both global AND safari and it STILL doesn’t work.
any help would be great. according to my computer it was installed completely, but maybe i missed a step
Thanks!
May 25, 2009 at 9:02 am
Hello Kristof,
when you install the app the first time, you need to quit and relaunch the application, like safari, before your settings can take effect, or you can reboot.
Just a hint on Finder and iTunes:
It works the first time, then you reboot, and it does not work anymore…
That is because these apps are carbon apps, and Multiclutch does not work with them.
BUT, I did some research on the web and you can actually relaunch many (if not all) of the shortcuts, if you right-click the Finder symbol in the Dock and create a “New Smart Folder”. Just close it then and the shortcuts work (at least in 10.5.7)…
I still have not figured out, what triggers iTunes to work, sometimes it does, sometimes it does not…
Oh, and by the way: Will is working at Apple, so he cannot really continue working on this app, so no full version, which is a shame (source: http://www.danvanwinkle.com/2008/06/25/multiclutch-your-multitouch).
But I hope, that he is working on an integrated version of Multiclutch on the next generation MacBooks…
Have fun!
May 26, 2009 at 8:39 pm
I love this app, it works great with Firefox and trying with Eclipse and Thunderbird.
The problem though with Thunderbird is that I want the gestures to trigger the following commands:
swipe left – Del
swipe up – b
swipe down – f
swipe right – n
That would allow me to move around my mailbox quite easily and delete messages. However, those key commands are not accepted. If I add some shift or function key or something to it, then it accepts the mapping, but that’s not the keyboard entry I want.
May 27, 2009 at 2:27 am
Hey guys,
Just a reminder, you can make this app consistently work in Finder and iTunes by calling the help menu. My suspicion is that even though iTunes and Finder are Carbon, the new Help functions in Leopard are Cocoa. Therefore, when you activate help (simply by clicking on it once) the program in question suddenly accepts cocoa commands. Whenever I’m using my trackpad I just tap the Help menus on those apps and then I’m good to use 3 finger swipe to move between spaces. The other thing to remember is that you can’t use Multiclutch gestures in Finder when the mouse pointer is resting over a Finder window because those windows already have gestures mapped to them. Just move the pointer outside the window and it works sweet.
Chad
May 29, 2009 at 2:58 pm
I am having exactly the same problem as Brian:
“I am trying to install MultiClutch on a Mac with 10.5.6. However, when I go and double-click MultiClutch.prefPane, I type my password for System Preferences and that works fine. Then when I see the prompt that says “MultiClutch uses an InputManager…”, I click: Continue and Install. I then click “Open” and then type my password again. Once that happens, I get the same message again (”MultiClutch uses an InputManager…”) and the process repeats itself. What should I do? It is the new MacBook”
However, it did work perfectly up to recently and then stopped all of a sudden.
I am using a MBP 4.1 OS X 10.5.7
My system log shows the following error:
May 29 23:35:13 foleyr-macbookpro System Preferences[14527]: [MultiClutch] Launching installer helper…
May 29 23:35:22 foleyr-macbookpro authexec[14588]: executing /bin/sh
May 29 23:35:22 foleyr-macbookpro [0x0-0x77077].com.yourcompany.InputManagerInstallerHelper[14575]: /Users/foleyr/Library/PreferencePanes/MultiClutch.prefPane/Contents/Resources/InputManagerInstallerHelper.app/Contents/MacOS
May 29 23:35:22 foleyr-macbookpro osascript[14595]: OpenScripting.framework – ‘gdut’ event blocked in process with mixed credentials (issetugid=0 uid=501 euid=0 gid=20 egid=20)
Can you help? Thanks in advance.
Ross
May 29, 2009 at 3:00 pm
please see also (posted by someone else)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8357453
June 2, 2009 at 2:06 am
Ahoi,
thanks for providing us with this useful software!
Is there any chance you might provide four-finger support anytime soon? I’d love to use four-finger swipe for Spaces instead of three-finger swipe, because the latter is used for back/forward in Firefox already. And I find the default four-finger left/right process choice useless anyway.
Best regards!
June 4, 2009 at 1:48 pm
Multi-clutch is amazing. Your amazing. Thank you.
June 8, 2009 at 6:37 am
Can’t assign command keys
Installed MultiClutch, was able to assign keys first time, the zoom in/out was finally solved for Safari, after I closed and open it via System Preferences, I can’t delete or assign command keys anymore! I deleted (-) Safari added it again and now I can’t assign command keys anymore. Any suggestions? Thanks!
June 11, 2009 at 10:41 pm
Unfortunately I have to remove Multiclutch for the time being because it spams my System Log with the following messages for most of the applications that are running on my MBP:
Here are some examples:
Jun 12 08:38:15 TIMUR-MAC Fireface USB Settings[393]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:38:41 TIMUR-MAC Fireface USB Settings[403]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:38:54 TIMUR-MAC AppCleaner[406]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:39:02 TIMUR-MAC iCal[407]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:39:17 TIMUR-MAC DashboardClient[413]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:39:17 TIMUR-MAC DashboardClient[415]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:39:17 TIMUR-MAC DashboardClient[414]: Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:39:17 TIMUR-MAC [0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock[192]: 2009-06-12 08:39:17.492 DashboardClient[413:10b] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:39:17 TIMUR-MAC [0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock[192]: 2009-06-12 08:39:17.495 DashboardClient[415:10b] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
Jun 12 08:39:17 TIMUR-MAC [0x0-0xa00a].com.apple.dock[192]: 2009-06-12 08:39:17.498 DashboardClient[414:10b] Can’t open input server /Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager.bundle
If this could be fixed I will happily install it again. Thanks and best regards!
June 16, 2009 at 10:12 pm
mihall, that happens to me as well. just keep the .prefpane installer on your computer somewhere and when you need to make changes to multiclutch, open that file, it’ll ask if you want to replace the existing prefpane. let it replace, and it’ll work normally.
June 18, 2009 at 11:00 am
Multiclutch is great I’m using it with firefox and I don’t even need to use keybroad shortcuts.
Here is what I used:
left swipe – Back Command+[
right swipe - Foward Command+]
down swipe – Next Tap Control+Tab
up swipe – Previous Tap Control+Shift+Tab
Rotate clockwise – New Tap Command+T
Rotate counter-clockwise – Close Tab Command+W
zoom in – Move cursor to Google Bar Command+K
zoom out – Move cursor to Address Bar Command+L
Now I never have to every use keyboard shortcuts.
June 22, 2009 at 8:32 am
Hi.
This is perfect! Simply the best app i have found so far. Use it all the time to controll logic pro 8.
I would love to see more movements available in the future, like three finger swipe while fourth finger is touching the pad.
Also it would be great if alt+key, shift+key or even single keys could be assigned.
June 23, 2009 at 1:25 am
Please optimize & fix bugs on Snow Leopard and recode for Snow Leopard 64 (service) and 64bit System Preferences
June 23, 2009 at 8:18 pm
Yes, if Snow Leopard could be supported soon, it’d be appreciated. I have to run apps in 32-bit mode for my gestures to work with them. *sigh* The app I want gestures most in, iTunes, is still natively 32-bit.
June 26, 2009 at 3:05 am
Used this to turn off over sensitivity in Safari.
Mapped zoom in and zoom out to Command-0
Thanks
June 27, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I’m having trouble zooming in. It should be cmd+, but I can’t make it to get the plus symbol because I hold shift and the equals sign which produces that actual command.
June 28, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Download link dead? Goes to idisk.mac.com and asks for password. After I hit cancel, I get and .zip which is only 12 bytes.
June 29, 2009 at 1:24 pm
Fantastic utility, adding my voice to the chorus about wanting to see support for all gestures supported by the trackpad, and also for Snow Leopard support when the time comes. Just being able to map a global to have 3-fingers-up launch Spaces would be worth $20 for me!
July 8, 2009 at 9:33 am
any chance of getting 4 finger swipe support ? i guess that snow leopard is supposed to add the 4 finger swipe to the old mbp’s but it would be nice to have it now.
have you thought about any more combo gestures, i like zoom in/out ones alot.
July 10, 2009 at 9:33 am
Hi everyone, i just finished a blog post about how to setup and use multiclutch with firefox, and spaces. If you are new to multiclutch you might find it uesful.
if anyone else happens to read my post, i would be interested in hearing about how everyone else use multiclutch in their favorite applications.
blog post – pimp my mac – part 2
http://blogs.windwardreports.com/adamm/2009/07/pimp-my-mac-part-2-using-multiclutch.html
July 10, 2009 at 3:33 pm
Thanks for giving me a way to taming the FRUSTRATING over-sensitive “pinch open and close” trackpad setting on my new MacBook Pro 13-inch! It was driving me mad!
Now in MultiClutch I set Safari’s ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ to Safari’s “actual size” keyboard shortcut, namely Apple-[zero]. Did it for Mail and MacJournal too, which don’t have an “actual size” key shortcut, by setting ‘zoom in’ and ‘zoom out’ for them to a crazy key combo of apple-alt-ctrl-shift-F12, which I’ll never use. Sanity reigns until Apple sort this out!
Glitch 1: I found that, to get it to work, I have to enter all the settings I want, all at one go. If I try to go back to the pref pane and try to enter some more on top of what I’ve done, it all goes haywire. Then I have to delete the prefpane and these also:
~/Library/Preferences/com.wonderboots.MultiClutchBindings.plist
~/Library/InputManagers/MultiClutchInputManager
… and start again.
Glitch 2: Since setting it up as above, I get seemingly random “dinging” – ie, evocation of the system alert sound. Not very frequent, so not very annoying.
Ifyou’re at Apple now please get the team to give us some control over gestures like “pinch open and close”, which is terribly oversensitive in Safari, Mail, MacJournal, etc.
Hopefully all the crazy gestures in my new MBP trackpad prefspane will be switchable and configurable.
Ace implementation.
July 10, 2009 at 3:58 pm
update: stupid me – just realized that the evocation of the system beep is from the apps like MacJournal where I set off those crazy key combos.. they are saying, “Pardon??!!”
July 12, 2009 at 10:55 am
Support for Acrobat Pro 9 would be greatly appreciated! I configured Multiclutch to pinch-zoom in and out and twist-rotate clockwise and counterclockwise in Adobe Reader, but can’t seem to do the same in Acrobat Pro
July 17, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Nev – are you trying to access Multiclutch via spotlight? If so, it doesn’t work that way (the problem happens like you described when you try). You actually need to browse to the System Preferences, and go to it that way. Then you can add new commands to it without a problem. Will Henderson knows about this problem, but hasn’t released an update since.
July 18, 2009 at 8:21 am
Thanks for writing this. Helped solve the zoom issue with OpenOffice. Of course, when I first installed it, it wasn’t saving any gestures for OpenOffice (seemed to save for everything else). I removed everything (prefs included) and reinstalled and that didn’t seem to help. I found two ways of getting it to work, 1) edit the prefs directly with the plist editor (then reboot [probably not necessary]), then the gestures would show under OpenOffice.org. Also, it appears that if I renamed the app from OpenOffice.org.app to OpenOffice.app, that it would seem to work properly.
As an aside, I have the new Macbook Pro mid-2009 13.3″ unibody. Haven’t seen anyone post the above as an issue anywhere, so might be local to something on my machine? Anyhow, posting in case someone else is having the same issue.
July 20, 2009 at 3:05 am
I would like to know how i can configure safari gestures on Snow Leopard. Other apps like firefox, chrome gestures work on snow leopard. Kindly let me know
July 20, 2009 at 9:01 pm
I noticed a few people requesting the ability to assign single keys without modifiers, and I accidently stumbled upon this work around for notebook users…
By holding the key you can “trick” the prefPane into assigning disallowed keys combinations, including those without modifiers. For example, +H will assign just H, and ++H will assign +H.
July 20, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Sorry about the previous post, I stupidly used brackets…
“For example, fn+H will assign just H, and fn+option+H will assign option+H.”
July 21, 2009 at 7:20 am
I have a problem that, when I unzip the multiclutch_beta.zip file, my Mac creates a multiclutch_beta.zip.cpgz file.
July 21, 2009 at 8:17 am
@Chris Hall – Your post gave me the clue to why I was unable to re-enter fresh keystrokes in MultiClutch. I wasn’t accessing MultiClutch via Spotlight, but I was accessing it via a screen-corner activation menu in Butler… and I see that if I just access System Preferences from the Apple menu, and then find and open MultiClutch, adding new commands works OK. Thanks for the heads-up.
July 21, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Probably already know this but I figured I’d confirm my own experience. Multiclutch works for a short period with Carbons apps like iTunes but then stops. However, if you open a separate window in iTunes (I’ve been opening “iTunes Help”) Multiclutch actions will resume working. You can of course close that Help window and it will continue to work for however much longer. Weird but proves hope for all App kind.
Side note: Multiclutch is awesome and really adds to the ease of doing many things. I tell everybody with multitouch about it. Thank you so much for making this and keeping it free!
July 23, 2009 at 5:36 am
THe Download link is dead! It#s always asking me to login into idisk? Please fix the link or upload it somewhere else (rapidshare.com etc.)
July 23, 2009 at 6:51 am
ok forget about it. This just happens when I use opera.
July 23, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Been using MultiClutch for quite a while now and loving it. However, I’ve upgraded to the latest Snow Leopard seed as part of some testing for my work, and I regret to say that MultiClutch *does not* work on Snow Leopard at the moment. For anyone who is interested, Vuze also does not work properly on Snow Leopard, almost definitely because of the new version of Java in 10.6
July 24, 2009 at 8:24 am
Great app. Can’t live without it. I only use the trackpad, and multiclutch is brilliant, allowing to create gestures for any application!!! Keep the good work, and I hope that you’ll update it to Snow Leopard in September!
July 24, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I love multiclutch! Here’s how i’ve been using it with FireFox:
Gesture – What it does – Key Command
Rotate Left – tab to the left – Cmd Alt
Swipe Down(three fingers down) – Closes Tab – Cmd W
Swipe Up (three fingers up) – Opens new Tab – Cmd T
Swipe Left (three left) – Back – Cmd
Zoom In – Zooms in – Cmd =
Zoom Out – Zooms out – Cmd -
July 25, 2009 at 1:51 am
Is there a schedule plan for 64Bit support (read: snow leopard)? I love multi clutch and would love to use it right away with my dev build
July 28, 2009 at 4:54 am
you’re a genius, i was dreaming with this app! YUhuuuu
August 1, 2009 at 1:07 am
Great piece of software. But I can’t enter alt als shortcuts.
August 4, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Link is broken. Pls fix.
August 5, 2009 at 3:41 am
Sorry, Link works, had a problem with my browser
August 5, 2009 at 8:51 pm
any update on snow leopard compatibility?
August 7, 2009 at 5:26 pm
I have a problem, I am running Leopard 10.5.8 on a macbook (early 2009), the gestures and commands work, but only when I am in system preferences, if I am out of system preferences, none of the commands work and it just does the default for the gestures.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
August 11, 2009 at 3:38 am
Any update on Snow Leopard fix compability?
August 13, 2009 at 7:00 am
I have the same problem as Paul – only works when viewing the preview pane. I think it’s clashing with firefox’s three finger gestures as well.
Also, I’d love for some four finger gesture goodness – the only thing I really want is for four finger left/right to shift spaces left/right.
Great work so far though, pls keep it up…
August 14, 2009 at 1:07 am
this is the best app ever!!!!! you are god
i’ve been using this for a year and a half and i lOOOVE it i swear to god if you were a woman id bone you. ty man hope it works for snow leopard
August 15, 2009 at 6:55 pm
i’m an idiot – this app works perfectly with snow leopard, you just have to reinstall it after upgrading. thanks again for the great app.
August 16, 2009 at 10:29 am
This app works good with many apps in snow leopard, e.g. Firefox, Qt Creator. But it does’t works with Safari, Terminal, Finder etc., which are 64 bits applications.
August 16, 2009 at 1:29 pm
you can always set safari to open in 32 bit mode if you really need multiclutch.
August 18, 2009 at 5:12 am
Hi! Tnx for your great app! I’ve a problem with Google Chrome: gestures are working only if I use “Global” profile…not if I specify “Google Chrome.app” (the same for Fireworks and other apps); and with Thunderbird nothing to do…not work in any way.
Safari works perfectly…why?
August 22, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Please, please, please, will you update this for Snow Leopard? I’ve gotten so used to using gestures while browsing, the other way (old way) is downright horrible.
August 24, 2009 at 7:41 am
Hi,
please, where are the MutliClutch configuration stored ? I would like to make a backup but I can’t find the location.
Thanks,
Jan
August 24, 2009 at 7:42 am
/Users/XXX/Library/Preferences/com.wonderboots.MultiClutchBindings.plist
August 25, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Amazing! incredulously useful and simple! triples the speed at which i browse the web, and work in other apps as well. however, i am having problems with chromium as well. it is still in beta however, so i expect the problem is with them, not this
August 27, 2009 at 6:54 am
Hi Will,
Thanks for MultiClutch, it’s pretty awesome. I had it working on snow leopard for a bit but after a while it just stopped and I can’t seem to get it going again, i’ve tried re-installing it a number of times but still nothing with 32-bit apps. Since there hasn’t been a new version in about 18 months is there any chance of either getting it to work well with SL or maybe even making it open source so others can continue development?
Kind Regards
August 27, 2009 at 6:58 am
Actually it does still work, sorry!
August 27, 2009 at 7:08 am
Ok.. i’ve come to the conclusion that it kind of works.. It’s crashed System Pref’s twice now in Snow Leopard, works with some apps that it used to but others it just can’t seem to see (they are still the same 32-bit apps, just works on some apps and not others it seems).
August 28, 2009 at 12:13 am
Source code has been available for some time.
http://wcrawford.org/2008/03/19/multiclutch-source/
August 28, 2009 at 8:18 am
I love multiclutch! Great work!
But it doesn’t work with Safari (64-Bit) @SnowLeopard!
Can you fix the compatibility on 64-Bit-Apps?
I miss it so much!
August 28, 2009 at 11:29 am
I agree with Marc. Support for SL would rock.
August 28, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I drank the Kool-Aid and am now seriously missing this app. Any ETA on a Snow-Leopard compatible version?
August 28, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Seriously broken… there’s been at least 5 people that have addressed the repeated inputmanager requests for password yet no attention to this matter. I can’t install. Can anyone with 10.5.7 install it?
August 28, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Hi Will! Your software is literally the best app I have on my mac. And after upgrading to Snow Leopard I desparately miss using it on safari. I will definitely donate if you put the time into upgrade your app so it is fully snow leopard compatible. Thanks so much!
August 28, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Well some sad news everyone.
Multiclutch will NOT work with 64bit under Snow Leopard, and in order to get it to work it apparently needs a complete rewrite of the code.
Does anyone have the ability to get it working under Snow Leopard? This is my biggest disappointment with SL.
Source code is available here: http://wcrawford.org/2008/03/19/multiclutch-source/
August 28, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Put me down for $20 to get this in SL.
August 28, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I’m down for a $20.00 contribution to get this working in SL
August 28, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I’d kick in $20 for this app to go SL. It’s been great.
August 28, 2009 at 5:32 pm
i have had snow leopard installed for 4 hours and i miss multiclutch soooo much. i will pay $25
August 28, 2009 at 5:44 pm
If the developer can confirm that he will start trying to fix it for Snow Leopard, I will definitely donate, but I don’t want to donate if he’s not going to work on it. Please make MultiClutch Snow Leopard compatible. It’s a great app and it feels weird to not be able to use it.
August 28, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I will also donate for SL support. It is an incredible time-saver and worth $20 from me.
August 29, 2009 at 4:50 am
Well… A bit of an update. You CAN still have multiclutch working in Snow Leopard. However, you need to make the apps work in 32-bit mode (rather than the new 64-bit mode). So, to do that, you need to right-click on the application, and select “Get Info”. Then there is an option to run in 32-bit more.
It works without a problem, but obviously it isn’t taking advantage of the new 64-bit architecture of Snow Leopard, which is a shame. But hopefully it will be rewritten for Snow Leopard and 64-bit.
August 29, 2009 at 7:56 am
Thanks a lot Chris! I just switched to 32 bit and it is working no problem. Great advice… thanks!
I am curious what are the advantages to running safari in the 64 bit over 32 bit?
Thanks.
August 29, 2009 at 9:24 am
I will promise a donation of $20 as well if we can get this to work using snow leopard. Also, if it needs a re-write it’d be nice to also have the 4 finger swipe as an option!
August 29, 2009 at 11:23 am
noooooo snow leopard came out and it doesent work for 10.6!!! can someone please release an update for 64 bit apps? the only reason i haven’t upgraded is due to the support for this AWESOME application, i cant live without it!!! plezzzz!!!!!! im begging you
August 29, 2009 at 11:26 am
i will throw down $20 for sl support also!!! come on look how many people love your app, you have the best app out there
August 29, 2009 at 4:03 pm
$20 from me as well!!!
…I read somewhere that Will now works for Apple…
August 29, 2009 at 4:13 pm
count me in! This was my favorite part of Mac os x! 20 bucks seems reasonable!
August 30, 2009 at 4:13 am
Can you please make it usable again for Safari? Seems like it doesn’t support Safari in SL. Great App!!
August 30, 2009 at 5:12 am
Yeah. Me too. Support for SnowLeo would be awesome!!!
August 30, 2009 at 11:50 am
Support for SnowLeopard!! Common we need this!
August 30, 2009 at 4:20 pm
A number a apps still work just fine with Multiclutch and SL. Safari does not however. Glims is awaiting the SL update too. Tough times indeed. But thank you sir for your program and it’s price. I use it everyday quite a bit
August 30, 2009 at 7:33 pm
MultiClutch DOES work with Safari in SL, please look at the above post by Chris. Still looking forward to an update so I can use MultiClutch with Quicklook again.
August 31, 2009 at 6:46 am
Better Snow Leopard support would be great yes!
August 31, 2009 at 9:15 am
I’m not sure if it’s possible to support snow leopard, but I would throw down $20 as well. I am not upgrading to snow leopard without my gestures
August 31, 2009 at 11:56 am
it works for me in firefox on snow leopard. Global gestures are gone though which is a huge bummer.
August 31, 2009 at 11:59 am
willing to pay will for SL support (20 bucks)
cmon!
August 31, 2009 at 2:53 pm
I agree, I will donate again when you come out with 64bit support for snow leopard. I cannot use my mac without your software – seriously. So I’m running everything in 32bit.
JL
August 31, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Put me down for $25. I’m thinking about restoring from backup and just sticking with leopard. I can’t believe what a difference this app made.
August 31, 2009 at 9:02 pm
has anybody noticed that command apostrophe “`” has changed in safari, when you cycle now and move to another site or link in a page and then press command apostrophe the windows cycle backwards. is it just me or is this strange and new. firefox does not do this. any tips on how to change this back. what a wierd thing to do.
August 31, 2009 at 11:47 pm
@ednann: why wold you want to do cycle that way when all it takes is a 3 finger swipe left to go back and a 3 finger swipe to forward. The is assuming, of course, that I understood correctly what you were saying.
August 31, 2009 at 11:52 pm
@andrew. sometimes i have multiple pages open. for reading, comparing and contrasting. then i go to the next window page and click a link, if i want to go to the third window page i have to cycle the opposite way now in safari to get to the third page. try this with 3 pages open in safari and 3 pages in firefox. something was changed in snow leopard in which the cycle changes direction. its very odd. i understand the swipe back and forward, which i do for a particular page but once on the next window page, my whole cycle is screwed up. and i absolutely despise tabs so i dont even want to try to see if tabs is different. it sounds confusing but i guess its something i used to and even in 32-bit safari i still have this issue.
September 1, 2009 at 8:44 am
i’d pay 5 euros for a new version of multiclutch
September 1, 2009 at 2:23 pm
You can put me down for a minimum of a $10 donation if you release an update for multiclutch.
September 2, 2009 at 3:13 am
Another vote for 64 bit version, but please include the 4 finger swipes!! My MacBook Pro (early 2008) didn’t have this under 10.5, but now SL has magically added this new feature to my MBP! Nice! Donation waiting…
September 2, 2009 at 3:22 am
Oh yeah, 4-finger swipes would be superb!
That”ll be my favourite feature, to switch Spaces with four fingers system wide (I don’t like that app-select thing (same as +tab) which is standard in (Snow) Leopard…
September 2, 2009 at 3:41 am
Put me down for $10 as well…
September 2, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Get the money first!!!!
September 2, 2009 at 2:42 pm
So many people asking for Snow Leopard support, would you mind commenting on this, either saying that you are currently working on it, or not planning to do so? I would (as probably a lot of people) like to know, because otherwise I will have to think of some other way to continue the workflow I had become used to with MultiClutch.
September 2, 2009 at 11:49 pm
@Steven your answer is here http://wcrawford.org/ on the front page, and has been there for 2 days.
September 3, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Snow Leopard Support please! I can’t live without this! Will donate if you can update the app for Snow Leopard
September 4, 2009 at 10:03 am
I 2nd Dave’s sentiment. I will will pay for support in Lepard
September 7, 2009 at 9:15 am
Yes plz, Snow Leopard support !
September 9, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I’ll also donate for a Snow Leopard version!
September 9, 2009 at 11:29 pm
I will donate my organs for SL support
September 17, 2009 at 9:28 am
So, what’s the word? is there no SL support in the horizon? I installed this and tried to use it and nothing worked! then I read here all of you saying you will pay for SL support. I was excited to have stumbled on such an awesome pref. Guess I don’t get to use it
September 17, 2009 at 9:35 pm
I believe the reason we haven’t heard anything from Will is that he works for Apple now and as far as I’m aware he can’t sell software while working at apple, or maybe he’s helping them implement things into the next big cat!
September 20, 2009 at 9:28 am
Common Will; we need ya man!!!
September 24, 2009 at 11:51 pm
Common guys, please donate first! Promises are cheap!
September 29, 2009 at 11:20 am
Multiclutch works well with my OS 10.6.1
September 29, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Hi, I really dig this application and so far I don’t think there’s any problem on this! I am wondered that if you can add more gesture to it not only the swipe, but also touch. For instance, three fingers touch can be set as the middle button of mouse. Therefore, we can do everything when using Safari like open at a new tab.
September 30, 2009 at 6:07 am
can anyone else confirm that this works on SL? Joe, you are the first I’ve heard
October 1, 2009 at 7:38 am
It will work with 32-bit applications. However, any 64-bit apps (Safari, Mail, etc.) will not work with it.
October 3, 2009 at 4:56 pm
I don’t believe it would be possible to make MultiClutch work with 64-bit apps on Snow Leopard. MultiClutch works by installing an input manager – these aren’t loaded for 64-bit applications on 10.6. Apple have removed this feature as it allowed a lot of unauthorised (yet often useful) hacks to be applied to the system. It’s the same reason Safari AdBlock and Glims aren’t working in 64-bit mode. Unless Apple have a change of heart, I doubt we’ll see 64-bit support any time soon. It’s a real shame, my Mac isn’t the same without MultiClutch!
October 4, 2009 at 4:16 am
Like Safari Cookies, could you use SIMBL for 64-bit support ?
October 6, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Hello Will, are you reading here? Are you now working with Apple? Will we see MultiClutch on Snow Leopard by default?
October 7, 2009 at 11:05 am
Glims now works in 64-bits with Safari 4 and Snow Leopard.
Don’t know how, but it’s possible.
October 12, 2009 at 4:44 pm
I have heard from Will, and at this stage he has had no luck in getting a version of multiclutch working without SIMBL. He said that everything he has tried has come to a dead end. He is still trying though.
October 15, 2009 at 1:08 am
Multiclutch worked fine for me on SnowLeopard until I did a Repair Permissions.
Could that be a hint for a solution?
October 16, 2009 at 6:39 am
it you change the software to 32bits it will mostly work.
open the get info of the software or app, tick the ‘open in 32bits’
October 20, 2009 at 8:57 am
Did you catch the info on Magic Mouse? Looks like a great device to apply Multiclutch! Have you considered it? It the obvious evolution to make it to the desktop!
October 22, 2009 at 11:24 pm
Hi!
MultiClutch 64 for Snow Leopard 64 – support 64bit and 32bit apps – http://blog.prashantv.com/category/multiclutch/
AWESOME!!!
October 24, 2009 at 12:12 pm
OMG, I have to say, at first I was a bit skeptical about the link, but WOW, it really works!!! I am soooooo happy to having disabled that annoying Icon Zoom feature in the Finder… thank you very much…
I am now running all (capable) apps in 64 bit mode, with the speed improvement, it’s just amazing!!
October 26, 2009 at 5:03 am
Thank you Chris Beecroft for your comment on OpenOffice. OpenOffice.org very badly needs this because the pinch zoom is too easy to cause, especially on a unibody Macbook Pro where the buttons are integrated into the trackpad and I very often have one finger on the button and another to move the cursor so it gets easily fooled. It also zooms terribly fast. See the OpenOffice bug on this http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=102807 and vote for it to raise it’s priority. Chris’s instructions were a little vague for me at first. I added entries for Zoom in & Zoom out to the key sequence “shift-control-option-command-left bracket” and like Chris’s experience, they weren’t being saved for OpenOffice.org into the plist file ~/Library/Preferences/com.wonderboots.MultiClutchBindings.plist. Instead, I added the entries to another application, made sure System Preferences was exited, and edited the file to change the application name to OpenOffice.org, then rebooted. I used the PlistEdit Pro property list editor but I think I could have just used any editor on the file. Along the way I tried to change the application name from OpenOffice.org to OpenOffice within MultiClutch (which was a misunderstanding of what Chris said) but MultiClutch kept crashing, I assume because the application didn’t exist.
November 2, 2009 at 7:35 am
I think there’s a new call to action for you Will!
The Magic Mouse has multi-touch, and I even read somewhere that some of it’s mappings work through multiclutch. We need a way to activate exposé with out Magic Mice. Please put on your cape again and save us from Apple’s evil tyrranical need to not give us any way to customize these things!
Chris
November 2, 2009 at 9:56 am
@Chris Without a Magic Mouse you can use function keys and hot corners. Snow Leopard has introduced four finger gestures to many older Macintosh laptops as well so I don’t understand your comment. Are you looking to be able to draw shapes on the trackpad to trigger events? If so, I’d suggest looking into Quicksilver. By enabling Abracadabra you can do just that. If you meant to type that you were interested in customizing your Magic Mouse’s gestures using Multi Clutch I think this may be the article you were looking for:
http://theappleblog.com/2009/11/02/how-to-enable-expose-and-spaces-for-the-magic-mouse/
Hope that helps!
November 9, 2009 at 12:03 pm
I had multitouch working great with magic mouse- using swiping to change space left to right like pushing papers off my desk- but then all of a sudden a weird problem started. Whether on the trackpad or the magic mouse the swipe gesture now only works in spaces 1 and 2 not 3 and 4- hitting control arrow still works but neither swipe works. I don’t know how to fix it and am out of ideas.
November 9, 2009 at 12:07 pm
I isolated the issue- It will swipe 2 or 3 times without problem and then stop functioning. Then I have to click into a program even if it is the same program I am in (but the window is no longer at the front for some reason) and it will work again for a few swipes then the problem starts again.
November 10, 2009 at 11:37 am
Beware the 3rd party SL compatible 64 bit version caused frequent crashes in Words 2008 for me.
November 11, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Got it 3 finger gestures working for spaces using SIMBL on MacBook Pro. I would really like to be able to set four finger gestures. For me, 4 finger swipe up would be ideal for opening spaces (I hate showing the desktop).
(thanks for the link:)
http://theappleblog.com/2009/11/02/how-to-enable-expose-and-spaces-for-the-magic-mouse/
November 11, 2009 at 6:37 pm
the solution to all of your problems is here http://blog.boastr.net/ he based it off of multiclutch it has amazing functionality and works on SL. Prashants fork is very good also but better touch has 2/3 or 4 finger actions. plus you can enable middle click to become spaces for example.
November 19, 2009 at 11:57 am
http://www.supersorn.com/jitouch/index.php?page=gestures
Try this Jitouch.
I came across this app after multiclutch became unusable on Snow Leopard.
This app works on SL perfectly, and can be a substitute for multiclutch.
Moving windows and resizing features are very innovative!
Unfortunate, it does not allow users to edit gestures and is not free.
November 22, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Check out this app. Works in 64 bit with snow leopard and has great support for magic mouse. Multiple updates per day. It’s called Better Touch Tool.
http://blog.boastr.net/
November 30, 2009 at 4:57 pm
MULTICLUTCH HAS BEEN RE-CODED AND HAS FULL, COMPLETE 64BIT SNOW LEOPARD SUPPORT. IT HAS BEEN CALLED BetterTouchTool. MANY MANY MANY FEATURES HAVE BEEN ADDED, INCLUDING MAGIC MOUSE SUPPORT.
Get it here:
http://blog.boastr.net/
December 26, 2009 at 11:59 pm
With this app, you can use the touchpad as a MIDI source:
http://m78software.blogspot.com/2009/12/miditouch.html
January 23, 2010 at 3:04 pm
can someone teach how to use this to click with the space with this app if thats possible on my mac book pro
January 23, 2010 at 3:05 pm
trackpad button i mean.
January 23, 2010 at 3:06 pm
matter in fact can some tell me how to use this app at all sorry im new to mac book pro
January 23, 2010 at 4:11 pm
@Javaunte
If you got a Unibody MBP with a MultiTouch trackpad running OSX 10.5, to use this app.
If you run OSX 10.6 use BetterTouchTool.
January 23, 2010 at 4:13 pm
@Javaunte
oops, messed up my english there:
You need a Unibody MBP with a MultiTouch trackpad running OSX 10.5, to use this app. [...]
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March 3, 2010 at 3:47 pm
thanks for the info. I often read here…
March 15, 2010 at 10:30 pm
just like bob the dude and heli,i lost all my presets.I do backup with timemachine,but i don’t know whick and where the preference file of MC is.If i know,i could restore it back to the folder where MC store its prefs.
Can anyone help?