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Does MagicPrefs work in Mac OS X Lion?
I currently have MagicPrefs installed on my iMac to increase the scrolling speed of my Magic Mouse. Does MagicPrefs work in Mac OS X Lion, or should I uninstall it before I do the Lion install? I don't use MagicPrefs for any of the fancy gestures, but I would like to take advantage of all the new Lion gestures.
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Based on the following tweet from MagicPrefs on Twitter, the current build should work perfectly fine in Lion: https://twitter.com/magicprefs/status/885939574156...
Q: " Is there a build for Lion? Been using the dp since the first release….looking for an alternative gesture app"
A: "the current version should work"
Q: " Is there a build for Lion? Been using the dp since the first release….looking for an alternative gesture app"
A: "the current version should work"
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It works fine, but if you were previously only using it to enable simple gestures (eg. Magic mouse two-finger swipe to change spaces) that are now baked into Lion; it goes without saying that you're better off disabling MagicPrefs and using the native gestures.
The native ones seem much more responsive too.
On my MBP, I found that even with none of the MagicPrefs gestures for the MBP's trackpad selected, new Lion gestures such as the three-finger double tap (ie. dictionary lookup) weren't being triggered. Disabling MagicPrefs entirely fixed this.
Obviously MagicPrefs allows for much more advanced options (custom actions, plugins, etc.); so YMMV. I wasn't using any of the advanced features, so all of the gestures I use are now native in Lion.
The native ones seem much more responsive too.
On my MBP, I found that even with none of the MagicPrefs gestures for the MBP's trackpad selected, new Lion gestures such as the three-finger double tap (ie. dictionary lookup) weren't being triggered. Disabling MagicPrefs entirely fixed this.
Obviously MagicPrefs allows for much more advanced options (custom actions, plugins, etc.); so YMMV. I wasn't using any of the advanced features, so all of the gestures I use are now native in Lion.
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