How to: Expose with Magic Mouse & BTT

Nov 11

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As this question pops up very often, here a short description on how to set expose (or other shortcuts) to specific gestures.

Step 1:

Go to your System Preferences and select “keyboard” (between energy saver and mouse)

Step 2: deselect the action

Step 3: Go to the BTT Preferences and assign the wanted key by double clicking into the key command fieldStep 4: Go back to your system preferences and activate the action again.

written by Andreas Hegenberg

9 Responses to “How to: Expose with Magic Mouse & BTT”

1. jpma Says:
November 11th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
it works but not the same way as the original one,
because the original 4 touch, you can hold down you fingers and let go it will return to the original state,
but with the BTT, i can no longer use the hold down method.
2. Thomas Davie Says:
November 11th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Thanks for those instructions. Works pefectly, and am testing 0.3.

Tom
3. magicmouseowner Says:
November 11th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
How to I set the 3 finger click to emulate the middle mousewheel button on regular mouses ? I was hoping that was possible, but I have searchd the whole net without any info on what the keyboard shortcut is for the middle mouse button. If there isn´t any, could you make that feature ? For me that is all I want!…
4. charliie Says:
November 13th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
does this work on regular macbooks (no multitouch trackpad ?) I’ve tried but not yet succeeded…
5. Paco Says:
November 17th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Oh wow, this is amazing. I’ve set my magic mouse to use Expose on 3 finger click and switch Spaces with every directional swipe. This helps soooo much. Thank You!!!
6. SteveB Says:
November 20th, 2009 at 8:10 am
my magic mouse was going back because of lack of expose. Not now, this is brilliant. Even better than the old side buttons!
7. Ale Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:13 am
I wasn’t gonna buy the magic mouse just because of the lack of 3rd and 4th buttons, but now I’m gonna! ;D
Thanks A LOT for doing this! And for keeping up with the development!
(I can beta test if you need..)
8. John Scholz Says:
November 22nd, 2009 at 5:59 am
Can you please tell me how to view the BBT preferences. I have the three finger working OK but cannot find anywhere where the preference window is. I am running an imac 10.6.2.
Thanks
9. Ricardo Matosinhos Says:
November 24th, 2009 at 1:46 am
Great tool!
This should be a standard tool on the OSX