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FTR, this is about the following setting:

Sadly, all I could find was this:

# Swipe between pages
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool false

(This is the setting I currently use, although it’s not included in .osx — I think it’s the default.)

So enabling/disabling the swiping is easy enough; I just wish we could figure out where the different values (“two fingers”, “three fingers”, or “two or three fingers”) are stored. Perhaps @lri knows?

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Changing it in System Preferences seems to change the TrackpadThreeFingerHorizSwipeGesture and TrackpadThreeFingerVertSwipeGesture keys in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist. But when I tried editing the keys directly, it didn't change the behavior of my MacBook Air's trackpad or the settings selected in System Preferences. (I don't have a Magic Trackpad to test it with.)

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Thanks, @lri. May I ask what your your technique is for finding the affected plist file? I usually try #5 (comment) but in this case that didn’t help.

As with all Trackpad settings, these seem to be mirrored in two places:

# Enable swipe between pages
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleEnableSwipeNavigateWithScrolls -bool true
# MacBook Trackpad (built-in)
defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.trackpad.threeFingerHorizSwipeGesture -int 1
# Magic Trackpad
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadThreeFingerHorizSwipeGesture -int 1

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defaults -currentHost write NSGlobalDomain com.apple.trackpad.threeFingerHorizSwipeGesture -int 1 (and logging out and back in) didn't seem to change the behavior at least on my MacBook Air.

I tried the diff trick first too and it didn't list the keys, but then I just piped the output of defaults read to grep. Now diffing does list them though, weird.

I also tried searching for potential preference keys with something like:

strings /System/Library/Frameworks/*.framework/Versions/Current/* /System/Library/Frameworks/*/Frameworks/*/Versions/Current/* 2> /dev/null | grep -iE '(swipe|gesture|finger)' | grep -E '^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]{10,80}$' | sort | uniq > ~/Desktop/strings.txt`

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I could swear those commands changed the System Preferences settings the other day when I was testing it. I didn’t even have to log out — just close and re-open System Preferences before/after running the commands.

I tried again after reading @lri’s latest comment and indeed, the commands don’t seem to have any effect now. Re-opening until someone figures out what’s up.

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FWIW, the commands that are currently in .osx for this seem to have worked for my fresh Mountain Lion install. (Unless this setting is enabled by default in OS X 10.8, that is.)

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