achinoam01: 10.7: Throw windows while dragging

Saturday, September 10, 2011

10.7: Throw windows while dragging

Throw windows around your Lion desktop.

The new 3-finger trackpad gesture in Lion is used to drag stuff - like moving and resizing windows, selecting text, etc.

I don't know if it's intentional or as a side effect of other gestures, but if you start dragging a window then release just one or two fingers, but not all three, then the drag will stop, but it has some inertia applied to it, much like 'normal' scrolling.

My colleague invented a new game called Window Pong -- can you throw a window from one side of your desktop to the other?

[crarko adds: OK, what I found when I tried this with the Magic Trackpad was after I started dragging a window with the three-finger drag and then let up to go to two fingers only, I could keep dragging the window indefinitely. Then if I let up again to only have one finger, it would still keep on dragging. When I went from three fingers directly to one the drag action stopped right away. I think this may h ...