Wednesday, November 16, 2022

xGestures lives on: version 1.9.1

I have just finished a new version of xGestures, available as always at the following link: https://briankendall.net/xGestures/download.htm

There aren't any new features in this build, though there are a number of important fixes. Several of you reported to me that xGestures was crashing every time your macOS Ventura systems woke up from sleeping. That should now be fixed. Technically, this is one of those "how did it ever not crash" bugs so this may fix crashes in earlier versions of macOS too.

I also added a little advanced settings button with a toggle that changes how xGestures filters out mouse events. This setting is specifically there to make xGestures work with SteerMouse.

There's a few other little fixes at well that I won't repeat here since it's in the change log.

edit on November 17: I forgot to notarize xGestures before I released it! 😖 But I've since fixed it and re-uploaded it. Hopefully that didn't give so many of you any issues.

8 comments:

aki said...

So excellent! macOS Ventura issues are nicely resolved—thanks so much!!

Sergesouszero said...

Brian, as I have already said, I will never thank you enough for maintaining xGestures alive.

Ed said...

As always, thanks so much for continuing to develop xGestures.

Anonymous said...

Am I impressed or what? EXACTLY what I’ve been looking for and did not think existed! Bryan you’re a godsend.

Chih Peng Lucas Kao said...
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Lucas Kao said...

Hi Brian, I love love love XGesture, one of the best MacOS thing I used and had been kept using!

mstoops said...

I've been using xGestures for over a decade now, and find it an invaluable time-saver. Every time I get on a computer without it installed, I automatically start to gesture, and then stare blankly at the screen when nothing happens. I do have a request: any chance you could get it into Homebrew? Would make installation and updates easier.

Brian Kendall said...

@mstoops I'm not a homebrew user myself and I've never added something to it before. But I don't think there's any reason why someone else couldn't set that up.