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Lee has mentioned BetterTouchTool in a lot of videos recently, so it's finally time he dedicated a video series to showing you the many features this excellent Mac utility provides.

BetterTouchTool has come a long way since our last deep dive almost eight years ago. In the first of this two-part series, Lee walks you slowly through the interface, and demos some of the gestures you can trigger using the trackpad to execute actions on macOS. This includes launching apps and moving and resizing your windows. You also learn how to use keyboard shortcuts and key sequences as triggers, to automate almost any action you can think of on your Mac.

Join Lee on this exploration by following along in BetterTouchTool so you get the most out of this video.


This video covers:

  • The Interface
  • Simple Trackpad Gestures
  • Stacking Actions
  • More Trackpad Gestures
  • Using Keyboard Shortcut Triggers
  • Advanced Keyboard Options
  • Caps Lock - Hyper Key
  • Using Key Sequences
  • Caps Lock Key Sequencing
  • More Key Sequence Examples

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BetterTouchTool Website

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BetterTouchTool Forum

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(5 comments posted)

Ferrers Young

My ? Hyper Key works as a caps lock toggle with a single tap and a hyper key when held down with another key — no need for the ? double tap.
I think Andreas updated the implementation of the Hyper Key, so you may need to delete your existing definition and recreate it.

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Lee Garrett

Hey thanks Ferrers, not something I was aware of - good to know! I've definitely got in the habit of the double tap of the Caps Lock key to enable that.

Ferrers Young

My ? Hyper Key works as a caps lock toggle with a single tap and a hyper key when held down with another key — no need for the ? double tap.
I think Andreas updated the implementation of the Hyper Key, so you may need to delete your existing definition and recreate it.

Angel Garcia

Question. At the 17 minute marker, you are mentioning that on Safari the trigger to move to the next tab is control right arrow key. I believe I have my control button off somewhere. How do I check?

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Lee Garrett

Hi Angel - sorry, how do you mean 'off somewhere'? Do you mean the control button(s) 'switched off' as in de-activated? Thanks.

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