Cannot disable three finger tap look up after migrating to a new computer

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I recently moved to a new MacbookPro and migrated my old computer's files/settings over to the new one.

For some reason I am unable to disable the ability to look up the definition to a word by using a three finger tap gesture.

  • I have unchecked the "Look up" option in the Trackpad preference
    pane.

  • I also disabled option to "Look Up in Dictionary" within Keyboard
    preference pane > Keyboard Shortcuts > Searching > Look Up in
    Dictionary.

I typically use BetterTouchTool to turn a three finger tap gesture into a middle click, I have disabled this feature for now and continue to have the issue where if I tap something with three fingers the text becomes highlighted and I am greeted with a definition to the word. This happens in all applications.

Is there any other way to disable this feature? Is there a terminal command I could try?

Best Answer

Have you tried deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist or running defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad TrackpadThreeFingerTapGesture -bool false?

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