Way to change the gesture that invokes Launchpad

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i use launchpad quite a lot, but find the 'finger & thumb' pinch rather awkward.

i never use mission control, and would love to use the 3 finger vertical swipe for launchpad instead of mission control.

in the trackpad section of system preferences there appears to be no way to swap these out, which seems rather limited to me.

Can it be changed?

Best Answer

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Launchpad & Dock and set a keyboard shortcut to Lauchpad.app.

System Preferences

Use BetterTouchTool to set a custom gesture to activate the keystroke you've set before.

MacOS Sierra and newer

On macOS Sierra and newer the old launchpad database does not exists anymore. Instead every user has his personal launchpad database somewhere inside /private/var/folders (contains a lot of cryptic names).

How to find the database

The personal database is owned by you user, so you can use the following command to find out the path of the database:

 echo $(find /private/var/folders -user $(id -u) -name com.apple.dock.launchpad 2> /dev/null)/db/db

After you have the path to the new database, you can continue to edit it like before (e.g. using sqlite3 command).

Thanks to Chris Perry from Jamf Nation for sharing what he found! See his post here.

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