Gestures - how do I disable them?

Whilst trying to drag notes between document panels I was suddenly presented by a pop-up with a big L, and a text saying 'Close panel'.

Arrrgh!!!

I have not seen this before, although Gestures were in L5 I presumed that I had disabled them (Gestures are a poor idea IMHO). The wiki has something about them from two years ago (Thanks Dave Hooton) but it does not mention how to disable them ... and now I cannot find how I did it (if I ever did).

Either way ... finally getting to the point ... how do I disable gestures in L6?

(and is there an 'undo close panel' in L6 !)

Thanks.

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Dale

I HEARTILY AGREE that there should be a way to DISABLE GESTURES (in ANY version that they exist.)

I finally got SO fed up with closing tabs that I had no idea why they closed that I started searching for "shortcuts" etc that might be behind this behavior, and as I did, I made the connection to gestures from smartphone and tablets use.

I searched for "disable gestures" in the forums, and still had to read several pages before hitting on the Wiki page that explains them, but as you said, does NOT explain how to disable them. (I also later saw that my default search sorting was by Newest, rather than Relevance, and once corrected, your post here came up right away, along with others of relevance.

PLEASE, anyone, HELP US DISABLE this VERY maddening "feature."

For me, it happens mainly because I am reading too late and beginning to fall asleep, and my unconscious movements with my trackball mouse run these gesture commands and make life miserable for me.

I must often press the right button and also move down, right, and close tabs.

OR I press right button and move "up, right diagonal," which goes to Reading View. Then I've been forced to use a Fn/F11 combo to get back where I was, and that often takes a couple of tries to pull it off. (Now, having read the Gestures page, I may be able to USE the Gesture of "down, left diagonal," to ESCAPE reading view.

And Martin, the only suggestion I have for Undo on the Close Panel gesture that you also wrestle with is to go immediately over to your History (which I leave always open, mostly due to this "feature" and its consequences) and double click the top item, which should be the tab you just closed. That opens it right back up where you had it. (Though I think it loses its own navigational history of using the back/forward buttons on that tab, which I miss, since I often utilize them to investigate several other versions, then retrace my way back to where I was.

I hope this applies to your L6 and is helpful. I'm still using L5 and only used it for a short time so far, and hardly know my way around yet.

Oh, the link to the Wiki gestures page is:

https://wiki.logos.com/Gestures#What_is_a_Gesture_.3f

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/708369#Comment_708369

I'm still using L5 and only used it for a short time so far, and hardly know my way around yet.

welcome! I agree that gestures would be annoying... I don't know how to turn them off if not in "preferences". I am on my iPad currently so I can't check. I must not ever trigger those patterns on my trackpad.

one unrelated question: is there a reason you haven't updated to the free L6 engine?

Dale

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/708420#Comment_708420

Mostly that I haven't taken time to research issues moving to L6 and I don't make that kind of switch until I'm very comfortable that it will not have more bad than good coming along with it.

I've been burned so many times by "upgraded" OSs on phones and computers that I'm pretty leery. Unless I am having totally unacceptable experience with a current version, I don't need to be inviting more problems and learning curve.

If there is one thing I would rate LOGOS very low on, it is the learning curve required to use the program even in simple ways. And I don't see that getting better, I see it getting worse, because that seems to be the accepted norm for the whole software culture, from Google to MS and almost across the board.

But I digress...

Matthew Lee

From Logos in-program help: "In Logos 6.4 (and later), gestures are disabled by default. To enable them enter set use gestures to yes in the Command Box."

Thus to disable them, you can type set use gestures to no into the command box.

Also, to undo closing a window/tab, you can try selecting the most recent layout from the Layout menu, but there may not always be an option exactly like you want.