xGestures is a shareware program that allows you to use mouse gestures in all aspects of your Macintosh computer.

You can define gestures for individual programs, or for the whole computer, and map them to useful functions like closing or minimizing windows, switching or launching applications, picking menu items or performing keystrokes, triggering Expose, and much more!

It gives you a lot of control over how your computer will manage mouse gestures.

You can specify global gestures that will apply to all applications, but you can also specify that certain applications shouldn't use global gestures. Also, if there's a program that you don't want gestures enabled in, possibly because you need to use your mouse and all of its buttons normally, you can disable gestures in that application and it will continue to function normally.

Better still, you can enable gestures in a program without changing the functionality of any of the mouse buttons, allowing xGestures mouse gestures to be available in a program that already has its own mouse gestures, like Opera or Mozilla!

If you have a mouse with multiple buttons, you can specify that the third or fourth button be used to perform gestures if you want the right mouse button's functionality to remain the same. Also, you can specify a combination of modifier keys that need to be pressed in order for a gesture to happen, so that it's possible to perform mouse gestures even with a one button mouse.

The program works by installing a kernel extension that allows certain mouse buttons to remapped. By default, the extension is disabled and will not affect your system unless activated by the xGestures program.

When xGestures is launched, it will then begin monitoring your mouse movements, and will perform specified actions and a mouse gesture is performed.

Limitations:

· 15 days trial period.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fixed issue with keystroke gestures randomly not working in Snow Leopard
· Improved application detection (Microsoft Office 2008 and Google Chrome should work now)
· Keystroke gestures should produce the same keystroke regardless of keyboard localization
· Fixed the Finnish version of the preference pane
· Preference pane is now properly 64-bit
· Certain gestures like "Quit Application" should work more consistently in non-English locales now