Sunday, August 31, 2008

I’m kind of a tool freak, and when mouse gestures were added in some browsers, I really felt they added value.
I was interested in using gestures in more applications (like Visual Studio) and found the tool ‘StrokeIt’. It is a great tool, fast, accurate, highly configurable and when I introduce it to team members they tend to giggle. So that’s all cool.

However, it does not work well with UAC and X64, much to the dismay of many users on the strokeIt forums. The tool hasn’t been updated since 2005, so that does not bode well.

Now I have found gMote and it is everything I could ever ask for (well, except for a more fun name).
It works very well and has a very nice workflow for defining gestures and assigning tasks for it. I already setup gestures for navigating tabs, paging up and down, minimizing windows and closing tabs/windows.

One tip: I used to use the right mouse button to draw gestures, but that seems to work less reliable. Instead, I now use the middle mouse button.

Go and download gMote now! I couldn’t be happier.

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