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title: "Trackpad gestures for scrolling windows"
description: "Swipe with three or four fingers and the strip moves with your fingers, then settles on the nearest column."
url: https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/trackpad-swipe
lang: en
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# Swipe the strip, one to one

Swipe with three or four fingers and the strip moves with your fingers, then settles on the nearest column. Or hold ⌃⌥ and scroll.

- **Follows your fingers:** At 1:1, a swipe across the whole trackpad moves the strip one screen width.
- **Settles on a column:** When you let go, a column lines up with the edge of the screen. Turn that off to stop anywhere.
- **Plays well with macOS:** Pick a gesture macOS isn't using to switch Spaces; vertical gestures stay with macOS.

**Scrolling Windows is optional.** It stays off until you turn it on. While it's on, window snapping and automatic window snapshots pause, and restoring a workspace turns it off; the strip saves its own session instead.

## Keep exploring

- [Scrolling Windows](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/scrolling-windows)
- [Column widths](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/column-widths)
- [Stacks](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/stacks)
- [Tabbed columns](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/tabbed-columns)
- [Grid tiling](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/grid-tiling)
- [Strip overview](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/strip-overview)
- [Scrolling on several displays](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/multiple-displays)
- [Focus, gaps and the Dock](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/focus-and-gaps)
- [Floating windows and app rules](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/floating-windows)
- [All features](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features)

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