Laughing Means A Lot To Me

I guess you know what I’m talking about. Let’s go to the solution directly first:
Go to Terminal and input the command as follows, press Enter, input password as needed.

sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"

Restart and try it out!
When you want to get back to Lion’s default state, use this command:

sudo nvram -d boot-args

If experiencing problem when restart, restart again and press ⌘, ⌥, P, R together to reset PRAM. (Not sure how to fix this yet, as I guess, it works only for Nvidia video card? Check your MacBook’s specification.)

And here’s why we are doing this:

I found a lot of people have the same habit as me that, we don't want extended desktop because the mouse always travels to some places that hard to find or something like that. So we connect external display to MacBook, close the lid to put system to sleep, then activate display by external mouse or keyboard, then open the lid to keep the MacBook cool. In Snow Leopard age, doing such a thing, the MacBook's LCD won’t wake up when you open the lid. But in Lion, it will turn on automatically.

Fortunately, we can always do some tricks in Terminal like before. Thanks to chenga.8, @hengdm, @hello_kukoo, @apple4us to provide the useful tip.

A lot of people find that backward/forward multi-touch gestures in Snow Leopard for Finder, iTunes, web browser like Chrome/Firefox, are not available any more in Lion. I wrote a solution for that in July. Later in August, the solution is not working due to the update of 10.7.1.

MagicPrefs is the software I recommended before, which is free, and gives so many gesture functions for trackpad, Magic Mouse. A few days ago I found another software, jitouch, which shows you the new definition of Multi-touch Gesture. It presents dozens of new gestures that you can define for dozens of functions.

Firstly, solve the backward/forward problem.

I know this is what you came here for. Please follow me, we take MacBook built-in trackpad as example:

1. Download jitouch here and install it.
2. Go to System Preferences - Trackpad. In tab Point & Click, uncheck the box “Three finger drag”. Maybe you would like this on. But it may cause some mis-selecting text in backward/forward action, you can take a try later. Your choice.
3. In tab More Gestures, make sure Swipe between full-screen apps is with the option Scroll left or right with FOUR fingers. It ensures that swipe with 3 fingers gesture is not occupied by system.
4. You can find jitouch setting in the bottom Other group of System Preferences. Click into it. In Trackpad tab, make sure Enable jitouch for Trackpad is checked. In the list box below, find out Three-Swipe-Left/Right. If there’s no, click “+” button to add it. Relate it to Keyboard Shortcut: CMD+[ (for Left)  and CMD+] (for Right) and save it.
5. Make sure there’s no conflict between system and jitouch setting.
6. Open Finder, iTunes, Chrome... and take a try!

Ok, why jitouch?

I feel, compare to MagicPrefs, the sensitivity of jitouch is more accurate. You can see a * . Meanwhile, MagicPrefs could do the same thing and MagicPrefs is FREE! Still, your choice.

And any other tips?

• Don’t make yourself confused by adding too many gestures. Even if you can remember, if you are using different computers in company and at home, relying on so many convenient functions makes u suffer in the other place (esp. Windows. In the mean time, I say, Go Geeks, Go! ).
• The gestures of “n-Fix other-Tab” in jitouch is brilliant, default setting of “Previous Tab / Next Tab” etc. is quite handy. Don’t waste it.
• Cheers for keeping the “Smooth History (Official name: Swipe to navigate)” of Safari (maybe in some other apps too? I’m not sure yet) and “backward/forward” of Chrome together. Yeah!

Fully agreed with some reviews of Mac OS X Lion that, pop up window animation is quite annoying. Luckily it also provides a way to disable it with Terminal.

In Terminal, paste command below and press enter:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO

UPDATE on Aug 13,2011: Try Lion Tweaks to make it more easier. You can change many other hidden settings with it too.

Pop up window animation in Lion