Intellij IDEA on mac: how to disable pinch gesture for zooming

Question

I use IntelliJ IDEA for scala development on my macbook air. However, there is one very irritating feature: OS-X pinch two fingers to zoom changes the font size. I would like to disable this because it always happens unintentionally. Does anyone knows how to disable it?

Edit: See comments for the solution.

score 17 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 21 '14 at 20:43

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In addition to the answer by @CrazyCoder above, in order to access this Registry property on Mac OSX (tested on Mavericks):

at source code area, use the shortcut Cmd+Opt+Shift+/
select the 2nd option Registry
then you can find the attribute actionSystem.mouseGesturesEnabled, unclick the value column

answered Jun 21 '14 at 20:43

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Excellent! this works for me following a restart of IntelliJ and the Registry option is now the 1st option, at least for version 2020.2 – user1881282 Nov 25 '20 at 16:51

score 16 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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Try to disable Preferences | Editor | Change font size (Zoom) with Command+Mouse Wheel.

EDIT: it doesn't have effect on the trackpad pinch to zoom, but there is a hack to disable trackpad gestures via the IDE Registry:

actionSystem.mouseGesturesEnabled = false

edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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answered Jul 24 '13 at 15:39

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Try to [access the registry](http://stackoverflow.com/a/11829639/104891) and disable `actionSystem.mouseGesturesEnabled` property. – CrazyCoder Jul 24 '13 at 22:08
After restarting IDEA it works! Thank you so much CrazyCoder! – Karolis Jul 25 '13 at 02:37
no need for restart in the latest version. thanks @CrazyCoder – Gaurav Nov 23 '20 at 12:52
I tried it and unfortunately it doesn't work. – Mikhail Kashkin May 10 '22 at 11:06

Intellij IDEA on mac: how to disable pinch gesture for zooming

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