Customizing Navigation Gestures and Shortcuts

Go to Settings, the Destinations tab, and tap Configure gestures. A full-screen map shows the four gesture zones - gray where a zone is free, red where it already carries an action - and tapping a zone opens it straight away. Four tabs - Left top, Left bottom, Right top and Right bottom - each hold an Up gesture action, a Down gesture action and a Right gesture action, with the target row underneath. A fifth area, General gesture settings, holds what every zone shares - where screenshots are saved, whether they also copy to the clipboard, and the quick-access panel editor. Turn the device sideways and the map switches to two columns so both edges stay in view.

Each direction opens the same wide catalog, grouped by kind - Screen capture, Camera, Launch, Device control, System and Utilities - with a short line under every choice explaining what it does, from a silent screenshot to setting an alarm, muting the volume or opening the camera in video mode. A slot can also be switched off, listed under its own Disabled group.

Choose Launch a chosen app and pick from the installed apps - each of the twelve gesture slots keeps its own choice. The row under the action names the app and clears it in one tap; with nothing chosen, or once the chosen app is gone, the gesture opens FastMediaSorter instead. Choosing Open a web address works the same way: a Web address row appears under the action, always ready to re-read, correct or clear, so a mistyped address is one tap away from fixed rather than a re-entry from scratch.

The two bands per edge sit wherever the phone's own system bars leave the screen free - on the left and right in the usual layout, or across the top and bottom on a device whose bars run down both sides. Turning the phone does not move them by itself: the bands, the swipe directions and the map on screen all turn together, so Up still means up from where you are holding the phone.

In the noLegal edition, an edge gesture opens as a hint menu instead of firing the moment you touch the edge: the action runs only when you lift your finger, and dragging back to the spot you started from - the cancel target - runs nothing at all. This is only in the sideload (noLegal) version of the app.

Assign All apps to a gesture slot the same way as any other action, and it brings the running desktop forward with the list already open, instead of starting a second copy. The desktop's own four swipes - set up in the Gestures group of the launcher settings - can do the same, plus Next screen and Previous screen for paging between desktop screens, and in edit mode you can tap a shortcut and send it straight to another screen. Both are covered in full in Arranging the desktop.

The Clock gadget answers its own swipes: hide or bring back the seconds, or swipe for a random dial color and time typeface, or swipe back to the theme color. The date keeps its own typeface while sharing whichever dial color you land on, and the choice survives a launcher restart.

A double tap on empty desktop space locks the device screen, or blacks the screen out with its own overlay where a real device lock is out of reach - any tap or key brings the desktop straight back. Turn it off with Double tap to lock the screen in the Desktop group of the launcher settings.