Four fingers swipe won't work on magic trackpad

Hello,
just bought a magic trackpad to use with my macbook pro and a second display. Mainly, I purchased the accessory for the four fingers swipe between full screen apps and it doesn't work.
If I change the command to a 3 fingers swipe, it does work, but then, I can't use the 3 fingers drag.
Any solution ?

This solved everything :
https://discussions.apple.com/message/16242792#16242792#16242792
Just turn off every gesture settings and put them back on. Works fine now!

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