Swiping for Mission Control changes in Mavericks?

In Mountain Lion I can three finger swipe up to get to Mission Control, then without lifting my fingers from the trackpad swipe down to bring the screen back. In Mavericks I have to lift my hand from the trackpad to get back out of Mission Control. I cannot find a setting to change that behavior. Is this an intentional change in Mavericks? It's ashame if it is.
Thanks.

I just played around with this again. I can swip back and forth with out picking up my fingers. However, it's more complexed than a simple "return swipe".
Swipe up for Mission Control. Then a swipe down and back up for normal.
KOT

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I figured it out. ^1 typed from the number keys is not equivalent to ^1 typed from the numeric keypad. So, when you go into system prefs / keyboard / shortcuts / mission control, it may LOOK the same, but it is not. You simply have to select each of your spaces and change them to ^1, ^2, ^3, etc., using the NUMERIC keypad. It will look the same to you, but it will work properly after that.

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When I'm working with any other apps on my system, I can take advantage of Mission Control, but have forego these advantages when using the Creative Suite. Isn't it really about time that Adobe put some effort into supporting these OS-level features. Whether you favour Mac OS or Windows, you should be able to take advantages of the system you prefer to work on.
Is there any word on whether CS6 will support these features? (I'm not exactly holding my breath).
There is no word on anything about InDesign CS6 yet. (Those who know can't say, and I'm not aware of any substantive leaked information.)
I think that Spaces/Mission Control support is probably predicated on the Carbon to Cocoa conversion. So until InDesign is a Cocoa app, this is unlikely to improve. Personally I manage to avoid using Spaces to any significant degree, so I don't really notice these things. Have you tried Photoshop, which is a Cocoa app? Does it behave better?
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My Normal Settings are.
Left gives me Dashboard.
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EDIT
Or it was when I tested this first and made me wonder if this was what you meant by "background"
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HT4689 How to stop Mission control from adding Desktops??

Personally, have not had and don't now have any use for Mission Control or any such "innovations."
After 6 years of happy Mac I find all sorts of things some kid thinks I need.
Mail has moved into a Desktop of it's own. I don't know what I did to have that happen; but, I have been unable to change it back although I have read the so-called documentation.
As usualit that tell all we CAN do, (sales pitch) but not HOW!!
Will appreciate your help. Saves another call to Applecare.
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I asume you have tried this in a similar situation so I appreciate your replying.
It is full screen and when I clicked the link - I got a very small icon in the center of a large black window apparently supposed to be a screen shot(png).
The drag to the desired Desktop had been tried repeatedly proving myself to be the fool. I have practically worn out ctrl ↑ but the 'drag' is only left or right and when placed over my Desktop (THE ONLY ONE I WANT) it just bounces back to the right. It will NOT drag down to the large window of the "Original."
Why we have come to the place that everyone seems to know what every one else SHOULD have or think, I don't know. I am blessed to have lived through a better time. I luckily retired before our clients realized my lack of smarts as a PE..
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Hey llsorens,
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https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18757?locale=en_US&viewlocale=en_US
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Have the app open in the current space on a specific display: Choose Options > Desktop on Display [number].
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