Unpopular opinion, but I like the Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard!<p>I try other Mouses but always return to the Apple products.<p>Trying to get other Mouses to have the same acceleration and tracking as you he Magic Mouse eludes me!<p>The thing with the Magic Mouse is the touch sensor on top! Being able to swipe and scroll horizontally and vertically is so ingrained that I miss it when switching.<p>Adding a TouchID sensor to the side of the Apple Magic Mouse would be super useful!<p>I don’t have a Magic Keyboard with TouchID yet, so I’m constantly reaching over to MacBook keyboard. I feel like if my thumb could just connect with the TouchID sensor on the side of a Magic Mouse, there’s be a lot less friction in the security UI!<p>I’m inspired to also try a trackpad given the enthusiasm shown in the comments here!
This is a mandatory install on macOS for me (one of many).
The suite of extra software utilities required to make the base OS usable is ridiculous, but I'm glad to see open source maintainers working to keep my mouse working.
Unpopular opinion perhaps, but as someone who's bouncing between all three big desktop platforms pretty regularly, cursor acceleration is a total non-issue. I adjust to the difference so quickly that I don't even notice a difference.<p>I'm glad that Sonoma is adding the checkbox to turn it off for those who need it but it's never been a bother for me.
Not to take away from this app, but I’ve been using Mos <a href="https://mos.caldis.me" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mos.caldis.me</a> for a couple of years now and it’s been just enough to mitigate the faults I had with default mouse settings in macOS.
This is what I've been looking for for such a long time.<p>The maximum speed that can be configured using the built in tools for both mouse and trackpad is way too slow for my liking.<p>In the past I used MagicPrefs to do this, but that sadly doesn't work anymore. This is the first time I'm able to do this again, and with a free tool too! Thanks a lot for submitting this.
Related:<p><i>LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27485051">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27485051</a> - June 2021 (76 comments)
I've long looked for a good mouse utility for Mac that can disable mouse acceleration, modify scroll wheel behavior, etc. This one even saves preferences per-device which I find very useful.
Can’t use macOS&Magic Mouse on 2x27” without cranking up the acceleration. Been using <a href="https://plentycom.jp/en/cursorsense/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://plentycom.jp/en/cursorsense/</a> for 10 years.
Will try this, seems more maintained.
I've used Smooze [1] in the past. It has a ton of features, but I really just need it for turning off mouse acceleration and making the scroll wheel usable. Glad to see an open source option.<p>[1] <a href="https://smooze.co/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://smooze.co/</a>
I would prefer it show me the homebrew command in addition to a copy to clipboard button instead of just the button so I have to _trust_ what you're having me paste.<p>It's `brew install --cask linearmouse` for those wondering.
Are you a windows/linux user that finds Mac mice always feel weirdly slow or "wrong"? This fixes it, and is frequently updated. Mandatory new mac install item for me.
Nice! I've been using Mac Mouse Fix (<a href="https://mousefix.org/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mousefix.org/</a>), which is also open source, to handle inverting my mouse wheel and remapping the back/forward buttons, but LinearMouse looks quite a bit more featureful.
The lack of mouse acceleration in Windows is what make it feel, to me, clunky and slow. I know it’s a function of what you grew up with/are used to but it’s interesting to see. Personally I like being able to flick my mouse across the screen without having to pick up my mouse—enables faster work.
This looks really good! Installing right now.<p>As an aside, I had just started working on a tool to do that since all I want is to have natural scrolling on my trackpad but regular scrolling on my mouse. Will have to take a look if this goes with the a11y route or the custom driver path.<p>Edit: looks like this modifies CGEvent
Does anyone know of a tool that can emulate the pointer inertia you'd find with a trackball, but on a trackpad? This way, you could 'launch' the pointer across the screen. As a long-time trackball user, I believe this feature would be incredibly useful.
I'm using <a href="https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser">https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser</a> for years for that purpose and I'm very happy with it!
I've kept a minimized macos preference window open for months now so that I can switch the mode when I'm on the go. This app takes care of that one use case pretty well and just made my life slightly better.
Apple's idea of "natural scrolling direction" is insane.
Scrolling with a touchpad and scrolling with with a mouse wheel are simply different things - the natural direction is simply different for both.
Interesting. I just got finished working on some JavaScript to auto detect two-finger trackpad scroll vs a physical mousewheel and wondered why this kind of thing isn’t built into the OS.
I'm still using Logitech Options+ when I dock my MacBook Air into my big screen and use an MX Anywhere. Last I checked, none of these utilities enable click-and-hold to pan.
I've been using "Scroll Reverser" for years to let me have Natural Scrolling on my trackpad but not my mouse. I'll have to check this out as an alternative.
would be great if it also offered middle-click emulation like other utilities do for those cross-platform programs that think everyone has a three-button mouse