SteerMouse

If you need to adjust cursor speed and want scroll behavior to differ between the TrackPad and a mouse, then I can vouch for LinearMouse [1]. It is free of charge and open-source, and perfectly covers my needs.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linearmouse&#x2F;linearmouse">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;linearmouse&#x2F;linearmouse</a>

I’ve been using it for many years, I think it’s one of the oldest alternative mouse driver for Mac. Highly recommended to those who want to avoid the bloated (and now AI powered, for whatever it means) Logitech software.

I just wanted to also suggest BetterMouse (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;better-mouse.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;better-mouse.com</a>). SteerMouse is great, but it lacks the ability to map gestures to the thumb button on the MX Master mice. BetterMouse allows you to do that and has a UI thats a bit more understandable.

Great piece of software, used it for years. It’s great knowing you can buy any mouse with whatever buttons and you can make it work just how you want.

Until moving to Windows, this made my mouse on macOS bearable. Removed all accel with 1600 sens so that when I went from macOS for work to Windows for gaming back to macOS for work, I wouldn&#x27;t lose my mind. Nowadays I just stick to Windows because WSL2 is pretty rad. But SteerMouse saved my sanity for quite a few years.

Amazing piece of software. This is what software should be: useful, super fast and gets out of the way. These days software is so needy and slow. Looking at you Slack.

Never heard of it until DaringFireball mentioned the other day, which is presumably why it&#x27;s on HackerNews today. Neat tool. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;hackett-logitech-mouse-driver" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;daringfireball.net&#x2F;linked&#x2F;2024&#x2F;05&#x2F;06&#x2F;hackett-logitec...</a>

I&#x27;m a very happy user of SteerMouse for years now. The logitech app was very unstable (and increasingly bloated) to just be able to customize a couple of things for the MX Master 3.<p>SteerMouse does all that, is hidden away in preferences where it belongs, and It Just Works™

I love the style of this website&#x27;s content and layout. Informative, straight to the point, pleasant to look at.

I&#x27;m a happy SteerMouse user, but it should be noted that if all you want to do is flatten out the Acceleration curve then the native System Settings since macOS Sonoma let you disable acceleration.

As a data point, I use Keyboard Maestro for my extra Logitech mouse buttons, since I refuse to install the terrible Logi software.

Question that is tangential, does a piece of software exist on windows that causes scrolling to act like it does on mac? I have a wheel mouse and I want to be able to flick it and have the page continue scrolling when the wheel is no longer in motion. Momentum to scrolling basically.

Reminds me of USB Overdrive, a very nice piece of software that also covers e.g gamepads.<p>Got a license back in the day to make some mouse that had a strange always-down button 14 behave.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usboverdrive.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.usboverdrive.com&#x2F;</a>

I used it for a long time until I got a Logitech mouse.<p>Sadly, using GHUB is the only way to increase the USB polling rate to over 125hz, which is a must have for any display, much less a high refresh rate one. The difference is night and day.

Does anyone know of a tool similar to SteerMouse that let&#x27;s you control Logitech keyboard settings (e.g., turn off the backlight)? It&#x27;s the only reason I still have the Logitech software installed.

mmm, $20 for the privilege of re-binding your mouse buttons! I sure do love the Apple software community!<p>(there are _so_ many ways to do this on Windows for free.)

I have used SteerMouse for years after giving up on the dumpster fire that is Logitech&#x27;s G-HUB for macOS for my G600, which has 12 side buttons + a the G-Shift button which when held acts a modifier for additional macros.<p>My issue with SteerMouse is that when creating chord macros, it forces the original macro to only work when depressed, rather than activating upon press.<p>I haven&#x27;t been able to find a suitable replacement. Curious if anyone here on HN has worked around this in any way?

Informative, straight to the point, pleasant to look at.