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Re: Mac Mouse Fix

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Post by djhn »

leidenfrost wrote: post #27
jzelinskie wrote: post #20

It looks like this competes with Mos.app[0]. Honestly, I'm not sure how folks use non-magic mice without this. If you use macOS on a desk setup, I still recommend the magic trackpad over everything else; macOS is just designed around trackpads. It might not be the best for ergonomics, but if that's your concern and you work as a programmer, you should just optimize your workflows around the keyboard instead of the mo…

Totally unrelated, but since we are talking about QOL tools on macOS, i thoroughly recommend BetterDisplay[0] It enables reting scaling functionality on any external monitor, regardless of the resolution or the Apple compatibility. It's great for 2k monitors that are totally hiDPI but are not deemed enough by Apple, and even for FHD secondarh displays that don't need that much display real state so you can use that r…

Are you currently using a 2k monitor that is somewhat hiDPI? I'm looking for a small secondary external monitor. Any recommendations?

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

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Post by graftak »

djhn wrote: post #41
leidenfrost wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally unrelated, but since we are talking about QOL tools on macOS, i thoroughly recommend BetterDisplay[0] It enables reting scaling functionality on any external monitor, regardless of the resolution or the Apple compatibility. It's great for 2k monitors that are totally hiDPI but are not deemed enough by Apple, and even for FHD secondarh displays that don't need that much display real state so you can use that r…

Are you currently using a 2k monitor that is somewhat hiDPI? I'm looking for a small secondary external monitor. Any recommendations?

If you’re a mac shop I recommend the LG ultrafine 4K. It’s the only 24" 4K display so you get 186 ppi. It has thunderbolt, display port and 85w power over usb c, with a few additional ports on the back. It also integrates with macOS brightness/volume keys.

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

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Post by jwells89 »

droopyEyelids wrote: post #38
rcme wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried using the magic trackpad. I liked it a lot, but something about how I held my pinky and ring finger kind of "tucked in" eventually lead to pain and I had to switch.

Most of my RSI seemed to be from having my arms too far apart or something, and I fixed that by dropping my mouse and getting one of the 60% apple keyboards and sticking a trackpad onto it with this https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-South-MagicBridge-Extended-Con... Not really responding to your comment except as a jumping off point for an ergonomics discussion

I've been using 60%/65% keyboards for almost a decade now, usually something with an HHKB layout, and yeah it's amazing how much of an improvement it is to not have to keep your mousing arm pushed so far out if you want your alpha cluster centered. The comfort improvement is significant.

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

#45

Post by nvy »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #14

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Try it. Apple M-series laptops are by far the superior hardware on the market today.

TFA is about using a non-Apple mouse (because Apple mice are touch sensitive so you can do gestures on the mouse's surface).

The OS itself is a certified Unix with a proprietary layer on top. Honestly after years of using Linux I'm fine with that, because using Linux on an old Thinkpad might be fun but the UX is sub-par. Maybe next year will be the year of the Linux desktop but until then I've got better things to do than tweak my KDE config or wonder why wifi doesn't work after a suspend-resume.

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

#46

Post by ulkesh »

grishka wrote: post #21
guidedlight wrote: post #11

This website really struggles to define the problem, it goes straight into the solution. If I have a Magic Mouse do I need this?

Definitely not. This is intended for those "gaming" PC mice with extra buttons. I tried it with mine (I normally use a magic trackpad but sometimes, rarely, I need a real mouse) and it works really nice. The only thing I'm missing is horizontal scrolling but I have no idea how to fit it in there. edit: it can scroll horizontally if you hold shift while scrolling

That is just normally how it works, at least in a browser, has nothing to do with this app.

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

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Post by alpaca128 »

joelkesler wrote: post #2

It looks cool, but there is no screenshot or video of the settings you can configure. The videos show only the effects (scrolling, etc) and not how you can use your mouse or set it up to do it.

I just installed it, here's what I can set: bindings for the middle mouse button (click/hold/double click/click and drag), for clicking mouse buttons 4 and 5, smooth scrolling on/off, scroll speed, and (the reason I installed it): you can invert the scrolling direction just for the mouse.

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

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Post by j_crick »

Our_Benefactors wrote: post #16

I use steerMouse for this. I think the license was $8 and its lifetime for multiple machines, money well spent.

And it supports lots of stuff and just seamlessly works in the background. And it has neat detailed options for custom shortcuts on any buttons and scrolling tweaking. It helped me a lot with many mice setups along the years.

New license is 19.99$ nowadays though. Still worth it imo!

https://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

#49

Post by alpaca128 »

guidedlight wrote: post #11

This website really struggles to define the problem, it goes straight into the solution. If I have a Magic Mouse do I need this?

No, it's for any mouse with a middle button. Or if you happen to use both the touchpad and a mouse, like maybe on a Macbook, in which case you can actually set the scrolling direction for trackpad and mouse separately - which is otherwise not possible, really annoying.

Re: Mac Mouse Fix

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Post by seanp2k2 »

leidenfrost wrote: post #22
notepalf wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great hardware held back by its software

It's not "bad". It's that it's very opinionated towards its real target: Designers, "high level" developers (e.g. web), and office 365 users. Of course it won't do the trick if you want to do something like linux or bsd development

MacBook Pros definitely “do the trick” for hundreds of thousands of us software developers in Silicon Valley every day. Docker works fine on M1 MBPs and it’s not much of a chore to target amd64 with a Dockerfile eg

    FROM --platform=linux/amd64 python:3.7-alpine
Plenty of the software that runs the internet is written, compiled, and tested on MacBooks, even if it may get rebuilt for production on some x86_64 server or AWS instance (possibly even an ARM-based Graviton instance).

I agree that MacBooks have gotten less “pro” and now seem to cater to college kids who probably don’t need them more than they do to folks like Digital Imaging Technicians working on movie sets, but they’re still quite popular for the latter, even if some level of Windows and Linux machines have started taking up some of the roles (especially for things like VFX, see eg https://vfxplatform.com/ ) and sound and music recording / production / editing (plus Windows has had Cubase for a very long time, and before that, plenty of studios had Cubase for the Atari 520ST and Atari 1040ST back in the late 80s).

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