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An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by troupo »

firecall wrote: post #120

Unpopular opinion, but I like the Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard! I try other Mouses but always return to the Apple products. Trying to get other Mouses to have the same acceleration and tracking as you he Magic Mouse eludes me! 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. Adding a TouchID sensor to…

The only problems I had with magic mouse:

- you can't rest your fingers on it. When you use it, you have to keep your finger(s) raised

- if an app/game uses middle button, you can't use that

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by troupo »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #46
tambourine_man wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's tiring to read almost everyday on HN: “the amount of work required to make this circle into a square is ridiculous”. Some of us enjoy circles. Use whatever you like, but complaining A is not B is annoying.

No one is complaining A is not B. Everyone is complaining that macOS lacks some fairly basic UX options and is being neglected by Apple which corrects these flaws at a glacial pace.

> Everyone is complaining that macOS lacks some fairly basic UX options

What you call "basic UX options" are highly opinionated personal views. I've used Macs since 2007 and haven't used a single one of the dozen or so "basic UX" tools people listed in the discussion.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by bluSCALE4 »

oidar wrote: post #97
bluSCALE4 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use SizeUp which gives keyboard shortcuts for what Win key + arrow keys accomplishes. There's probably something better but I'm used to it.

There is an open source version of this Rectangle. https://rectangleapp.com

Thanks, prefer this much more to SizeUp.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by yoyopa »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #73

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. 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.

don't know if it's unpopular but for me I am hypersensitive to changes between mac and windows and using a mouse on the mac drives me insane

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by ris58h »

ahstilde wrote: post #9
idle_zealot wrote: post #5

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.

what are your other mandatory installs?

- MiddleClick to middle click with 3 fingers.

- Touch-Tab to switch apps with 3 fingers.

Both are free and open source.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by Joeri »

firecall wrote: post #120

Unpopular opinion, but I like the Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard! I try other Mouses but always return to the Apple products. Trying to get other Mouses to have the same acceleration and tracking as you he Magic Mouse eludes me! 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. Adding a TouchID sensor to…

The magic keyboard is ok. The layout is subpar and it lacks a tiny bit of travel for a thin-style keyboard (.2 mm extra would do it I think), but overall it is nicely built, reliable and easy to clean. Going to that from a thinkpad keyboard was a bit rough though. I wonder if people who love it have ever used a good keyboard.

The magic mouse is the worst mouse I have used so far, precisely because of the touch area. I tried for a while to adapt to it and developed severe RSI. I event went through the “I must be holding it wrong” pattern like the apple fanboy I am, to no avail. I suspect it comes down to me having the wrong shape of hand. Luckily logitech makes some excellent mice, and I can map the thumb buttons to the gestures I used most on the magic mouse.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by fatboy »

idle_zealot wrote: post #117
ahstilde wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what are your other mandatory installs?

- Karabiner-Elements, primarily to map caps lock to ctrl when pressed with other keys and escape when pressed alone, although I also like to bind right command + asdfhjkl to cursor movement keys home pgdown pgup end left down up right respectively. - yabai/skhd for window management - brew/mas for package management - linearmouse to disable cursor acceleration, scroll acceleration, and inverted scroll direction for m…

Could you post that script somewhere for us? I'd be interested to see if there are annoyances I'm just living with in there.

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by mike31fr »

donatj wrote: post #67

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.

Same for me, long time user of https://github.com/pilotmoon/Scroll-Reverser Just curious, when you have a tool that does such a precise small single task, and does it perfectly, why would you bother installing an alternative? What I thought when reading this post was more like "I already have a perfect solution, I don't need another perfect solution", so just curious if you think I'm missing something by thinking like this?

Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac

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Post by prometheon1 »

0x0 wrote: post #22
lode wrote: post #8

This is what I've been looking for for such a long time. The maximum speed that can be configured using the built in tools for both mouse and trackpad is way too slow for my liking. 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.

I ended up having to pay(!) to re-enable middle clicking after magicprefs stopped working at some point in the macos upgrade race. I bought this. https://middleclick.app/

Not sure if it's the exact same app, but this one works as well:

https://github.com/artginzburg/MiddleClick-Ventura

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