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.
An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
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Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
#142Somebody that used both magic keyboard+mouse and logitech mx keys + their mouse, what do you think?
Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
#143Unpopular 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
Can’t you configure a two finger click to register as “middle”?
Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
#144This 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.
> This is a mandatory install on macOS for me Would you mind expanding on that? I'm not sure what I'd improve about my touchpad experience on my Mac.
Much less all the things to make it useful.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse IMO there’s no objective reason why. Natural scrolling is not what a lot of people are used to with a mouse, but it’s perfectly usable and even more consistent if you’re using the Magic Mouse, which uses a touch surface instead of a mechanical wheel. I, for example, always make my Windows and Linux machine use natural scrolling like I’m used to from my Mac and my li…
Unlike for touch devices, it is no better or worse - but as scroll wheel operation already is incredibly well established, most already have an intuitive assumption of behavior and switching forcing the user to switch only annoys them. It is even part of our language: you "scroll down".
When I scroll down I’’m referring to the active window’s motion. Right now I couldn’t tell you what motion I use. I use a trackpad and mouse.
Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
#146Apple'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.
> natural direction is simply different for both That’s 100 % subjective. There’s not a single reason why sliding your finger on a mechanical movable surface should behave differently than sliding it on a touch sensitive surface. You’re used to it behaving differently and that’s fine, but I prefer to have the same behavior for both and neither of us is right or wrong.
Subjective or not, it definitely doesn't make sense to lock them together. If you change one, the other will also change. The fact that it doesn't allow me to have different settings for the mouse and trackpad doesn't make sense to me.
Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
#147Unpopular 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
> - you can't rest your fingers on it. When you use it, you have to keep your finger(s) raised
I rest my fingers on the surface all the time and it's fine?
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I'm also one of the dozen that like the Magic Mouse; in fact I have the first gen one that takes AA batteries, and it's still working perfectly. It's now the oldest mouse I've owned and used. Prior to it I think I had an early model of the wired optical IntelliMouse.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
You clearly missed the point of my comment, which is not to say that Windows should be Unix, but that the fact that it is not means that you probably should not be recommending it as a universal cure-all to people who probably use macOS for a reason. In other words, it only sounds "annoying" because you seem to not understand why people would use a Unix operating system, and why Windows is not a suitable substitute.…
I use a Mac, always have. My complaint is that people jump to criticize a way of working, saying it's unusable, when there are plenty of others that have enjoyed working this way for 40 years and are extremely productive that way. Perhaps question if your old habits don't apply in a new context? And just because it's a WIMP UI you shouldn't expect it to work exactly like your former? That it's a new paradigm, with di…
I see the comments the same way and half the time they seem misinformed. How many Mac users are looking to move windows with the keyboard because the mouse is too much of a burden.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
- 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.
Sure. It's definitely opinionated, but perhaps our opinions align!
https://gist.github.com/idle-z/7fc3d3950b02c441ab522a094e5f4...
Re: An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
#150This 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?
Easy Move+Resize for moving and resizing windows from anywhere in the window