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Re: SteerMouse

#21

Post by zavertnik »

I have used SteerMouse for years after giving up on the dumpster fire that is Logitech'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.

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.

I haven't been able to find a suitable replacement. Curious if anyone here on HN has worked around this in any way?

Re: SteerMouse

#22

Post by atonse »

I'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.

SteerMouse does all that, is hidden away in preferences where it belongs, and It Just Works™

Re: SteerMouse

#23

Post by stronglikedan »

atonse wrote: post #22

I'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. SteerMouse does all that, is hidden away in preferences where it belongs, and It Just Works™

Do you still get hyperscrolling without the logitech software?

Re: SteerMouse

#24

Post by chankstein38 »

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.

Re: SteerMouse

#26

Post by baxuz »

I used it for a long time until I got a Logitech mouse.

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.

Re: SteerMouse

#27

Post by kstrauser »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #15
rcoilliot wrote: post #2

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.

Does it work with the additional buttons on logi mice?

It does on my MX Vertical. It also lets you set different actions per app. I've used that to bind the forward and backward buttons to do the right thing in most apps I touch so I have a universal shortcut for that navigation.

Re: SteerMouse

#28

Post by daed »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #13

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.

To add to this: I bought a Steermouse license well over a decade ago. I paid once. I’ve been using it ever since and it’s maintained and updated. No subscription. Isn’t charging for updates. This is what software should be.

Re: SteerMouse

#29

Post by kstrauser »

zavertnik wrote: post #21

I have used SteerMouse for years after giving up on the dumpster fire that is Logitech'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. 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. I haven't been able to find a suitable repla…

Can you explain more of what you mean there?

Re: SteerMouse

#30

Post by kstrauser »

atonse wrote: post #22

I'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. SteerMouse does all that, is hidden away in preferences where it belongs, and It Just Works™

It's a separate app now and doesn't live in preferences anymore.
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