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LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS

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Re: LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS

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Post by vladvasiliu »

jagger27 wrote: post #16
Jare wrote: post #5

I have to try this. I already have a reverser (how on earth is this not the default, and not even an OS option to begin with?!?) but scrolling with the wheel on a usb mouse jumps randomly. Crossing fingers this may help there.

You have always been able to reverse the scroll direction in the Mouse/Trackpad options. It’s a checkbox that says “Scroll direction: Natural”. As for your jumping issue that sounds like a hardware problem. It might just be that your mouse wheel is dirty.

> You have always been able to reverse the scroll direction in the Mouse/Trackpad options. It’s a checkbox that says “Scroll direction: Natural”.

Yes, but, for some reason, changing this to the old direction breaks the volume / backlight in the menu drop-down panel.

Which is clearly a bug because:

Scrolling up / down always changes the volume the same way: down is lower.

But if "natural" is unchecked (so scrolling down moves content up) then scrolling left moves the volume control to the right. If "natural" is checked, then scrolling left moves the control to the left.

This behaviour has been broken at least since they introduced the horizontal volume panel, not sure which version that was. Not sure how it worked before, because it had never occurred to me to scroll sideways on a vertical control.

Re: LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS

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Post by ggrelet »

speedgoose wrote: post #17

Since the discussion is about making MacOS more usable, do you have something to recommend to switch between windows and not applications using command+tab, and to have a dock that shows all the windows easily, grouped per application. Because the default MacOS windows manager is really crappy when you have more than one window of the same application. I would also enjoy a maximize button that does maximize the windo…

I’d recommend alt-tab-macos [0]. It’s FOSS!

[0] https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Re: LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS

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Post by fatboy »

monkpit wrote: post #60
fatboy wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree the window maximising is frustrating in macOS. I use what used to be Spectacle and is now Rectangle to bind a "real" fullscreeen commmand to a key combo. The way the default behaviour creates a new space makes me think that no one in Cupertino uses a second monitor because that behaviour simply does not work if you do.

I just downloaded Spectacle a few days ago. Should I be using Rectangle?

I believe that's the case yes, although I only learned of it the other day and haven't got round to switching yet.

Spectacle is now unsupported and Rectangle is a community fork.

Re: LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS

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Post by lujjjh »

deagle50 wrote: post #2

This is great. Scroll Reverser + scroll acceleration fix in one app. If you can also figure out cursor acceleration, you'll have a hit. The only app that correctly disables cursor acceleration is SteelSeries ExactMouse.

Thanks for your suggestion. I've released a new version which could disable cursor acceleration as well.

Re: LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS

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Post by xodice »

sitzkrieg wrote: post #7

isnt it kind of ridiculous that these apps have to exist because usable input isnt high on apple's list? like paying fir window snapping is one thing, but non wacky input.. ugh

HID (be it my mouse or trackpad, on either my Mac mini or MacBook) input works excellent on my Mac's. Nothing wrong here.

Not working how you prefer it doesn't make something unusable or broken...

BTW your supposed Mac mini has serious hardware problems, get that thing RMA'd ASAP! And man, why did you not RMA your MacBook Pro you bought a few years ago?? It was also just as broke!

Re: LinearMouse – A minimal app to get rid of scrolling acceleration on macOS

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Post by atoav »

albertzeyer wrote: post #55

Funny: I implemented the opposite: A minimal app to increase the scroll acceleration, and also enable scroll acceleration on Linux and Windows. https://github.com/albertz/mouse-scroll-wheel-acceleration-u... I really missed scroll acceleration when switching over from Mac to Linux. Scrolling long web pages or big source code files was so annoying. And just increasing the scroll speed is also not useful, as I still wa…

I have a scroll wheel with a fly wheel so I just push it hard and break it once I am there.
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