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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 hoistbypetard »

taude wrote: post #85
thesuitonym wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the OP, but for one thing, natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse users, it was designed for touch screens, and translates pretty well to trackpads (Although it broke with over a decade of user experience), but it's completely unnatural on a mouse. Unfortunately, if you're a user who switches between a mouse and the trackpad, Mac OS only let's you pick one.

you can override natural scrolling in default OS X System settings, though.

Not per-device. I like "natural scrolling" on my trackpads, but dislike it with mouse wheels. It's a PITA to visit system settings every time I switch; I've been low-key looking for something like this for some time.

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

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Post by thehigherlife »

billbrown wrote: post #82
ahstilde wrote: post #9

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what are your other mandatory installs?

Alfred, Karabiner-Elements (for the hyper key functionality), Shortcat, TextSniper, Moom, Sublime Text, iTerm 2, my .bash_profile. These are all apps for which I have long-standing muscle memory. If I use a new computer, I'm still pressing the keys but nothing happens and I have to remember how to do the things the normal way.

Never heard of Shortcat before, it reminds me of that vim shortcut that used to be popular for firefox back in the day. I can see how that would be really powerful.

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

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Post by bluSCALE4 »

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?

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.

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

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Post by karmakaze »

frou_dh wrote: post #30
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.

Funnily enough, they've just added a toggle to disable pointer acceleration in this year's macOS Sonoma: https://i.redd.it/rezxi3gfwf4b1.png

Wow, I can play StarCraft2 (non-competitively) on the Mac now.

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

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Post by ayemel »

tredre3 wrote: post #66
ayemel wrote: post #26

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On the flip side, this is exactly how I feel with Windows in order to get the base OS usable.

Windows (without additional utilities) allows you to disable mouse acceleration, change scrolling direction, change scrolling speed, and even invert buttons. Sure MacOS' stock behavior might be fine for you, but that's a different conversation, we're talking about giving the user choice without resorting to hacks here.

> Windows allows you to…change scrolling direction

Within the last 5 years this wasn’t always the case since that’s when I last setup a Windows machine and this definitely was not a setting and I had to edit the registry. Trust me that was not my first choice—I would have much rather used a setting like you can on macOS for scroll direction.

Of course that’s not to say macOS is perfect either. Sounds like they are just now getting around to adding a setting for mouse acceleration. Now, this has always been possible with a “simple” (when compared to the multiple registry edits I had to do on Windows) terminal command—no need to resort to a an additional utility as you imply. Obviously both of these “hacks” as you say are not anything regular consumers are going to be able to do.

With all that said, macOS is closer aligned to how I would do an OS “out of the box”.

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

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Post by oidar »

bluSCALE4 wrote: post #93
ahstilde wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what are your other mandatory installs?

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

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

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Post by ktosobcy »

thesuitonym wrote: post #40
jonny_eh wrote: post #23

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> 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.

Not the OP, but for one thing, natural scrolling is just an awful idea for mouse users, it was designed for touch screens, and translates pretty well to trackpads (Although it broke with over a decade of user experience), but it's completely unnatural on a mouse. Unfortunately, if you're a user who switches between a mouse and the trackpad, Mac OS only let's you pick one.

Why would you need a mouse when using macOS trackpads? Before switching to MBP (about 10 years ago) I couldn't fathom using trackpad but then after a couple of days of usage I was so hooked up and it _felt_ so natural than I can't imagine using mouse nowadays...
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