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1. STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES DRIVER
2. STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES FULL
3. STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES SOFTWARE
4. STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES CODE
5. STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES PROFESSIONAL

It boils down to two options: “bite the bullet” (use Apple’s buggy API and hope for the best) - or - reengineer SmoothMouse from the ground up (i.e.And for this very reason SteerMouse still works in Sierra and SmoothMouse doesn’t. When I emailed SteerMouse developers back in 2010 (before SM began) about the pointer lag, they were like “what are you talking about? We’re not doing this!” Of course, they could not do what I wanted.

STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES DRIVER

SmoothMouse didn’t tweak the default driver of macOS like SteerMouse or USB Overdrive, it took its place instead. Under the hood, SmoothMouse is very different to all other 3rd party mouse drivers, because it was designed for a different purpose.Apple has fixed the 16ms lag in El Capitan (and Sierra). You don’t need SmoothMouse anymore if you use SmoothMouse only to fix the lag.It’s simply difficult to learn something when the outcome of your actions is delayed. On a slightly unrelated note, I strongly believe that many people didn’t realize the reason for their discomfort from using a mouse with macOS wasn’t the quirky acceleration algorithm per se, but the input lag which made the algorithm a lot harder to get used to.For many years it had been lagging for 16 milliseconds compared to Windows, and SmoothMouse was the only solution to this problem. Yes, the lag of 16ms may be noticeable by the human eye when combined with the display lag. The top priority was to improve the response time of the mouse pointer in macOS. SmoothMouse wasn’t created only to “fix acceleration”. It wasn’t our top priority back in the day.We filed a bug report in 2014 (#21909158), emailed various Apple employees including Craig Federighi, without any results. Of course, we knew about those problems, but we couldn’t fix them, because they were all caused by a serious bug within IOHID. “IOHID” (deprecated in Sierra) had a lot of problems too, but performance was not one of them. Quite possible you’ve seen SmoothMouse causing crazy things to happen in Steam games or while in Screen Zoom mode-when you pressed a mouse button.

STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES PROFESSIONAL

To our surprise, those weren’t only games, but also a plethora of professional applications like Ableton, Traktor, Cinema4D etc. The second worst problem was that it didn’t work well with the applications that needed to take control of the mouse pointer. CGEventPost would make SmoothMouse skip movements when your computer was doing graphically intensive calculations.

STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES FULL

STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES CODE

To see how this works in detail, check out the Mac Mouse Fix source code GitHub. For example when you Hold Command (⌘) and scroll at the same time, Mac Mouse Fix will capture this input and transform it into 'Zoom in' or 'Zoom out' instructions for your computer. This lets Mac Mouse Fix take these inputs and transform them into something more useful. Mac Mouse Fix uses these special privileges to capture input from your mouse as well as some keyboard modifiers. Why does Mac Mouse Fix need Accessibility Access? To get rid of all residue I recommend the awesome AppCleaner by FreeMacSoft. However, macOS might have created more Mac Mouse Fix related files automatically. Mac Mouse Fix will then delete all files which it created on your system. Mac Mouse Fix is compatible with macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later. Which macOS version do I need to run Mac Mouse Fix? Mac Mouse Fix makes your third party mouse better! But it has no effect on Apple's Magic Mouse. Is Mac Mouse Fix compatible with the Apple Magic Mouse? I used this to see how many times the site was visited and how many times the download button was clicked. This Website used to use Hotjar which I chose as a more privacy focused alternative to Google Analytics. I can't retrieve any information about that however. If you have automatic updates turned on, Mac Mouse Fix will ping Github's servers every time you launch the app to ask for an update. Mac Mouse Fix does not have ads and it doesn't track any information about you. So I decided to build my own - 100% free - solution.Īt some point I started working on a smooth scrolling algorithm for fun and it led me to the idea of tackling all the most common problems which Mac users have with their mice in one neat little package.ĭoes Mac Mouse Fix track your information?

STEERMOUSE ALTERNATIVES SOFTWARE

I found some great software like Steer Mouse and BetterTouchTool, but none of it was free. I was looking for an easy way to use Spaces and Mission Control from my mouse. Questions Why Mac Mouse Fix? There are already apps for smooth scrolling and remapping mouse buttons.