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Does anyone know of a top-secret highly-experimental method to turn off the scrollwheel acceleration? I found the way to do it for the mouse pointer itself (defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1), but I have yet to find a way that works to do the same for scrolling. The acceleration may make sense for the trackpad, but it's very annoying on a mouse. Yes, I found the scrolling speed slider in System Preferences, but all that does is limit the speed at the top of the curve. I want there to be no curve at all. I just want each click up or down on the scrollwheel to mean x lines up or down. Just like every other computer on the planet. There has GOT to be a way to do this.
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Wild EEPROM posted:Steermouse Holy crap THANK you. That scratches my last UI itch. So, by using a combination of Steermouse to fix the scroll wheel and Smoothmouse to fix the pointer, plus a custom DefaultKeyBinding to fix the Home and End keys and a custom NSDragAndDropTextDelay to get rid of the (downright dangerous) drag-and-drop of selected text... I can finally use this new Macbook without wanting to hurl it off a bridge. It's actually rather nice. 
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Feb 13, 2015 06:32
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unclenutzzy posted:I don't necessarily need to use the command line, it's just to expand my skillset. I only have a few years doing help desk, but I enjoy batch and PowerShell scripting so I was hoping I'd be able to do stuff with the Terminal and possibly get into a Unix sysadmin position down the road. I'm really just looking for ways off of the help desk and I thought maybe I could turn OS X server management into Unix experience. If that's not reasonable I need to know before I invest much time outside of work learning and studying it. If you're hoping to be a unix sysadmin, you most definitely do need to get comfortable on a command line. Some of the OSX Server things you learn will carry over to general Unix / Linux knowledge, but some of it will be Apple-specific. It might be hard to tell the difference if you're concentrating purely on OSX stuff and not also hacking around in Linux. By all means, take all the Apple training your work will give you, but if you want to get out of Apple at some point, start teaching yourself other systems too. A great (and pretty cheap) way to get started in Linux is to get yourself a Raspberry Pi and make it into some cool little projects. There are a zillion how-to guides out there to get you going, and they'll teach you enough to start improvising your own ideas. Linux thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2389159 Pi thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3468084
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Mar 23, 2015 23:50
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Silly but quick question: does MacOS have a way to execute a one-shot CLI command without opening a terminal window? Something similar to Win-R in Windows, or Alt-F2 in most Linuxes. It seems a little silly to leave an entire terminal tab open just to sit there on my "firefox -p OtherProfileName" command, for example.
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Sep 28, 2019 00:18
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japtor posted:I can't think of anything by default to do that, but I feel like it'd be trivial to make something like that Automator or something. Hell I just did. Make an app and stick this in: Big thanks, got partway there on this track but I'm running into problems involving the execution path, aliases, and other local things like that. I'll just look into one of those spotlight extensions. Thanks again.
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Sep 28, 2019 05:31
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Last Chance posted:if you make a text file called firefox.command, drop in your firefox -p "profile" thing into it, and make sure it has execution privileges you can just link that .command file to your dock or make a shortcut or soemthing and spotlight will also pick it up. Thanks, but the trouble with that is I'm not always running the same thing.
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Sep 28, 2019 06:05
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Jose Oquendo posted:Who even needs email. Set up a rule to send it all to your trash. If someone emails you something important, they'll call in a few days. I'll just Slack it to you, that's so much better than email for some reason. 
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Oct 25, 2019 19:46
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I'm hitting an annoying little feature of some sort with the trackpad on the new MacBook I got for work. Google is failing me, but maybe someone here will know what this is and how to turn it off or at least avoid it. Sometimes, when I want to switch focus to a different window, I'll move the pointer to the one I want and tap the touchpad, and the current active window instantly jumps on top of it to that point, exactly as if I had dragged its titlebar there. This only happens occasionally, but often enough to be irritating. I'm not aware of anything I'm doing differently with that particular mouse move, and I've never been able to make it happen on purpose by trying to do odd things. This only happens with the touchpad; an external plug-in mouse always works as expected. In System Preferences -> Touchpad, I've turned off all the gesture crap by unchecking everything in all three sections except tap-to-click and two-finger secondary click, but there's still something in there that thinks I want to move the active window and helpfully does so for me. Anyone have any idea what this might be?
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May 24, 2022 18:15
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Hammerite posted:The real question I have is, if we do get her back into her account, what's the best way to help her avoid this situation in future? I don't want to be their tech support on an ongoing basis, so I don't want to end up being the person who always sorts it all out for them. I am doing it on this occasion because I feel sorry for them because they lost their son. I want to get them into a position where they don't need me to help them out with this. Don't over-complicate it. When/if they're able to reset the password, have them write it down and keep it in a safe place. My parents' "password manager" is a recipe box on the computer desk. Each account gets a 3x5 card with all its info written out in pencil. This has potential drawbacks (e.g. fire, burglary) but for older people who are still, after all these years, not terribly confident working the computermajig, it works extremely well.
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Jun 9, 2022 19:42
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I paid for Steermouse like 8 or 10 years ago and I've been happily using it ever since to simply turn off the acceleration on both the scrollwheel and the pointer. Does macmousefix cover that case nowadays?
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Feb 28, 2024 21:32
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I've had a 24" M1 iMac for two years now and I barely use it. Every time I try to force myself to use it I get hung on on one thing: the loving mouse pointer control in macOS sucks absolute poo poo. Steermouse. It's 20 bucks, which is a little ridiculous for something that should have just been a few settings in the OS to start with, but it does exactly what you're asking for here and does it well. I've been using it happily for years.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I'll give this a shot since it has a free trial, but I've tried a few recommended github programs that I can't recall the name of that look just like this with the same options. The newest Logi Options+ combined with the MX Anywhere 3S (a very good mouse though a little overpriced) also more or less does this. There's a Steermouse setting for exactly that. I use it myself, and it's the only thing I've found that actually works and doesn't run into the problems you describe. 
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