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To read its current value type. I found I had to log out and back in again for it to take effect.

To revert back to Apple default settings, just open the Mouse pane of System Preferences and change the Tracking Speed to anything, then quit System Preferences. Mac OS X stores mouse and trackpad settings independently. If you want to disable acceleration on a trackpad instead of a mouse, the instructions are the same, just replace with com.


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I won't cite a source, since this tip is available in many places on the web. I tried it in OS Listen now. Learn more. Asked 8 years, 6 months ago.

How to Disable Mouse Acceleration

Active 4 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 77k times. I want my solution to be as simple, universal and unintrusive as possible, so some criteria might be: Works on Snow Leopard Or maybe configurable? I suppose what you really want is to make cursor feel the same as in Windows with acceleration off.

SmoothCursor — Custom mouse and trackpad acceleration for Mac

In that case, the problem is bigger than just acceleration. Check d To bring it back on topic, I've just found this: forums3. It works great on my MacBook Air running Mavericks. Hey i made this tutorial about how to turn off mouse acceleration without using any programs [MAC]!

Mouse Acceleration for OS X

Stwarg View Profile View Posts. Per page: 15 30 Date Posted: 16 Jul, pm. Posts: 9. Start a New Discussion. Discussions Rules and Guidelines. Note: This is ONLY to be used to report spam, advertising, and problematic harassment, fighting, or rude posts. All rights reserved. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. None, and I repeat, none I've tried all of them of the available OS X mouse mods out there actually get your mouse to behave like it does on Windows.

Adjust mouse acceleration on a mac

They just get you a little closer. Furthermore, regardless of the acceleration curve, OS X has a defect that causes many mice to make erratic jumping movements apparently this is fixed in OSX Lion Synergy is not a great solution, but it is a solution. In particular you should not run it over wifi and instead use as direct of an ethernet connection as possible to reduce the latency.

As much as a perfectionist as Steve Jobs was, the cursor tracking on OS X unfortunately eluded his attention. The only solution is to actually use Windows, hence synergy. Try SteerMouse. Don't be put off by the slightly naff website, this is the best one I've found available for Lion. You can download a trial - definitely worth a purchase though. Just set the tracking speed to 0 and set the sensitivity to whatever feels normal for your mouse. I can quickly move the mouse between displays, but also do fine work with a setting of 3.

To use download mousefix. Then run it on the command line:. FYI, The binary download is mousefix. You may need to restart after installing the driver, for a total of 3 restarts 1 to disable SIP, 1 to get back into MacOS, 1 after driver is installed. I find that you also need to activate the Microsoft Mouse preference pane after the computer restarts. Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has attracted low-quality or spam answers that had to be removed, posting an answer now requires 10 reputation on this site the association bonus does not count.

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Mac Mouse Acceleration

Nice to see a free Mac app. Also tried steermouse but didn't find an ideal program for this to be honest. I think Apple really should copy the MS Windows acceleration algorithm. For some reason they thought it would be helpful to have this bizarre scheme in OS X.

Still, we are talking about a company that thinks the Mighty Mouse is a good idea - even most Mac fanatics hate that! This now works with Mac OSX