A minimal app to get rid of mouse acceleration on macOS.
You can download pre-compiled binaries from Releases.
Xcode is required.
$ make
I installed the application and the mouse acceleration and sensitivity settings have no effect. I tried restarting my computer, and toggling the accessibility settings of the app.
help wantedThis error keeps popping up at start up and when attempting to make a change. I am the only user on this mac. M1 Mac book pro.
Any fixes or solutions?
thanks
Stale不知道是配置错误还是权限问题，查看文档没找到具体需要赋予哪些权限。
配置如下：
{
"$schema" : "https:\/\/app.linearmouse.org\/schema\/0.7.3",
"schemes" : [
{
"buttons" : {
"universalBackForward" : false,
"mappings" : [
{
"button" : 3,
"command" : true,
"action" : "missionControl.spaceLeft"
},
{
"button" : 4,
"command" : true,
"action" : "missionControl.spaceRight"
}
]
},
"if" : {
"device" : {
"productName" : "Wired Gaming Mouse",
"productID" : "0x2e",
"category" : "mouse",
"vendorID" : "0x258a"
}
},
"pointer" : {
"disableAcceleration" : true
},
"scrolling" : {
"reverse" : {
"vertical" : true
},
"distance" : "36px"
}
}
]
}
Hey lujjjh,
first of all I'd like to thank you for the great work you've been doing with LinearMouse, it has been a treat so far.
During a session LinearMouse starts working fine after sign-on. When I unplug and later replug my mouse (I use a USB-switch to use the same mouse between computers, effectively constituting a plug-cycle as far as I can tell), LinearMouse will sometimes not function properly and won't apply the set preferences. Plug-cycling the mouse again sometimes brings function back. When it works, it keeps working without intermittent failure, only plug-cycling triggers it.
I've found that when plug-cycling and NOT touching the mouse for a few seconds until I'm sure the device switch is completed, LinearMouse again tends to work more often than not. When moving the mouse during a plug-cycle, LinearMouse seems to work less often coming back. Might just be my imagination, though.
bugWhen restart the mac os and before start LinearMouse, My mouse moves very slowly. After start linear mouse application, Mouse speed is recovered as setting before turn off mac os.
Can you make automatically turn on LinearMouse and apply prior settings?
thank you
StaleA nice feature would be if it were possible to also set the mouse sensitivity from LinearMouse preferences, ideally beyond the range provided in System Preferences.
For some context, I had previously used the SteerMouse free trial and it had the ability to set both mouse sensitivity and acceleration values (i.e. acceleration was on a range too) independently. I personally don't care for supporting acceleration besides on/off, but I think setting linear mouse sensitivity would be a great add here!
I'd also like to commend this project; glad there's a FOSS alternative to all this paid software for what should (in my opinion) be a default feature in MacOS! Great stuff!
enhancementLinearMouse works great for mice but, with the introduction of Apple silicon, it is no longer possible to get a usable trackpad either.
CursorSense have found a way of disabling acceleration (and even modifying acceleration curves) for trackpads too (without intrusive methods such as system extensions to my knowledge) so there must be a way for linearmouse to do the same.
Other options like modifier buttons, fixed-width scroll etc. might also be useful.
Context: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/issues/46
Hi there! I feel like it'd be great if it also provides per-app settings, or even apple script definitions to programmatically edit the settings on the fly. Still, this is a great app! Thanks :D
enhancement StaleHello, I recently found this programm and was wondering how this specific feature to disable mouse acceleration works because it doesn't seem to use this command "defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling -integer -1" because its value always stays the same. It would be nice if someone could tell me. Im new to programming and my knowledge about Swift is basically zero so excuse me. Thanks!
When using linearmouse prior to recent updates, its settings seemed to activate immediately upon connecting my magic mouse to my MacBook Pro. After recent updates, however, there appears to be a delay of about 15-20 seconds before linearmouse adjusts my tracking speed and reduces pointer acceleration upon connecting my mouse.
One additional variable, however, is that I recently upgraded from an Intel to Apple silicon mac.
bug help wantedHi, love the app, thanks. The only issue I've seen so far is that trackpad scrolling inertia is disabled when the app is running. Closing the app restores trackpad scrolling inertia.
bug我是罗技Anywhere3鼠标，无极滚轮可以快速滚动，使用linearmouse和scrollreverser分别测试了反向线性滚动（速度调整成差不多），发现在多数程序中表现一样，但是某些程序里不如scrollreverser流畅，似乎有速度上限。例如在苹果的照片app中，还有PictureView中，下面是我录制的PictureView的两个软件的表现（照片app中表现类似）。
https://easyupload.io/o0sq2l
无极滚轮可以很快速地滚动，但linearmouse好像是反应有固定间隔一样，我无论再怎么加快滚动速度，都只能达到视频里那种上限，而且看起来还不流畅。linearmouse和scrollreverser在这部分的实现有什么不同吗？
I'm trying to change sensitivity for my m2 macbook air's trackpad, on Monterey 12.5.
On LinearMouse, I have set the acceleration to 0 (lowest) and the speed to 1 (highest), and that makes the trackpad very slow. I tried playing around with the settings. It feels like changing the speed has no effect on the speed of the cursor. The speed feels the same whether I'm at highest speed (1) or the lowest speed (0).
I notice when I check the "Disable pointer acceleration" box, the cursor becomes a bit faster. But it's still too slow and there's no way for me to adjust the speed with this box checked.
It seems that either the speed slider isn't working on my m2 macbook air, or the change is so small that I can't notice it.
In my Security & Privacy, I have given permissions to LinearMouse in the Accessibility section.
duplicateI'm wondering that can be happen? For example, when i'm using with 2 lines with google chrome, that's perfect. But same settings are slow on firefox. I should make it "3" for firefox but i don't wanna change each time.
Long story short, is that possible to make?
Running Monterey 12.6 on M2 Macbook Air
Linearmouse shows trackpad as "unknown" and will not auto-switch to trackpad when in use (even when auto-switch is checked).
Changing acceleration works but changing speed does nothing.
Console error logged as "Unable to serialize CFObject: Property list invalid for format: 200 (property lists cannot contain objects of type 'CFNull')" when changing settings.
Re-adding accessibility options does not work Re-installing does not work
help wantedI see from #121 and #242 that I am not the only person coming from Windows and trying to match the mouse acceleration curve. I will use this issue to provide some of my own research on the topic, and to plan a potential solution for this problem using LinearMouse, if you are interested!
The first important thing to highlight is that macOS and Windows use fundamentally different acceleration curves. This means that it is completely impossible to match them 1:1.
No official details are available, but according to this post, Windows uses a 5-point composite curve, like so:
In fact, the individual curves may not even be linear but exponential according to this post and its comments:
There are some very knowledgeable individuals over at RawAccel, who have developed their own Windows driver that allows custom acceleration curves at an OS level. One of their curves, the Natural Curve, is allegedly so close to the curve used by Windows, that it can be used as an effective substitute without noticing a difference. Maybe we can ask them for more details on the original curve and/or take their Natural Curve as our Windows baseline.
What about macOS? Information here is even more limited, but it apparently uses a single exponential curve, at least according to CursorSense:
So, it is clear that we need some sort of third-party solution to make macOS match the curve of Windows. I have a few ideas, which I will list below.
I actually started some experiments on solution 2. I programmed a Raspberry Pi Pico as a virtual mouse, and I wrote some scripts that will make the mouse move across the screen at different speeds, and then write down how much "physical movement" equals how much "actual movement". Then, I plot this and I get an accurate acceleration graph of both macOS and Windows. I need to run it for longer to get anything meaningful, but will post here once I do.
Well, this is my research so far. If anybody has further ideas, suggestions, or wants to help, please feel more than welcome to do so!
help wantedPlease add support for remapping side buttons to other functions. I used steermouse before to map button 4 and button 5 to scrolling up and down in browsers and other programs. I believe you could set how many lines it scrolled too in steermouse so they functionality in here would be amazing
Originally posted by @skareel in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/discussions/12#discussioncomment-3466126
Current supported actions:
https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/blob/main/Documentation/Configuration.md#action-sheet
enhancementFull Changelog: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/compare/v0.7.6-beta.1...v0.7.6-beta.2
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![[Feature Request] Per-app settings](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/61771609?v=4)
missionControl.spaceLeft and missionControl.spaceRight by @lujjjh in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/pull/216missionControl, appExpose, launchpad and showDesktop by @lujjjh in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/pull/217Full Changelog: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/compare/v0.7.2...v0.7.3
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Source code(tar.gz)missionControl, appExpose, launchpad and showDesktop by @lujjjh in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/pull/217Full Changelog: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/compare/v0.7.3-beta.1...v0.7.3-beta.2
Source code(tar.gz)spaceLeft and spaceRight by @lujjjh in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/pull/216Full Changelog: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/compare/v0.7.2...v0.7.3-beta.1
Source code(tar.gz)EventTap being disabled by accident by @lujjjh in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/pull/213Full Changelog: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/compare/v0.7.1...v0.7.2
Source code(tar.gz)EventTap being disabled by accident by @lujjjh in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/pull/213Full Changelog: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/compare/v0.7.2-beta.1...v0.7.2-beta.2
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Source code(tar.gz)auto by @lujjjh in https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/pull/192Full Changelog: https://github.com/linearmouse/linearmouse/compare/v0.7.1-beta.1...v0.7.1-beta.2
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Source code(tar.gz)Known issue: Crashes on macOS Catalina when opening the Preferences.
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