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Magic Mouse Disable Scrolling Option For Mac
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Linh Swanick
Dec 21, 2023, 5:56:01 AM12/21/23
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With its wireless and multi-touch capabilities, the Apple Magic Mouse is quite magical indeed. That is until you dive deep into multi-page PDFs, large spreadsheets and other documents that require extra fine mouse control. The Magic Mouse can be sensitive and easily cause you to lose your place with the slightest movement. This can only lead to anger, frustration and lost time. Lets disable Magic Mouse scrolling once and for all.
Now you know how to disable Magic Mouse scrolling completely. However some people may want to disable only the horizontal scrolling and leave the vertical scrolling on. To do this you will have to use the Terminal. The Terminal application is located in your Applications/Utilities folder. Although not difficult to complete we would recommend for advanced users only.
Magic Mouse Disable Scrolling Option For Mac
Download File https://brasraverha.blogspot.com/?aqux=2wRSvj
I want to disable one finger scrolling with my Magic Mouse while I click with it, because I don't like that it scrolls the content in apps if I click something. I also don't see any practical use of letting this thing enabled.
Not sure whether the trail has gone cold on this one but I just wanted to vent my frustrations with this feature. To have the mouse control the scrolling down and across the pages is fine but as it is also 'dialling' up and down the object size in the Object Pallette in Illustrator is simply daft in my opinion!
The problem is that when I'm using my magic mouse, if I just accidentally brush my finger across my Magic mouse, then it would send my document into a random scroll that would slowly slow down until it stops. I would loose my ability to do anything until it stops and it was getting annoying.
YES! This totally fixed the problem for me! The rampant scrolling problem in Photoshop and Illustrator has been driving me nuts for years, I tried the 3rd party mouse tools and they just get outdated and stop working. I just never thought to look in the Accessibility panel but suspected maybe that was it. Now I can stop yelling at my screen every time I just accidentally even breathe on the mouse.
I bought a Magic mouse and Keyboard to go with my new Mac Mini - hmm think that was a mistake. Stuff magically moving in front of me - not sure if I will ever get used to this beast and I have been trying since Mid December...
I don't think the problem is the magic mouse. I have a magic mouse 1 and 2. When I use Illustrator I don't have the same problem. I think Illustrator has permanently turned down the fidelity though. Panning in Illustrator is not smooth, and it shifts in about 5px increments. However, my solution is to turn the panning fidelity down ONLY on mouse down (like Illustrator). Turn the fidelity back up on mouse up. I don't know if this is possible, but obviously this is not a big problem in Illustrator. I still love your product though.
I have used a magic mouse for years. For the most part it works great for me in all the apps I use including Illustrator and Photoshop. Still waiting for some maturity before jumping on board with my Affinity software.
The Problem is, that Affinity is far to sensitive. I think there should be an option to disable scrolling gestures while holding down the mouse button. Or even better only allow scrolling with a second finger.
alasdair - exactly. it was working fine in the Oct. '17 version, then I upgraded and lost the ability to horizontal scroll with a magic mouse. Sounds like it was the upgrade. balsamiq - is this a known issue?
Recently I started using tmux inside my terminal on my Mac. However now whenever I'm in a tmux session and I scroll up or down using my mouse, it scrolls through my command history instead of scrolling through my terminal pane. How do I disable this feature and make mouse scrolling go back to the default behavior?
What happened most likely is that you were, either locally or remotely, running a command (like vim, or top, or many programs that use libraries similar to ncurses) that uses the terminal's "alternate screen" mode. When this is active, many terminal programs helpfully remap the scrolling action on the mouse to arrow keys, because generally scrolling the local display is less than helpful. If this application terminated ungracefully, your terminal may still think it's in that mode.
The reason for this is probably that your terminal sends Up and Down keys for the mouse wheel when applications are in "cursor positioning mode" but do not request the mouse themselves, which is the case for tmux with the mouse option off.
As mentioned by Nicholas Marriott in a comment, a set-option -g mouse on line in your .tmux.conf will probablly do what you want. (Make sure you're using the latest tmux version.) This sets a global option that turns on mouse interactivity.
Edit > Preferences > General > "Zoom with Scroll Wheel" is checked, then the Alt + scroll is disabled. But when you uncheck the option of "Zoom with Scroll Wheel", then Alt + scroll is enabled.
I don't have a perfect solution, but if you install BetterTouchTool you can use it to deactivate option + vertical scrolling only in Illustrator. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a feature to restrict opt + horizontal scrolling in specific apps, but I find (at least personally) that most of my accidental scrolls are vertical, anyway.
Is it possible to disable the scroll wheel on my bluetooth mouse for my iMac? I remote desktop into a computer at work (windows xp) to run some mapping software (ArcGIS 10), and the mouse wheel controls the zoom level (scale) of the map. The only problem is the mouse wheel is extremely sensitive and is constantly zooming in and out of my map document. The document has a lot of data in it and when I'm working with large files this can cause long redraw times.
I've also noticed it does the same thing when using google maps in OS X, which is also very frustrating. It would be nice if there was some way to bind this option to a key command so I could enable/disable quickly as needed.
Use inertia when scrolling: Control what happens when you lift your finger from the mouse (a mouse such as a Magic Mouse). With this option turned on, scrolling comes to a gradual stop. Otherwise, scrolling stops immediately.
This tutorial will show you who to disable multitouch on Magic Mouse, and also how to re-enable multitouch on a Magic Mouse again if you change your mind and want the scrolling abilities back again.
Another option is to use a third party app like BetterTouchTool or MagicPrefs, which allows you to disable and enable specific gestures and Magic Mouse abilities through a little control panel like Mac app too.
I already have the "Swipe between pages" option turned off. What I mean is I don't want any horizontal movement at all from the mouse. When in a Finder window in list view, if I accidentally swipe a tiny bit to the left, the disclosure triangles disappear. Hard to control. I tried the terminal command but it does work. I guess it used to work prior to Sierra.
Gary, now that I input the command you suggested in Terminal, should I input another command to cancel it?
TOTALLY. THIS. ALL. THE. TIME. I don't want to disable mouse scrolling because I use finger scrolling to move around the canvas. I just want to stop messing up the numbers by accidental touch (daily occurrence), which impact my creative output. This is by far the most annoying and unsophisticated CC function that no illustrator user has asked for to begin with.
Currently any field that takes entry of numerical value can be adjusted by scrolling. However for those of us which have mouses with free-wheel or touch-style scrolling this tends to lead to accidental value adjustment.
An option in the preferences to disable to feature would be useful.
Definitely been an issue for at least a few years. Please provide an option to disable scrolling through all fields in Illustrator windows or no longer make this the default action when you hover your mouse about a field. Just the slightest movement of your index finger will start scrolling through numbers.
I can very much second this. Also very annoying with magic mouse, and especially annoying because illustrator doesn't consider the scroll as 1 action, so if i accidentally scroll over the stroke value i need to undo several times to go back to the original value.
Personally, I would also like to just be able to turn this feature off. It's not precise/smooth enough to be helpful in my mac and it's too easy to trigger unintentionally.
It would be nice if there was a preference to turn off what I've seen referred to as "hover scrolling" or when selected type or object is changed when the mouse rolls over a drop down menu. I was first going to report it as a bug, but apparently it's an actual feature.
I'm rolling out 10.15.6 this year and I'm finding the mouse scroll direction along with other .globalpreference settings seems to have moved. The only 2x settings that still worked for me were: 'Disable fast user switching' and 'enable or disable auto logout after 60 minutes'.
The right click works fine on every new 'standard' user account profile that gets created. (For some reason it doesn't apply to the default Admin account but works on every other account that gets created.)
I can't help you with the mouse scrolling unfortunatelly as I never got it working and ran out of time.
Hold on I take that back. Sorry, I was referring to the .GlobalPreferences file in the /Library/Preferences folder which confused me. I've just done a quick check with fsmonitor and the natural scrolling option under mouse settings does indeed refer to the .GlobalPreferences file located in the users profile. In that case do the same thing as the above example but do it for your scroll direction setting. I haven't tested this but it should work:
I use a magic mouse and I am constantly moving fader positions accidentally. It would be good if you could disable mouse scrolling for specific parameters, especially faders and mixer parameters like pan, send sliders etc.
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Now you know how to disable Magic Mouse scrolling completely. However some people may want to disable only the horizontal scrolling and leave the vertical scrolling on. To do this you will have to use the Terminal. The Terminal application is located in your Applications/Utilities folder. Although not difficult to complete we would recommend for advanced users only.
Magic Mouse Disable Scrolling Option For Mac
Download File https://brasraverha.blogspot.com/?aqux=2wRSvj
I want to disable one finger scrolling with my Magic Mouse while I click with it, because I don't like that it scrolls the content in apps if I click something. I also don't see any practical use of letting this thing enabled.
Not sure whether the trail has gone cold on this one but I just wanted to vent my frustrations with this feature. To have the mouse control the scrolling down and across the pages is fine but as it is also 'dialling' up and down the object size in the Object Pallette in Illustrator is simply daft in my opinion!
The problem is that when I'm using my magic mouse, if I just accidentally brush my finger across my Magic mouse, then it would send my document into a random scroll that would slowly slow down until it stops. I would loose my ability to do anything until it stops and it was getting annoying.
YES! This totally fixed the problem for me! The rampant scrolling problem in Photoshop and Illustrator has been driving me nuts for years, I tried the 3rd party mouse tools and they just get outdated and stop working. I just never thought to look in the Accessibility panel but suspected maybe that was it. Now I can stop yelling at my screen every time I just accidentally even breathe on the mouse.
I bought a Magic mouse and Keyboard to go with my new Mac Mini - hmm think that was a mistake. Stuff magically moving in front of me - not sure if I will ever get used to this beast and I have been trying since Mid December...
I don't think the problem is the magic mouse. I have a magic mouse 1 and 2. When I use Illustrator I don't have the same problem. I think Illustrator has permanently turned down the fidelity though. Panning in Illustrator is not smooth, and it shifts in about 5px increments. However, my solution is to turn the panning fidelity down ONLY on mouse down (like Illustrator). Turn the fidelity back up on mouse up. I don't know if this is possible, but obviously this is not a big problem in Illustrator. I still love your product though.
I have used a magic mouse for years. For the most part it works great for me in all the apps I use including Illustrator and Photoshop. Still waiting for some maturity before jumping on board with my Affinity software.
The Problem is, that Affinity is far to sensitive. I think there should be an option to disable scrolling gestures while holding down the mouse button. Or even better only allow scrolling with a second finger.
alasdair - exactly. it was working fine in the Oct. '17 version, then I upgraded and lost the ability to horizontal scroll with a magic mouse. Sounds like it was the upgrade. balsamiq - is this a known issue?
Recently I started using tmux inside my terminal on my Mac. However now whenever I'm in a tmux session and I scroll up or down using my mouse, it scrolls through my command history instead of scrolling through my terminal pane. How do I disable this feature and make mouse scrolling go back to the default behavior?
What happened most likely is that you were, either locally or remotely, running a command (like vim, or top, or many programs that use libraries similar to ncurses) that uses the terminal's "alternate screen" mode. When this is active, many terminal programs helpfully remap the scrolling action on the mouse to arrow keys, because generally scrolling the local display is less than helpful. If this application terminated ungracefully, your terminal may still think it's in that mode.
The reason for this is probably that your terminal sends Up and Down keys for the mouse wheel when applications are in "cursor positioning mode" but do not request the mouse themselves, which is the case for tmux with the mouse option off.
As mentioned by Nicholas Marriott in a comment, a set-option -g mouse on line in your .tmux.conf will probablly do what you want. (Make sure you're using the latest tmux version.) This sets a global option that turns on mouse interactivity.
Edit > Preferences > General > "Zoom with Scroll Wheel" is checked, then the Alt + scroll is disabled. But when you uncheck the option of "Zoom with Scroll Wheel", then Alt + scroll is enabled.
I don't have a perfect solution, but if you install BetterTouchTool you can use it to deactivate option + vertical scrolling only in Illustrator. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a feature to restrict opt + horizontal scrolling in specific apps, but I find (at least personally) that most of my accidental scrolls are vertical, anyway.
Is it possible to disable the scroll wheel on my bluetooth mouse for my iMac? I remote desktop into a computer at work (windows xp) to run some mapping software (ArcGIS 10), and the mouse wheel controls the zoom level (scale) of the map. The only problem is the mouse wheel is extremely sensitive and is constantly zooming in and out of my map document. The document has a lot of data in it and when I'm working with large files this can cause long redraw times.
I've also noticed it does the same thing when using google maps in OS X, which is also very frustrating. It would be nice if there was some way to bind this option to a key command so I could enable/disable quickly as needed.
Use inertia when scrolling: Control what happens when you lift your finger from the mouse (a mouse such as a Magic Mouse). With this option turned on, scrolling comes to a gradual stop. Otherwise, scrolling stops immediately.
This tutorial will show you who to disable multitouch on Magic Mouse, and also how to re-enable multitouch on a Magic Mouse again if you change your mind and want the scrolling abilities back again.
Another option is to use a third party app like BetterTouchTool or MagicPrefs, which allows you to disable and enable specific gestures and Magic Mouse abilities through a little control panel like Mac app too.
I already have the "Swipe between pages" option turned off. What I mean is I don't want any horizontal movement at all from the mouse. When in a Finder window in list view, if I accidentally swipe a tiny bit to the left, the disclosure triangles disappear. Hard to control. I tried the terminal command but it does work. I guess it used to work prior to Sierra.
Gary, now that I input the command you suggested in Terminal, should I input another command to cancel it?
TOTALLY. THIS. ALL. THE. TIME. I don't want to disable mouse scrolling because I use finger scrolling to move around the canvas. I just want to stop messing up the numbers by accidental touch (daily occurrence), which impact my creative output. This is by far the most annoying and unsophisticated CC function that no illustrator user has asked for to begin with.
Currently any field that takes entry of numerical value can be adjusted by scrolling. However for those of us which have mouses with free-wheel or touch-style scrolling this tends to lead to accidental value adjustment.
An option in the preferences to disable to feature would be useful.
Definitely been an issue for at least a few years. Please provide an option to disable scrolling through all fields in Illustrator windows or no longer make this the default action when you hover your mouse about a field. Just the slightest movement of your index finger will start scrolling through numbers.
I can very much second this. Also very annoying with magic mouse, and especially annoying because illustrator doesn't consider the scroll as 1 action, so if i accidentally scroll over the stroke value i need to undo several times to go back to the original value.
Personally, I would also like to just be able to turn this feature off. It's not precise/smooth enough to be helpful in my mac and it's too easy to trigger unintentionally.
It would be nice if there was a preference to turn off what I've seen referred to as "hover scrolling" or when selected type or object is changed when the mouse rolls over a drop down menu. I was first going to report it as a bug, but apparently it's an actual feature.
I'm rolling out 10.15.6 this year and I'm finding the mouse scroll direction along with other .globalpreference settings seems to have moved. The only 2x settings that still worked for me were: 'Disable fast user switching' and 'enable or disable auto logout after 60 minutes'.
The right click works fine on every new 'standard' user account profile that gets created. (For some reason it doesn't apply to the default Admin account but works on every other account that gets created.)
I can't help you with the mouse scrolling unfortunatelly as I never got it working and ran out of time.
Hold on I take that back. Sorry, I was referring to the .GlobalPreferences file in the /Library/Preferences folder which confused me. I've just done a quick check with fsmonitor and the natural scrolling option under mouse settings does indeed refer to the .GlobalPreferences file located in the users profile. In that case do the same thing as the above example but do it for your scroll direction setting. I haven't tested this but it should work:
I use a magic mouse and I am constantly moving fader positions accidentally. It would be good if you could disable mouse scrolling for specific parameters, especially faders and mixer parameters like pan, send sliders etc.
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