Questions tagged [mouse]
The mouse is a rodent-shaped device used to move a pointer on the screen
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How can I activate buttons with just the keyboard?
Many user interface (UI) elements or dialog boxes have buttons. I would like to be able to activate a button with just the keyboard, without the mouse. How can I do this?
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How to separate "mouse" and "trackpad" settings?
In System Preferences > Mouse there's a setting "Scroll direction: natural", which I don't like, so I unset. The problem is that this also unsets the setting for Trackpad, which I do like.
How can ...
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Force OS X to use Bluetooth dongle instead of built in controller
I'm using a Magic Mouse with my MacBook Pro and Mountain Lion. The cursor sometimes start to lag. I figured, the reason for this could be the distance between my Mac and the mouse (about 1.5 meters / ...
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Sharing a Bluetooth Keyboard and Mouse sequentially between two Macs
I work out of my house where I have two computers: a mid-2010 Macbook Pro (for my day job) and a mid-2010 iMac (personal). During the workday, my iMac acts as a second display for my Macbook Pro via ...
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Change the mouse wheel scrolling acceleration
I am new Mac user and I don't really like the Magic Mouse so I reverted to a good old 3 button mouse with a scroll wheel.
When I turn the wheel slowly, it only scrolls pixel per pixel (or per two ...
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AutoHotkey Equivalent for OS X?
Is there an equivalent product/method for AutoHotkey. For those that don't know, its a product that allows you to program your mouse movements and keyboard. This allows me to "macro" certain functions ...
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How can I make focus follow the mouse cursor?
I will often click on a button expecting it to be clicked but instead all that happens is the application it is in becomes active, and I have to click again to actually click the button. It would be ...
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How can I set a different scrolling direction for mouse and trackpad in Lion?
I want to give the new scrolling behavior in Lion a try (both on the built-in as well as on the magic trackpad).
But on my Mouse (a Logitech Anywhere MX), I don't want reverse scrolling. In ...
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Mouse Pointer Locator
Due to a stroke, I have had some vision impairment in that I sometimes have a hard time locating my mouse pointer on the screen. I have tried making the mouse pointer larger which helps but is still ...
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Bluetooth and WiFi interfering with one another since Yosemite
Note: The only thing that changed in my setup is installing Yosemite.
Since installing Yosemite, I'm having a somewhat peculiar problem: WiFi works fine, and BT works fine. But WiFi + BT working ...
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How to set already-paired bluetooth devices again into discovery mode?
How can I set a Magic Trackpad (or, any other bluetooth device, I guess) into discovery mode, if it has already been paired to another mac?
Anything I find on google just mocks me.
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Do the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad support “middle click”?
I'm currently using the old Apple Mighty Mouse and I configured clicking on the trackball as a "middle click" that's been very handy for opening links in new tabs, closing tabs, etc. However, the ...
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Unresponsive mouse wheel on macOS Sierra
Since I upgraded to Sierra, mouse wheel scrolling has become a lot worse. When I scroll the wheel fast, it behaves like it did before and scrolls a bunch of lines, but when I scroll the wheel one ...
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Text deselecting when using Logitech mouse scroll wheel in Sierra
I'm using a Logitech Performance MX mouse and since upgrading to Sierra I'm having difficulty when using my scroll wheel to select large amounts of text. Usually, I scroll while holding left mouse and ...
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Best way to switch magic keyboard and trackpad between work/personal Macs?
I just got a new work laptop. I would like to seamlessly switch my bluetooth devices (headphones, magic keyboard, touchpad) between work / personal Macs without complex repairing.
Has anyone solved ...
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How to disable scroll acceleration in macOS Sierra?
A few releases ago OS X introduced scroll acceleration, which means if you keep scrolling in some direction, the speed of the scroll will be greater and greater. You cannot disable this from the UI. ...
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Magic Mouse can never reconnect on Yosemite
Since upgrading to Yosemite (did a wipe of my HD before installing, so no settings was there from Mavericks) I can only connect my Magic Mouse normally once per boot.
Normally you would be able to ...
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Mouse Wheel Emulation on Mac
I've recently moved into an office that has standardized on Apple computers and have run into something that I have used with Linux that I know is going to drive me nuts on the Mac. I use a Logitech ...
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Bluetooth peripherals randomly disconnecting under Mavericks
I've scoured the internet to try to find a solution to this bizarre problem (similar problems here and here and here), but have unfortunately failed so far. I'm running OS X 10.9.1 on an early-2013 ...
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Raise/lower/move/resize windows with mouse + modifier keys
I'm a longtime FVWM user over on the Linux side and have developed some keyboard + mouse shortcuts that I find very helpful in managing windows. Specifically:
left click + command + shift = send to ...
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Macbook Pro with Lion: scrolling via trackpad vs. mouse
So the default scrolling behavior for the trackpad in Lion is to scroll in the direction of your finger movement similar to the iPad. This can be changed in the trackpad preferences by un-checking ...
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When MouseKeys are on, how do I click or move the mouse using AppleScript?
This post suggests that the command tell application “System Events” to key code 37 in AppleScript should move the mouse pointer one pixel down and to the left if run when MouseKeys are enabled. In OS ...
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What is the life expectancy of a Magic Mouse 2 battery?
I would like to know what is the battery life cycle of a Magic Mouse 2. Or the approximate number of charge/recharge cycles before its battery's performances will start to reduce visibly?
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Why can't I left click on my Macbook Pro?
I have a Macbook Pro (Retina, Late 2012) running OS X El Capitan (10.11.13).
What works:
Secondary click with two fingers
Feel/sound of trackpad click (no noticeable change in the feel of the ...
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How do I make OS X auto focus on the window in the screen the mouse moves into?
I work with two screens. On the primary screen, I have XCode on. On the other screen, I have the browser. While reading docs, I am usually focused on the XCode screen, typing in code.
So I want to ...
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Adjust horizontal scrolling speed on a mouse or trackpad independent of the vertical speed
I have recently bought a Logitech M510 as my main mouse switching over from a magic mouse. I didn't realize missing horizontal scrolling would be such an issue, but apparently it is.
Now a mac does ...
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Magic Mouse is frequently losing its connection to MacBook Pro
My Magic Mouse is intermittently losing its connection to my MacBook Pro.
First the mouse becomes unresponsive and a few seconds later, a picture of the mouse appears on the screen wit the words "...
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Multiple Macbook Pros with one monitor
I have two MacBook Pros (one for work; one personal) that I want to connect to one monitor, one keyboard, and one mouse, and be able to switch between the two easily. Typically I'd opt to purchase a ...
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I have a two mouses: one for each hand. How can I set the primary mouse button separately for each mouse?
I would like the mouse I am using for my left hand to use the right button as the primary button. However, it appears that this setting is global so that it impacts the setting for my right handed ...
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Trackpad and mouse require two taps/clicks to register first click
I'm having a horribly frustrating issue that I can't seem to work out. Here are the steps to reproduce the problem, which happens with both an external Logitec VX mouse, the internal MacBook Pro ...
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How to assign mouse button to Mission Control's 'Application windows' feature?
I have a button on the side of my mouse that Mission Control sees as Mouse Button 4.
In Mission Control's preferences, I can assign this button to either 'Show Desktop', 'Mission Control' or 'Show ...
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Can't Turn Off Swipe Between Pages!
I recently picked up the new Magic Mouse 2. Since then, the 'Swipe Between Pages' has started working on it's own. With the old mouse, I turned it off, as I was constantly flipping through web pages ...
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Logitech Mouse: how can I use additional buttons?
I recently bought a Logitech M560 mouse.
It works fine on my Mac, but I wonder if there's a software/prefpane (free or paid) I can use to map the additional buttons I have on my mouse (i.e. to open ...
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How to quickly move mouse cursor between monitors?
I have two external monitors, positioned horizontally on each side of my MacBook Pro. When I am working in the far left or far right screens, I find it a little annoying to have to move the cursor all ...
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Can't click with trackpad or mouse (OS X 10.9, MacBook Pro)
I have a new(ish) MacBook Pro running OS X 10.9. When it boots up to the login screen it will let me move the cursor around, but it won't recognize click events.
I thought it was the trackpad, so I ...
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Get low battery notifications for mouse earlier
Is it possible to tweak the % that I get warning of low battery for my Magic Mouse 2?
I currently only get it at 2% at which point it's very close to dying so I have to stop what I'm doing and plug ...
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How to jump to a location using mouse on iTerm/terminal?
I work on a terminal most of the time.
Is there an application / plugin over iTerm or any other terminal like application using which I can control the cursor location of my terminal using a mouse ?
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Disable system-wide ctrl-click as right-click in Mavericks
Disabling ctrl+click as right-click is useful because:
Many web app rely on ctrl+click (typically for multiple selection).
There is little use for this combo (mice have 2+ buttons and trackpad ...
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Zooming in Google Chrome using the mouse wheel?
On Windows and, if I'm not mistaken, on Linux, it's possible to zoom in and out in Google Chrome using the mouse wheel. However, this doesn't seem to be working on Mac OS X.
Does anybody know if this ...
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Can I disable the Magic Mouse swipe to go back feature in Safari?
I have an Apple Magic Mouse, and in Safari, when I swipe my fingers left and right on the mouse, first the page scrolls left or right if there is a horizontal scrollbar, and then if there is no ...
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How can I disable the trackpad when my mouse is plugged in on Lion?
For the last few hours my trackpad has been behaving terribly, jumping all over the place and sticking. I believe I remember there being an option to disable the trackpad when a mouse is plugged in in ...
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How can I warp the border between two different sized monitors, so the mouse doesn't get stuck in the larger one?
When the monitor on one side of the border has a resolution higher than the monitor on the other side, the mouse can only cross over to the other monitor at the part where their edges overlap, as in ...
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In Fullscreen, disable auto-hiding Mac menu bar
(on latest Mavericks)
While in VirtualBox (Ubuntu) fullscreen, on a Mac host, each time the mouse goes near the top, the Mac auto-hide menu bar appears - and I want to prevent that, or at least, since ...
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Why is my mouse lagging so much it's impossible to use?
I've a little logitech mouse, and suddenly, with no reasons, it started to lag heavily, and now it's impossibile to use. I've a MBP mid 2012 13'', and never had problems, but now it is unusable. The ...
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First click doesn't register?
For some reason, from time to time, I'll have this issue where the first time I click something, nothing will happen. But, the second time I click the exact same spot, it will work as normal. This ...
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Can I have multiple mice & keyboards for one Mac?
I would like to control two cursors with two mice in the same time, as well as have two keyboards for separate control and text input.
My goal is to have two users on one computer, so I can let my ...
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Can I reverse the scroll direction of my mouse?
I upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard and all of a sudden my scrolls in the browser window (chrome, Firefox etc) have reversed.
I need to scroll up to go down and vice-versa. Is there a ...
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How to disable middle click paste Mavericks Terminal?
I have looked all over the Net and can't find a way to disable middle-click paste in the Terminal application in Mavericks?
I want it scroll but not paste.
Anybody know how to fix this? I'd sure ...
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Apple magic keyboard not working on Windows 10 PC
I have bought the new Apple Magic keyboard for my pc. I tried following lots of links on how to make it work on my PC but none of which really work.
For example, I open windows Bluetooth device and ...
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How can I easily toggle the cursor size back and forth between normal and largest?
I'm using Mac OS 10.8.3. I have a huge display and bad eyes, so I like to have the mouse cursor be the largest possible size. (under System Preferences: Accessibility: Display: Cursor size.
However, ...
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