Mouse acceleration in 10.6

MikeHiow

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How do I remove it?

I've tried the defaults scaling method, but it resets sensitivity to as low as it goes as well, and upon increasing it, it increases scaling a bit, making the behaviour worse than it was before.
 
Honest question...

Why would you want to get rid of it?

What's the actual beef with it? It's perfect. You can do both these things:

a) move the mouse across almost any size screen in one sweep
b) have total precise control over the mouse when you need it
 
PardonTheWait said:
Honest question...

Why would you want to get rid of it?

What's the actual beef with it? It's perfect. You can do both these things:

a) move the mouse across almost any size screen in one sweep
b) have total precise control over the mouse when you need it
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For me it's when trying to click on an element on the screen such as the back button on Firefox, I move the mouse across the screen normally which works well but I naturally slow down towards the button so I'm accurate, but the default tracking slows it way further down so I'm moving the mouse for longer for precision which isn't needed.
 
PardonTheWait said:
Honest question...

Why would you want to get rid of it?

What's the actual beef with it? It's perfect. You can do both these things:

a) move the mouse across almost any size screen in one sweep
b) have total precise control over the mouse when you need it
Click to expand...

How often do most users need glacial pixel level tracking? Because with Apple's acceleration parameters, it's always there, unless you're flinging the mouse around.

Linear tracking should be the default unless there's a need for otherwise.
 
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PardonTheWait said:
Honest question...

Why would you want to get rid of it?

What's the actual beef with it? It's perfect. You can do both these things:

a) move the mouse across almost any size screen in one sweep
b) have total precise control over the mouse when you need it
Click to expand...

Because under windows, I've worked with no mouse acceleration for well over 7 years - I have no need for mouse acceleration, I use a high enough sensitivity to be able to move it all the way across the screen with minimal effort anyway, I also have completely "precise" control over it all the time.
 
Panzerbjorn said:
I just put the tracking speed on maximum and it reduces the impact of the 'glacial pixel level tracking' as you describe it.

Panzer
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That's just an icky kludge. And it's still noticeably there :)

It doesn't affect me that much personally as I use the (excellent) new trackpad most of the time. I have SteerMouse but I haven't installed it on Snow Leopard yet.

I'm not saying either of no-acceleration or some-flavour-of-acceleration is the one true way. You should have the choice, without having to buy additional software.
 
Do you have a choice in Windows (without buying additional software)?

Serious question.
 
Yes, you can turn mouse acceleration off in Windows 7.

This didn't work so well in XP, you needed a reg fix for perfectly flat "curves", but it was an easy fix. I have no idea about Vista.
 
When I first moved to OS X I hated the mouse acceleration, and Steermouse never (no matter what setting) got it like Windows.

However, after a few days on OS X you really get use to it and its fine. When I went back to Windows after OS X actually, I felt Windows mouse movement was all wrong, so it's only cos you are not use to the change. Bear with it and you will get use to it, I'm 99% sure of that.
 
I'm not so sure.

Had I used mouse acceleration in Windows, then it would be fine, you just adjust to different acceleration curves.

But that isn't the case, I've used no mouse acceleration whatsoever for the past 7 years.

That said, after a lot of playing with steermouse, I'm somewhere near something usable.
 
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