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Disabling acceleration is a big feature here, again something that makes sense on a trackpad but does not on a scroll wheel. It's infuriating switching between Linux/Windows/macOS _with the same mouse_ and only macOS has acceleration. Logitech Options doesn't even give acceleration

Also along these lines of bizarre defaults, I don't remember how but I had to change key press settings to allow for repeated presses. Apparently the default behavior is to give you accent character options. Then from there I had to change the interval/initial timings to be closer to Linux/Windows as well. Of course now I'm paying the price with the dreaded repeat inputs on this keyboard

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> Disabling acceleration is a big feature here, again something that makes sense on a trackpad but does not on a scroll wheel.

Ah, but it makes sense on Apple scroll wheels! I think that's why they never added a built-in option to disable it.

Nowadays the Magic Mouse doesn't even have a physical scroll wheel, but even on the Mighty Mouse, the scroll wheel was a little ball that could roll in any direction and didn't have notches, so acceleration made sense.

Acceleration + notches are what do not go together.

I think the magic mouse is treated like a trackpad under the hood so all the gestures work. If someone with a magic mouse tried to uncheck the natural scrolling box under mouse they'd be confused as to why it didn't change so that could be why the two settings are "linked".

Also there's this app called MagicPrefs that allows you to bind things to gestures, including rebinding the system ones. I use it to bind three-finger click as middle click and at this point I can't fathom not having it. It supports all kinds of Apple trackpads and the magic mouse. This implies that all touch gestures, regardless of the shape of the device, share most of the underlying code.

...right, that also makes sense with how some other tools behave. So this applies more to the Mighty Mouse, which is what the wheel acceleration curve feels optimized for IMO.

Yeah, the scroll wheel acceleration kills me - I start off scrolling just a few pixels, and then it jumps half a page, when I just wanted a few lines. I've been using a product called "USB Overdrive" which has a multitude of features for tweaking and mapping input devices, just to override the scroll wheel behavior.

You might be interested in this thing (been using it without issues for a while): https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/253111/how-to-disa...

That's actually where I got the idea from! My app works the same way except uses Swift instead of Objective C.

Speaking of infuriating trackpad issues on macOS: Have you solved the three button problem on Linux/BSD over VNC on MacOS? I had it working on Ubuntu 14 & 16 and FreeBSD 11.3, but now it is busted on 18 and 20. So annoying.

I'm not familiar with that problem as I don't use VNC sorry :(

I would like to get VNC working but haven't done the research post wayland.

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