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Make your mouse faster on Mac OS X

09/18/09

English (US) Make your mouse faster on Mac OS X

Permalink 02:47:38 am, by Francois Planque Email , Categories: Apple

There’s 2 problems to mouse speed:

The maximum speed can be set through the System preferences panel, but even when the slider is all the way to the right, the speed may be too slow… especially if you line up 3 monitors side by side.

You can get faster speeds through the Applications > Utilities > Terminal. To see the current setting, type in this:

defaults read -g com.apple.mouse.scaling

To make the mouse faster, set a different value, for example:

defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 6

1 comment

Comment from: Marcus [Visitor]
MarcusWhat's the maximum. I have changed the value to 20 and it is still the same as before. I am using also mousezoom. Can it be that these 2 settings interfere with each other?
02/04/10 @ 16:09

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