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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

6 comments

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
Comment from: Kamp [Visitor]
KampQuit Terminal, reboot and BOOM! There you go.
06/04/10 @ 17:52
Comment from: Hip Hop Goon [Visitor]
Hip Hop GoonOh man thanks! I got an iMac with 24" and the mouse was sooo slow lol.
06/14/10 @ 15:49
Comment from: Apple News [Visitor]
Apple NewsI am facing some difficulties about the maximum could some one please explain the procedure?
07/30/10 @ 23:39
Comment from: 27inch mac [Visitor]
27inch macim running a 27inch mac and value 20 works great..

I previously gave my mouse to my girl as it was so slow and used a microsoft bluetooth mouse to get the speed,, but that one craped out so i decided to go back to the mac and was so pissed and had to find a fix.. awsome fix.. thanks
10/05/11 @ 06:29
Comment from: bianca [Visitor]
biancawow! thanks!!!
12/29/11 @ 02:53