[Gorby]

I finally caved in and just bought a new 1GHz 15" PB. Having cracked my screen on the Sony Vaio, it gave me the excuse I needed and I love it. So reponsive and to install you just drop folders into the HD, no DLL hell by the look of it.

However I bought the Apple Optical Mouse and it drove me crazy, boy did my hand hurt, but I changed the Tracking speed to fast but it wasn't enough for me still, and sadly I'm afraid, I do miss the right click so I shoved my MS mouse on it and I was a happy chappy again.

Is there any way to make the tracking speed faster?

A new convert from the PC world....

Richard

[SubGeniux]

I found that too and having a 2, or 3 button mouse is much better thatn having to use the keyboard and mouse to use contextual menus, the speed also bugged me.
here's how to speed up the mouse settings:

Open the .GlobalPreferences.plist in your home directory with textedit

username/library/Preferences/.Globalpreferences.plist

then scroll to the very bottom and you'll find the mouse settings in the <key> tag
should look like this
<key>com.apple.mouse.scaling</key>
<real>3.5</real>

i changed mine to 3.5 which seems a good setting, but play around and see what you think.
After you've changed it and saved the file out, you might have to log out to see the effects, and not don't change the mouse speed in the Mouse preference pane in system preferences, this will revert it back to the default speed.

I got a logitech 2 button mouse with a wheel whci halso acts a s a 3rd button, does the trick nicely.

subgeniux

[SubGeniux]

sorry, the mouse setting isn't in the <key> tag, but in the <real> tag jsut below it where you should see a numerical value.

[Gorby]

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try. I missed the wheel as well, it was nice to get that back. Methinks the apple mouse is going back.

Cheers

[SubGeniux]

yeah, I couldn't live without the extra buttons, OS X supports it natively too, so handy when using apps and such like.
oh, congrats on the PB, lovely machine.

[Spheric Harlot]

If you miss a scroll wheel, install uControl (you should anyway).

uControl lets you assign the Enter key (which I never need) to be an extra fn key. Hold down function and move the mouse on the trackpad = instant scrollpad.

really, really useful.

-s*

[Gorby]

Originally posted by SubGeniux:

<key>com.apple.mouse.scaling</key>
<real>3.5</real>

That figure works well, ended up with a Logitech mouse. Thanks for that.

Richard

[mosch]

Originally posted by Gorby:
That figure works well, ended up with a Logitech mouse. Thanks for that.

Richard

If you have a logitech mouse, you can do this even more easily by installing the OS X Logitech control center. From there, you can easily add a speed multipler for your Logitech device.

[legionare]

There's a third-party Pref Panel that can sexataple the mouse tracking.

[aktive]

Go on to versiontracker and search for 'MouseZoom' its a pref pane that allows you to increase the mouse tracking speed in osx to several times faster than the default. I use it as the default speed is just too darn slow.

Hope this helps.