Tahoe Beta and Magic Mouse Sensitivity

[Luna Murasaki]

So I upgraded to Tahoe Public Beta 1 yesterday when it came out. For the most part, things are working extremely well.

I have noticed a problem with my Magic Mouse though. The sensitivity is now extremely low to the point where I need to carry my mouse several times to make it from one end of the screen to the other. The sensitivity slider in preferences no longer seems to have any effect at all - it can't make it faster or slower. My Logitech mouse is not affected by this problem.

I do have multiple mouse-related programs on my system and I am not sure how to cleanly remove all of them in order to find out if any of them are causing the problem or if it is a bug in Tahoe. The developer of one of them, CursorSense, has already told me that CursorSense is not causing this, and says Tahoe can no longer change sensitivity for the Magic Mouse. I thought I'd ask for confirmation from others before deciding what to do.

If you have Tahoe Public Beta 1 or Developer Beta 4 and use a Magic Mouse, have you noticed such behavior? Are you able to influence your cursor speed by adjusting the sensitivity in System Preferences or does the slider not seem to do anything in either direction? What mouse-related programs do you have installed?

If this is indeed happening to others, maybe it should be reported as a bug to Apple by someone who doesn't have programs like this installed.

 

[Kutfe]

I'm just as upset about this new restriction. My workflow has become terrible, my Magic Mouse has returned to the time of the dinosaurs. CursorSense has become a useless program. I have not tested other similar programs yet, but I think there will be no success with them, since this feature is closed by Apple.

 

[Mattstrete]

Try LinearMouse to change sensitivity and acceleration settings. (It's working fine on the latest beta). I also recommend Multitouch for ... multitouch gestures, including tap to click (which has been a "game changer" for me: I have used a variety of apps over the years in order to enable this functionality on the Magic Mouse, and this has been by far the most reliable in detecting one-finger taps).

 

[Luna Murasaki]

I posted this thread nearly 2 weeks ago. I guess I gave up hope on replies too early.

Since I made the opening post, I had managed to uninstall CursorSense using AppCleaner. Without CursorSense on the system at all, the Magic Mouse behaved normally and responded again to the sensitivity slider in preferences, though I was no longer able to change the acceleration. I contacted the developer of CursorSense again and he showed me how right in plain sight, there is a button to disable CursorSense's handling of a particular device. This allowed me to continue to use it for my Logitech Mouse while at least having a normal, vanilla experience for the Magic Mouse without acceleration adjustment.

Try LinearMouse to change sensitivity and acceleration settings. (It's working fine on the latest beta). I also recommend Multitouch for ... multitouch gestures, including tap to click (which has been a "game changer" for me: I have used a variety of apps over the years in order to enable this functionality on the Magic Mouse, and this has been by far the most reliable in detecting one-finger taps).

I gave LinearMouse a try. On my system at least, it seems to have the same issues, only it seems less aware of them. With CursorSense, the ability to change your mouse sensitivity is grayed out when you have the Magic Mouse selected. With LinearMouse, the slider is not grayed out, but it still doesn't do anything. I'm not sure why you would be able to make it work whereas for me it has the same issues as CursorSense. Are you by any chance on Developer Beta 5? Maybe when Public Beta 2 comes out this problem will go away for me.