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mousefix for OS X from Richard Bentley fixed for 10.6
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MouseFix -------- Version 1.2.1 - 19/09/2009 Updated mousefix so it will compile/run on 10.6 (Intel-only, sorry) binaries available at http://code.google.com/p/mousefix-10-6/ - Allen "Chip" Parker - infowolfe+mousefix@gmail.com Version 1.2 - 20/08/2006 Copyright (c) 2005 - Richard Bentley - mousefix@knockknock.org.uk CHANGE LOG ---------- 23/07/2005 - V 1.0 - Initial version 16/02/2006 : V 1.1 - Lance Burns suggested enabling the acceleration table (this was disabled in V 1.0) and setting the values within it to {1, 1}, {2, 1}. This seems to generate a more linear response. I have no idea why this works and neither has Lance Burns (!) but there you go. Maybe if the mouse driver wasn't so badly written then we could make sense of it :-) 20/08/2006 : V 1.2 - Aaron Johnson suggested a modification to the acceleration curve based on similar data used in MS Windows XP. See the source code for further details. He has suggested that it works best with an acceleration factor of 2 (the source code has been modified to this value, but it may be altered on the command line when executing mousefix). Many thanks to Aaron Johnson for this suggestion. TERMS OF USE ------------ This software is provided as-is and is used entirely at your own risk. This software may be freely distributed, however no payment may be demanded or offered for it (either monetary, in kind, through offers of any weird sex acts, or anything else). INTRODUCTION ------------ MouseFix is a very simple command line program that will allow you to switch off or adjust the terrible mouse control of Mac OS-X. Note that even with MouseFix, the mouse movement can still be pretty ropey, so either I've not hit on the optimal values to use or the driver is just not very good. Copies of this software may be found at www.knockknock.org.uk/mac/ INSTALLING ---------- As you are reading this, it is assumed that you have managed to unpack MouseFix from its archive COMPILING --------- If you are building from source then you will first need to make sure you have the developer kit installed. This is available on the standard OS-X DVD that comes with your machine. There is rather a lot of it though so unless you intend doing some other development work or you find that you absolutely must build from source, you may not want to bother, in which case get hold of the pre-compiled version of MouseFix from www.knockknock.org.uk/mac/ If you look at the top of the source file you will see the configuration parameters that you can adjust. I have tried to comment them as best I can but I'm not familiar with OS-X's driver architecture so apologies if I am wide of the mark. Anyway, the stuff is there if you want it. To compile: > cc mousefix.c -o mousefix /usr/lib/libIOKit.A.dylib Optionally (to reduce the executable size - not that it matters)... > strip mousefix ...or run the make script included with the source, thus: > ./make INSTALLING ---------- There isn't actually any 'installation' required as such. the 'mousefix' executable is self contained and works as it is. To run it from the command line, type the following: This will fix the mouse settings with default values that may well be ok for you... > ./mousefix This will fix the mouse settings using an acceleration factor of 3.5... > ./mousefix 3.5 This will print some help... > ./mousefix h STARTING MOUSEFIX AUTOMATICALLY AT STARTUP ------------------------------------------ Once you have found some settings that work for you then you will probably want to have them set automatically at startup (they will be lost when you power off). To do this: 1/ Copy the 'mousefix' executable somewhere where it's not likely to be in the way, such as /Applications or maybe a local 'utilities' directory or suchlike. Note that you will have to be an admin user to copy mousefix to /Applications Before diving in, I suggest you read both the following options and choose which one you want to use :-) 2A/ METHOD #1 - The broken 'Mac' way (doesn't inspire confidence, does it?)... Open 'System Preferences' - Select 'Accounts' from the 'System' category - Select the appropriate account (you will need to be an admin user to select any account other than your own) - Select the 'Login Items' tab - Click on the '+' and find the MouseFix program and select 'Add' There are two problems with this method. * Firstly, you can't specify any parameters to mousefix when it starts (or at least if you can, I don't know how you do it). So, if you are not happy with the defaults that are defined in mousefix then you have a problem. The only solution is to modify the source code to match what you want and rebuild it * The second problem is that after starting, you are left with a console window open on the screen that you can't do anything with except close! Not a big problem, but annoying. I don't know how to stop this happening either. 2B/ METHOD #2 - The simple, common sense way... If you look in your home directory you may find a file called '.profile' (note the preceding '.' in the name - it is important!) If this file already exists then load it into an editor. If it doesn't then create it. A quick way of creating it is to open a command line and type: > touch .profile At the end of the '.profile' file, add the following: /Applications/mousefix ...or if you want to specify a different acceleration factor (eg - 3.5), then... /Applications/mousefix 3.5 There are no problems with this method (assuming you are using the default bash shell, and if you aren't using the default shell then you probably know what you're doing anyway and won't be reading this) ...and as you've probably surmised by now, this works without leaving a console on the screen at boot up, and there are no problems with specifying parameters to mousefix from within the .profile file (well, there wouldn't be, would there?) UNINSTALLING ------------ Someone complained about not being able to uninstall MouseFix. Well, to 'uninstall' it, you : 1/ Stop executing it 2/ Delete the executable Errr... that really is all there is to it. Honest! ---------------------- Well, that's it! --- END ---
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