Magic Mouse - Disable horizontal scrolling ?

Just want to say big thanks to LEK2 for reducing my stress levels massively. The magic mouse is pretty cool, Apple have almost designed a good mouse for once. However, no middle-mouse scroll-click functionality means that 3d artists like myself are robbed of an essential feature for navigating in 3d scenes, so in that context, my corded $4.99 no-name brand mouse, still exceeds the versatility of any mouse that Apple has ever made.

AC

It would be nice to have a preference for the magic mouse that enables a three-zone feature to reduce the scroll to a center zone. This preserves the scroll feature, but restricts it to a center zone similar to a wheel mouse.

is possible to do the same for the trackpad?

I'm a new Mac user and horizontal scrolling is driving me nuts. I can't use a spreadsheet without it scrolling around all the time. I have a new iMac which came pre-installed with Lion. The above methods have not worked for me. I've tried inputting the commnds via terminal and also used the script downloaded from here. Switching off the mouse or rebooting afterwards but still no joy. Does anyone know if this method does work with Lion as I'm having no luck? Anyone got a solution for Lion?

Thanks.

The sad reality is that Apple are incapable of making a decent mouse. Sell it to some schmuck on ebay and buy a $5 no name brand one with a USB cord and you'll be much happier.

AC

I too have this problem, and posted a suggestiong that I thought might help. If Apple would improve the mouse driver to recognize three distinct zones on the mouse, left, center and right, and three more zones for top, middle and bottom, then allow the user to configure which zones to recognize for scrolling.

The settings should be configurable by app since the current features work very well in read only apps such as browsers, but are useless in update apps such as word processors, program editors, ...

Given that I am right handed, and my hand is resting on the mouse nearly all the time, I would never want the top-left corner zone to respond to scrolls in any direction. I may also disable the right zone since my baby finger seems to trigger random scrolling.

If you like this suggestion, please vote for it so Apple knows it might be a good way to solve this issue.

LEK2 - Thank you SO SO much. I like this new mouse, except for the fact (as mentioned by others) that it drives me CRAZY in InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop because the slightest brush of my finger (even when just lifting my hand from the mouse) would send my screen flying off the the side and I would loose my active items. Very frustrating. I used the suggested code in the Terminal application - and Presto - problem solved.

Thank you so much again!

Can anyone confirmt that they've been able to turn off horizontal scrolling in Lion?

I haven't been able to get it to work for me...

no, it isn't true

if you want to do it just write this code in terminal:

defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseHorizontalScroll -bool NO

Go to the Bluetooth Preferences panel in System Preferences, turn off your mouse with its power switch (watch in the pref panel that it has disconnected), and then re-power it, and your mouse should reconnect.