Magic Mouse - Disable horizontal scrolling ?

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Magic Mouse - Disable horizontal scrolling ?

like the Magic Mouse a lot, just horizontal scrolling drives me nuts with some apps.

Could you disable horizontal scrolling and keep vertical scrolling activated ?

tx, W

dual 2 ghz PPC G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Jan 8, 2010 8:24 AM

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Snags40

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Mar 16, 2017 2:58 PM in response to bjfrombaltimore

Scrolling in all directions was a big problem for me with my Magic Mouse 2. I downloaded MagicPrefs from MacUpdate and installed it. I opened its preferences and turned off the three diagonal scrolling prefs. Along the way I somehow ended up with three copies of the icon in the Menu Bar. I then clicked the box to turn off the icon in the menu bar. Now the icon doesn't show up in the doc or on the screen which means that I can't get to the preferences again. I also can't seem to quit or delete the program either. In that the annoying diagonal mouse movements are gone I may just leave it that way. Any suggestions?

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Snags40

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Apr 15, 2017 3:51 PM in response to walter maldeghem

Follow-up:

I have found that, with the app MagicPrefs installed, that my non-Apple bluetooth mouse works as it should and I don't have to put up with the horizontal scrolling problem. With the Magic Mouse 2 the horizontal scrolling can be turned off by the MagicPrefs app but the Magic Mouse 2 still doesn't work satisfactorily. So I do now have the bluetooth mouse I wanted.

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May 9, 2017 2:14 PM in response to Snags40

I tried the command: defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseHorizontalScroll -bool NO

however it doesn't work, even after logging off/on and disconnecting/connecting the magic mouse.

The mouse still goes crazy in any excel spreadsheet. I can't work with this mouse, its just unbelievably frustrating. Honestly, if I would have known this before I would not have bought this piece of ****. It drives me absolutely nuts.

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CKorasi

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Aug 9, 2017 4:22 PM in response to walter maldeghem

I don't have an answer to your question, but I can't help but remark that... well, the only kind of scrolling you can do is horizontal haha

I know you mean left/right scrolling, but yeah it made me laugh imagining what vertical scrolling would look like

just ignore me, I'm being daft

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Sep 1, 2017 9:44 AM in response to ideawire

Ha, I'm here because of InDesign as well. Accidental swipes send my pages flying a least a few times a day. Then I had a eureka moment and thought I should just disable horizontal scrolling. Was disappointed to find the option not there. I think maybe it used to be available at some time in the past in a previous OS. Maybe not?

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Kaplan

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Jan 10, 2010 2:37 PM in response to walter maldeghem

i'm with you walter. i've got long scrolling vertical scrolling to do while i'm writing code and can't stand when the mouse slides the text horizontally.

it'd be great if Apple was working to fix this ... a missing functionality preference. that system preference pane with the little video or whatever is overkill IMO... how about a couple options for scrolling... thanks Apple!

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flx777

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Jan 22, 2010 3:29 AM in response to walter maldeghem

Same problem here. That really *****.

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Jan 23, 2010 12:10 AM in response to walter maldeghem

I'm training my finger to only move in one direction on my Mighty Mouse. But I miss the scroll wheel clicks. I need those clicks on one program I run.

Tracy

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Kaplan

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Jan 29, 2010 6:34 AM in response to Kaplan

I think holding the mouse with 2 fingers on top of the mouse is the trick for avoiding inadvertent scrolling, especially horizontal. Having a single finger touching is definitely going to cause a scroll.

It seems like trying not to touch the top, where I'd scroll was causing more accidental scrolling. Think less delicate, more ham-finger.

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rbfraven

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Jan 29, 2010 9:38 AM in response to walter maldeghem

It would be helpful to somehow control the sensitivity. It is always scrolling laterally right when I don't intend that especially in Eudora and Word and Word seems a bit worse. If I make sure to drag my fingertip exactly vertical up or down, there is no lateral scrolling, but if it is slightly diagonal (which it almost always is from years of habit) it will laterally scroll. I'm at times tempted to return to my Mighty Mouse, but I like the Magic Mouse too much to return and will instead try to retrain my fingers until an update adds more control.

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Answer 11

Jan 29, 2010 2:29 PM in response to walter maldeghem

You might try looking into an additional app like MagicPrefs, or BTT. I believe both of those will allow you to re-assign those gestures to anything you like. If so, you could just assign them to "do nothing" which should disable the scrolling for you.

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ideawire

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Feb 4, 2010 10:40 AM in response to walter maldeghem

I chime in on this too - When I use InDesign it especially is annoying, as my whole view mysteriously scrolls left and right as I'm working. While I'm sure it must ba a habitual movement I make that causes this, I really don't want to have to "learn" how to use a mouse again, and think if there was a good reason to turn off horizontal scrolling on the mighty mouse, there's equal reason to do it here.

And btw, when I do want horizontal scrolling (which is close to never), i t i s r e a l l y s l o w

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LEK2

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Feb 9, 2010 11:54 AM in response to ideawire

Open a command line window using the Terminal app (in your Applications/Utilities folder):

Paste the following command, and hit Return:

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.

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El Deanio

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Feb 9, 2010 12:06 PM in response to walter maldeghem

Yes MagicPrefs is excellent. I was playing Bioshock and I found the magic Mouse really made the game difficult because the weapons kept on switching at the slightest touch.

In Magic Prefs there is a saved preferences set called Gaming, which might do the trick (i.e a desensitised preference set). I was about to test this out but my Magic Mouse died on me.

If anyone downloads MagPrefs before the end of this week and you have Bioshock installed (or any shooter game for that matter), would you mind posting back to let me know how it works out please?

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Answer 15

Paulman!

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Feb 17, 2010 6:28 AM in response to LEK2

typing in this in the command promt worked!!!!!!

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

Disable Horizintal Scrooling Mac OS X Magic Mouse.

I've been going crazy in inDesign with the stupid screen scrolling sideways constantly.

Thanks

Message was edited by: Paulman!

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