Hi
I have disabled the Magic Mouse swapping features in the preferences menu but it doesn't seem to disable anything.
Any ideas how to stop horizontal swapping?
Thanks
Mic
OSX 10.8.4
MBP Retina
Magic Mouse
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8), Synology NAS, Airport Extreme
Do you mean natural scrolling direction?
I don't know what is natural scrolling directions, I am talking about the horizontal swapping. It's disabled in preferences but yet still scrolls left to right in Adobe InDesign which annoys the **** since the document keeps on moving left to right. The only way is to dump Magic Mouse.
Yeah.. well I don't know what "horizontal swapping" is. Natural scrolling direction means, "push your finger up to push the content up". Is that what you're referring to, and what you don't want?
Horizontal swapping is swapping from right to left not up and down.
Yeah, well sorry, I was just giving an example. Meaning, the content moves the same direction as your finger. Is that what you're referring to and what you don't want?
Thanks ffiti
Yes I don't want it to scrolls, swap sideways. even though this option is deselected in preferences the swapping still occurs and it's annoying especially in design and desktop publishing applications.
Which of the following do you want:
1. Natural vertical scroll and unnatural horizontal scroll
2. Unnatural vertical scroll and unnatural horizontal scroll
The first one will be harder to do and I think it will be awkward to use anyways. For the second one, just uncheck "Scrolling direction: natural".
Thanks for your help.
I want to disable horizontal scroll (swipe) permanently. not natural or unnatural.
Disabling it in preferences does nothing! I downloaded an app BetterTouchTool which allows to modify and disable many magic mouse preferences.
Seems like OSX 10.8 mouse preferences simply don't work.
I'm confused why you didn't just say that then. Anyways, the system mouse preferences are working fine, they just don't give the option to turn off horizontal scrolling. I don't own a Magic Mouse myself, but under "Point & Click" see if there is an option to change the scrolling style to "Vertical and Horizontal". That will at least prevent you from suddenly switcing to horizontal scrolling in the middle of a finger movement.
Alternatively, use this command in Terminal (use at your own risk):
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseHorizontalScroll -bool false
Thanks for your help ffiti
I think I was clear in my original post
"Any ideas how to stop horizontal swapping?"
I thought that if a user deselects the swapping option then it should stop that gesture. see my earlier screen shot. but it doesn't!
I prefer not to use the command line. for now I found an app that will do what I need. This is mostly on Adobe applications where mouse sensitivity is crucial for quick workflow and precision.
Cheers
I think you mean "scrolling" or "swiping" as opposed to "swapping".
I'm frustrated. On previous OS versions, I've succesfuly ran:
defaults write com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse MouseHorizontalScroll -bool NO and it worked so slick, now it does not work in 10.8
Tried switching NO to false, still no luck.
Is there another command line option to use in 10.8?
I even downloaded the BTT, but for whatever reason can not get it disable horizontal scrolling? I added a Single Finger Swipe Left and Single Finger Swip Right with "no action" but didn't make a difference, what did I do wrong?
I'm also not crazy about having to run BTT all the time, taking up precious resources, does it always have to be running to work?
Yes, you need to use BTT all the time. I simply decided not to use the Magic Mouse. If disabling such a simple gesture doesn't work and never did then someone in Apple simply put it as the last priority to fix. How many people actually know they can change the Magic Mouse preferences? probably a tiny percentage.
I guess Apple are to concern about there iOS devices to keep the big bucks coming in.
Cheers
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