Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
Mavericks is working fine, but the upgrade has left my beloved Lazy Mouse dead.
Is there any application like Lazy Mouse - which automatically moves the cursor from any part of the screen to the click area?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
After many years without LazyMouse, I was inspired by your Post to try again. I can happily say that I got LazyMouse 2.5 running successfully in MacOS Sierra 10.12.3.
I downloaded Version 2.5 at this link: http://mac.brothersoft.com/lazymouse-download.html
I completed the Install process. It installs as a System Preference, not an app. When I tried to open it, I got this:
This is referring to an older version of Mac OS X. Instead, go to System Preferences, Privacy, Accessibility and look for Lazy Mouse on the right side. In my case, it wasn't there so I did a Restart.
Even after the Restart, Lazy Mouse still did not appear in the Accessibility window. Attempts to open the Lazy Mouse Preference Pane resulted in the "LazyMouse cannot run if "Access for Assistive Devices" is turned off in the Universal Access Preference Pane" as seen above.
I more or less gave up and walked away for long enough for my iMac to go into Sleep Mode. Three hours later, I went to System Preference and double-clicked the Lazy Mouse icon just to try again. To my surprise, Lazy Mouse appeared to be working as I got an active window. Since I had previously purchased Lazy Mouse, it even showed my name next to the "Registered To:"
I checked the "Whenever a new window appears, snap the cursor to the "Default Button." I then went back to the Privacy, Accessibility window and again, to my surprise, Lazy Mouse was now there as seen below:
I "checked" it and did a Restart. After the Restart, I went back to the Lazy Mouse Preference Pane and did the "Try it Out..." That worked! I then opened a document in Pages and went to File, Print and pleasantly saw the cursor on the blue "Print" button thanks to Lazy Mouse. I next tested it in Preview and it worked there as well.
I hope this info helps someone attempting to get this "classic" Mac app up and running in Sierra.
So have you located a replacement to Lazy Mouse?
I've searched the web..... but no luck 😕
Well, as mentioned, I was able to make Lazymouse work on my iMac 2009, using Mavericks. However, as Old Jewel software suggests, they stopped updating the software with 10.6. If that doesn't work for you, there are several software options that might work for you:
Pinpoint Mouse Enhancer
Pointer Finder
Cursor Finder
I have no why different machines using the same OS will end up with such different results rendering Lazy Mouse. Until Old Jewel software updates, you may have to move to the more compatible alternatives.
poikkeus1 wrote:
However, as Old Jewel software suggests, they stopped updating the software with 10.6.
I wanted to check to see what was happening with this software, as I've been a happy user for years now, currently running Lion on a MacBook4,1. I was disappointed to find that the author let the Old Jewel domain name expire and now it's one of those link-squatter pages.
McAtak wrote:
I'm baffled that any version of OS x does not include this as a standard feature.
Yeah, no kidding! Snap-to default mouse button has been a feature in Windows since at least NT4. When I got my first MacBook back in 2007, the lack of this feature drove me nuts until I found LazyMouse.
I've been searching for just exactly this!! Their website is no longer active via macupdate... anybody have any ideas? Subistutes? I'm about to have to do 1600 repetitive actions that can only be done manually and each one requires that I click a default dialog box option.. please!?
The options you reference do not seem to do the one thing I want - go to a default dialog button on a window. I don't need help finding my cursor. Or am I misreading the FAQ's for these products?
go to /Users/yourname/Library/PreferencePanes/LazyMouse.prefPane/Contents/Resources/L azyMouseBG.app
drag this application in System Preference->Security & Privacy->Privacy .
LazyMouse Will work .. 😉
Crashes System Preferences for me.
objc[25368]: GC: forcing GC OFF because OBJC_DISABLE_GC is set
yup System Preferences Crashes. but
if u already purchase the app and have the llicence file present in /Lib
and dont want to change ur Preferences .
just run ~/Library/PreferencePanes/LazyMouse.prefPane/Contents/Resources/L azyMouseBG.app
it will work ..
if llicence is already activated then u can also change the app Preferences from
~/Library/Preferences/com.oldjewel.lazymouse.plist
if u r like me and using this app from Mac 10.3 then .
these are your llicence files .
~/Library/Preferences/oldjewel.lazymousereg
~/Library/Preferences/lazymouse.reg
Found my files and added them back. It's not going to default button but goes to cancel. At least it's close now.
open ~/Library/Preferences/com.oldjewel.lazymouse.plis
change 'snapToAlternateButtonInstead' to NO 😎
i still haven't managed to find a way to make it work.
i'm using 10.9.3 mavericks and lazymouse 2.5
i have added/Library/PreferencePanes/LazyMouse.prefPane/Contents/Resources/LazyMouseBG .app in the login items and the process runs but the cursor does not move
when i try to open the prefpane i can see before it crash that the "move to default button" option is selected
any help would be highly appreciated.
note : i can make it work if i run : nohup /Users/<user>/Library/PreferencePanes/LazyMouse.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Laz yMouseBG.app/Contents/MacOS/LazyMouseBG > /dev/null 2>&1 &
but only if i do it manually, i can't make it work from adding it to startup
"if u r like me and using this app from Mac 10.3 then .
these are your llicence files .
~/Library/Preferences/oldjewel.lazymousereg
~/Library/Preferences/lazymouse.reg"
I had to set up a new Mavericks system, and while I have the original registration code available, I don't have these files in my ~/Library/Preferences
Is there any hope also for me?
fkuebler wrote:
"if u r like me and using this app from Mac 10.3 then .
these are your llicence files .
~/Library/Preferences/oldjewel.lazymousereg
~/Library/Preferences/lazymouse.reg"
I had to set up a new Mavericks system, and while I have the original registration code available, I don't have these files in my ~/Library/Preferences
Is there any hope also for me?
YES!
Anybody who still has their original registration mail can easily create these files using any text editor.
In ~/Library/Preferences/oldjewel.lazymousereg, enter your registered user name.
In ~/Library/Preferences/lazymouse.reg, enter your registration code.
In both cases, do NOT press enter at the end of the line. Just enter the information, save the file and you're done.
NewMacMan wrote:
I've been searching for just exactly this!! Their website is no longer active via macupdate... anybody have any ideas? Subistutes? I'm about to have to do 1600 repetitive actions that can only be done manually and each one requires that I click a default dialog box option.. please!?
BTW, you can just download LazyMouse 2.5 directly from MacUpdate.com. Registration is another story, unfortunately.
Substitute for Lazy Mouse
