Substitute for Lazy Mouse

"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."

Thank you so much for granting this layman access into such an exclusive club... ;-) My LazyMouse works again.

But when I tried to fiddle a little bit with the App preferences...

"open ~/Library/Preferences/com.oldjewel.lazymouse.plist

change 'snapToAlternateButtonInstead' to NO"

...and installed TextWrangler (sort of a free BBEdit Lite), I was immediately lost. The com.oldjewel.lazymouse.plist appeared like the following and I didn't know how to change something:

...

</dict>

I suppose, that the above "NO" was allegorically meant and that I had to remove the XML <false> in the line below snapToAlternateButtonInstead, but I was not able to do even that without getting strange messages when trying to save the file.

Is there a display option for TextWrangler suitable for laymen, or a different editor? If not, how do I then change this in the right way within TextWrangler?

Thank you for your patience.

Your text editor seems to be doing everything correctly. The issue is that a PLIST file is actually an XML-formatted file. So, while it's just plain text, it has all those funky keys and whatnot in it.

The <false/> is already a 'no' value for the key above it. So, that seems right. As for getting strange messages, I'm guessing that you need to edit the file with administrator privileges. PLIST files are system files and need to be edited as such.

Thank you for caring. Unfortunately I had expressed myself in a layman way ;-)

"The <false/> is already a 'no' value for the key above it. So, that seems right."

I was aware of that, but just for testing, I wanted to change this to Yes. So I removed the <false/> line, but then I was not able to save the file. But just an idea comes to my mind: I will try to change the <false/> to <true/>

YES, this works!

Thanks so much to everybody.

Is there any hope for Yosemite?

I emailed to developer of PinPoint Mouse Enhancer requesting that he consider adding this feature. He said he is. Any additional emails to him might help the cause. I, too, miss the functionality of Lazy Mouse in Yosemite.

I mailed to them as you suggested. Let's hope for something real happening before we are all dead... ;-)

Hope is arising. I'll post the answer which I received today:

"Absolutely, I have it running, but it seems I cannot publish this to the App Store as it fails to work when the app is sandboxed.

I have now integrated it in PinPoint Pro, but I am not done with other changes in the next version, so it is taking a bit of time to get it published and get back to you…

trying to get it done this week.

- Renaud"

Found the answer.

Find a machine that runs Mountain Lion (or Mavericks, maybe) and register a Lazymouse > 2.0 (I used 2.2) installation there.

Now transfer the lazymouse.reg file in your user prefs folder to your Yosemite machine.

While the PrefPane still crashes there, you can see that it is registered in the lower left corner (it flashes away while crashing)

I now have full Lazymouse functionality without the reg. nags - running 2.5 on Yosemite.

I guess you can also change user settings on the older machine and then transfer them similarly...

I recovered an old Mavericks (10.9.5) system, and I could install, but not register Lazymouse, because the reference to the Old Juwel website ended in something new, which has nothing to do with Lazymouse. On the Mavericks system Lazymouse worked (though with the register-nag), but I could not find any file for transfer to Yosemite.

So for me it seems finally lost... :-(

The newest version 2.5 does not work with Yosemite but older 2.0.3 works perfectly. Just need to get older version. If you do not have or cannot get reply with email and the older version can be sent to you. This is INSANE that Apple can't fix the crash despite reporting it repeatedly.

pflugernate at iCloud dot com

sent try it

Hi

I need lazy mouse 2.0.3 file, google search turn up nothing.

email

she at icon dot co dot za

Thanks

Hello esy034

I very much look forward to receive Lazy Mouse v.2.0.3:

a-mail at email dot com

Thank you in advance

MyStyle

Easy LazyMouse Fix: Download LM ver 2.5 and install. It will not work... yet

Then go to System Prefs > Security & Privacy > Accessibility, and check the box beside LM (you need to click the lock and enter your pw).

Then reboot

Then go back to Accessibility and RE-check the box.

LM should now work (and no opening the pkg and making an alias)

Hope this helps.