I want to know how to disable horizontal scrolling for wired mouse (with small roller ball) on Sierra and El Capitan. (Solutions are offered for bluetooth drivers, magic mouse, and older OSes, but they are not applicable and don't work.)
iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12.6)
This is nice. But is there a similar solution for the Magic Mouse/2 in Sierra?
Sierra seems to make the mouse much more sensitive to very slight horizontal movement when clicking on things, often making it difficult to perform the intended action. MagicPrefs will allow you to disable only horizontal scrolling, but at this point MagicPrefs is quite old and seems to present its own problems.
There is also a defaults command which apparently disabled horizontal scrolling in pre-sierra OS's, but doesn't work in Sierra.
Any other solutions?
System Preferences > Mouse. Select Vertical Only. The wired mouse has to be the only mouse that's connected.
Unfortunately this kills both horizontal and vertical scrolling.
buggywhip wrote:
Thanks, works like a charm.
...on Sierra. Unfortunately El Capitan doesn't have the same sys pref.
You're welcome. Actually El Capitan has the same preferences as did Yosemite as did…, etc.
buggywhip wrote:
...on Sierra. Unfortunately El Capitan doesn't have the same sys pref.
Apologies. Neither El Capitan nor Yosemite have the same setting. Never depend on one's memory. Especially a bad memory. 😊
As per this article : Adjust double-click and scrolling speed of your mouse or trackpad - Apple Support
You can disable scrolling for your mouse or trackpad using the checkbox.
Thanks, works like a charm.
...on Sierra. Unfortunately El Capitan doesn't have the same sys pref.
I don't use a Magic Mouse so I don't know but it has no scroll button so my guess is no.
disable horizontal scrolling
