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<blockquote data-quote="remain" data-source="post: 397203" data-attributes="member: 23182"><p>I believe that the Mighty Mouse has 2 sensors where your two fingers rest on the mouse.</p><p></p><p>And if the left sensor detects that your finger is touching it (even if you're not <strong>pressing down</strong>), it will act as a left click.</p><p></p><p>One solution is basically to take the index finger slightly off the mouse during the right click.</p><p></p><p>That's mainly why I stopped using the Mighty Mouse and switched back to a regular mouse; I'm simply too used to keeping my left finger on the mouse when I right-click.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Actually, when I first started using Mac OS X, I noticed that too.</p><p></p><p>What I did was increase the speed beyond the maximum using the following trick.</p><p>Afterwards, I didn't "feel" the different mouse acceleration nearly as much.</p><p></p><p></p><p>from <a href="http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/03/turbomice/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/03/turbomice/index.php</a></p><p></p><p>Open Terminal:</p><p>/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app</p><p></p><p></p><p>If you have a mouse: </p><p>defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling (some number)</p><p></p><p>If you have a trackpad: </p><p>defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling (some number)</p><p></p><p>The (some number) at the end of each of the above lines must be replaced by, well, an actual number indicating the speed you'd like to use—the higher the number, the faster the tracking will be. </p><p></p><p>As a starting point, the <strong>default value for maximum mouse speed is 3.0</strong>, and maximum trackpad speed is 1.5. So you might try a starting value of 5.0 for your turbo-charged mouse, and 2.5 or 3.0 for a turbo-charged trackpad.</p><p></p><p>The easiest way to make your changes take effect is to log out and then log in again (Apple menu: Log Out user name). Upon login, you should have a more responsive input device. Just take it a bit easy with the increases, as you may find super-fast speeds unusable. Also note that if you ever happen to move the speed slider on the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel again, you’ll override your turbo settings. Just repeat the above Terminal command to reset it.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I believe I set it to around 4.0. You can try to play around with it and see how it "feels" at different speeds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="remain, post: 397203, member: 23182"] I believe that the Mighty Mouse has 2 sensors where your two fingers rest on the mouse. And if the left sensor detects that your finger is touching it (even if you're not [B]pressing down[/B]), it will act as a left click. One solution is basically to take the index finger slightly off the mouse during the right click. That's mainly why I stopped using the Mighty Mouse and switched back to a regular mouse; I'm simply too used to keeping my left finger on the mouse when I right-click. Actually, when I first started using Mac OS X, I noticed that too. What I did was increase the speed beyond the maximum using the following trick. Afterwards, I didn't "feel" the different mouse acceleration nearly as much. from [url]http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/03/turbomice/index.php[/url] Open Terminal: /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app If you have a mouse: defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling (some number) If you have a trackpad: defaults write -g com.apple.trackpad.scaling (some number) The (some number) at the end of each of the above lines must be replaced by, well, an actual number indicating the speed you'd like to use—the higher the number, the faster the tracking will be. As a starting point, the [B]default value for maximum mouse speed is 3.0[/B], and maximum trackpad speed is 1.5. So you might try a starting value of 5.0 for your turbo-charged mouse, and 2.5 or 3.0 for a turbo-charged trackpad. The easiest way to make your changes take effect is to log out and then log in again (Apple menu: Log Out user name). Upon login, you should have a more responsive input device. Just take it a bit easy with the increases, as you may find super-fast speeds unusable. Also note that if you ever happen to move the speed slider on the Keyboard & Mouse System Preferences panel again, you’ll override your turbo settings. Just repeat the above Terminal command to reset it. I believe I set it to around 4.0. You can try to play around with it and see how it "feels" at different speeds. [/QUOTE]
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