Smoothmouse. drivers#
Smoothmouse. update#
Smoothmouse. driver#

These have been really simple to implement yet REALLY effective.įor starters, i don’t think full-on apps Sterrmouse or CursorSense can really give the “quick yet accurate feeling” we’ve all been looking for in Sierra na High Sierra.Īnd while I’ll admit Steermouse comes close, and although these recommendations are old, they have been working much MUCH better for me as of late as far as a quick easy fix.

Smoothmouse. update#

Update #3 (February 2017): we’re resuming R&D on our own and pausing the bounty program until further notice. Update #2: thanks to Nick Aldwin, who agreed to contribute $200, bringing the total up to $1000. Update #1: thanks to Seph Soliman, who agreed to contribute $300, bringing the total up to $800. Relevant open source code: Mouse Movement Recorder, IOHIDFamily, Karabiner Elements, Seil. For any inquiries don’t hesitate to email me.

If you’d like to chip in to raise the stakes please let me know. Until it happens, please consider the project frozen indefinitely. If a solution requires ripping the OS apart (patching system files etc) or works only in some specific versions of macOS, it is of no use for us. Obviously the solutions need to be useful for and applicable to SmoothMouse development. Update (February 2017): we’re resuming R&D on our own and pausing the program until further notice. It’s very likely that what we need is impossible, but I’m going to try my luck and offer a small bounty- the first person who finds these solutions and sends a proof-of-concept will be awarded $500+$300+$200=$1000. The person who forwards this task to the genius who gets the bounty, will also get $50.

Inject pointer movements with relative coordinates without incurring a performance penalty, breaking games and macOS accessibility features (such as shake-to-find and screen zoom).

Smoothmouse. driver#

Suppress the “system driver” if necessary, i.e. prevent the events from a given device from reaching the default driver and moving the mouse pointer.

Read raw x-y coordinates from connected mice and trackpads and tell one device from another.

To make SmoothMouse reliably work in Sierra and subsequent releases of macOS, we need to find new ways to: The only way out is to find someone who can dig deeper than we can imagine. When you need to do something like getting raw coordinates from a mouse, you end up in uncharted waters-there’s no documentation, no code samples, nobody knows anything. We’d have to throw away a lot of essential code, yet we’d have nothing to replace it with. I mentioned that Apple had deprecated IOHID system calls, but it’s actually just a tip of the iceberg. Like I’ve said before, we can’t just move things here and there to make SmoothMouse work in macOS Sierra.

Smoothmouse. drivers#

Now that the pointer lag is fixed in the newer versions of macOS, I was hoping our users would find other 3rd party mouse drivers more useful for they provide more acceleration controls than SmoothMouse. Some switched without any complaints-others, however, hated everything they tried. (Probably a minority, but as a someone from a minority of those who complained about the lag before SmoothMouse came out, I can relate). The discontinuation of SmoothMouse seems to have upset many people.