Speed up Mouse Tracking on Mac OS X
Jul 8th, 2007 by tyler
One of my gripes when I switched to using a Mac full time was that I could never get my mouse to track fast enough. After some searching, I found a solution online.
- Open a Terminal Window
- Type the following: defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling your_mouse_speed
- Replace “your_mouse_speed” with your new setting. The maximum mouse speed on mac desktops is 3.0 (when maxed out in system preferences). I changed my speed to 5.0 and it was noticeably better on my 24″ screen.
So my final setting is: defaults write -g com.apple.mouse.scaling 5.0
Thats what u get for using a Crapintosh…Grief!!!
nice tip..thanks!
Exactly what I need. Speed up my mouse. Just one problem. What is a terminal window? How do I get too it? Can you give me better instructions?
From the finder menu, choose Go -> Utilities -> Terminal
Didn’t work.