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X-Mouse Button Control is not available for Mac but there are some alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The most popular Mac alternative is SteerMouse. It's not free, so if you're looking for a free alternative, you could try Smoothmouse or USBOverdrive. Download Mouse Accelerator - Enable or disable mouse acceleration at any time by simply clicking a system tray icon, with the help of this tiny, open-source program. The 1.1 version of Mouse Acceleration.prefPane for Mac is available as a free download on our software library. The application lies within System Tools, more precisely General. This free software for Mac OS X is a product of Christian Zuckschwerdt. Commonly, this program's installer has the following filename: mouseaccelerationpref11d.zip. Mac OS’s Mouse Acceleration Issue. A few Google searches will tell you that Mac OS has an issue with mouse acceleration with high DPI mice, AKA “gaming mice”. To add insult to injury, some. Since I was using Microsoft mouse, the first thing I tried was Microsoft IntelliPoint mouse software for Mac. The software recognised my mouse with no issues and clearing 'Enable accelerated scrolling' checkbox restored linear scrolling that I was after. The bad news was that pointer tracking was still suffering from the acceleration 'feature'.

One of the great takeaways from Tim Ferriss’s podcast interview with Noah Kagan was the impact your mouse tracking speed can have on your productivity. By whacking the tracking speed up all the way, you can significantly increase the speed at which you get things done on your computer. If the increase in speed seems too much, give it 10-minutes and you’ll be amazed at how quickly you can adapt to the new speed.

I currently use a MacBook and have had the trackpad/mouse speed all the way up for some time. However, I recently found myself thinking; I WANT MORE!

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Unfortunately, Apple’s upper limit on tracking sensitivity isn’t as high as I’d like. So, I started Googling around to try and find a quick and easy solution for increasing the trackpad/mouse speed.

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I came across an app called BetterTouchTool that lets you customise the tracking speed and add a tonne of other trackpad functionality to your computer. It looks nice, but all I wanted to do was increase the trackpad speed without fluffing around with a tonne of other features and settings (plus I’m overly cautious about adding unnecessary apps to my computer when a simple terminal command or Automator workflow will do).

It didn’t take long, but I found a way to customise the trackpad speed using Terminal.

Use the following steps to increase your trackpad sensitivity:

Step one: Open Terminal (located in the Utilities folder of your Applications. Or Spotlight search “terminal”).

Step two (optional): Enter the following command to view your current speed:

This will return a number that represents the tracking speed.

Step three: To speed up your mouse tracking, you can simply change this number by typing the following command, replacing the “mouse speed” with a new number such as 5.0:

The maximum mouse speed you can access from the System Preferences is 3.0. I changed my speed to 7.0 which is perfect for my liking.

Step four: Restart your computer.