Change the mouse wheel scrolling acceleration

Hope you're still reading - I highly recommend one of the third party mouse managers like SteerMouse or USB Overdrive or ControllerMate.

I found the arch of the Magic Mouse just too low and went back to the old reliable Logitech MX Revolution, but I will never install Logitech software again without an excellent reason. These packages will let you configure all of the buttons and SteerMouse (haven't verified for the other two) will definitely let you specify linear or accelerated wheel scrolling with variable degree of acceleration.


After many years of frustration with macOS & wheel mice, I've developed Smooze. Disabling the scroll acceleration and setting the number of lines you want to move on each tick are free features.

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Smooze website


USB Overdrive changes the default scrolling behavior so that single ticks of a scroll wheel scroll in larger increments.

It also has an option to for example make a single tick always scroll a single line. It also supports changing the tracking (but not scrolling) acceleration, like SmoothMouse or MouseAcceleration.prefPane.