Is there a way to make a hotkey that let's you scroll by moving mouse?
November 17, 2022 9:16 PM Subscribe
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I wish I had a good place to ask this stuff, I feel bad about spamming ask metafilter with these sorts of questions...but I do get good answers, in general. well, I recently set a recurring donation so maybe that's enough to assuage my guilt!!
regardless, here is what I want: I am on a mac, and I like the way in which gestures browse the screen. Alas, I cannot use gestures for physiological reasons (touch pads give me RSI). I was wondering if I could create a hot key (which I'd then bind caps lock to via karabiner elements) that, when pressed, would make normal mouse movement work like a gesture. This would be super useful.
I'm 99% sure this is possible ~somehow, I'm just not quite sure what the somehow is. Maybe some sort of 3rd party app, maybe just knowing how to configure the apps I already have (I have karabiner elements, keyboard maestro, lots of others). Any pointers.
I wish I had a good place to ask this stuff, I feel bad about spamming ask metafilter with these sorts of questions...but I do get good answers, in general. well, I recently set a recurring donation so maybe that's enough to assuage my guilt!!
regardless, here is what I want: I am on a mac, and I like the way in which gestures browse the screen. Alas, I cannot use gestures for physiological reasons (touch pads give me RSI). I was wondering if I could create a hot key (which I'd then bind caps lock to via karabiner elements) that, when pressed, would make normal mouse movement work like a gesture. This would be super useful.
I'm 99% sure this is possible ~somehow, I'm just not quite sure what the somehow is. Maybe some sort of 3rd party app, maybe just knowing how to configure the apps I already have (I have karabiner elements, keyboard maestro, lots of others). Any pointers.
I also wonder if there's something in your Mac's accessibility settings.
posted by oceano at 10:03 PM on November 17, 2022
posted by oceano at 10:03 PM on November 17, 2022
If you're comfortable writing Lua scripts, I'd take a look at Hammerspoon. Specifically, it looks like there's gesture-related stuff in the hs.eventtap.event module.
posted by panic at 10:13 PM on November 17, 2022
posted by panic at 10:13 PM on November 17, 2022
If you use Firefox, and middle click, then it smoothly scrolls when you move the mouse up or down, until you click. Is that helpful?
posted by Pronoiac at 12:21 AM on November 18, 2022
posted by Pronoiac at 12:21 AM on November 18, 2022
And you can scroll Up by presshing Shift+Spacebar
posted by soylent00FF00 at 7:53 AM on November 19, 2022
posted by soylent00FF00 at 7:53 AM on November 19, 2022
I love my Apple Magic Mouse 2 which allows one to scroll (horizontally or vertically) with a light single finger touch on the top of the mouse - it's analagous to the 2 finger scroll gesture on a trackpad.
Beware that many people hate this mouse, in fact I hated it when I first got it, but after a while I got used to it, and now it's "magic" (ugh).
posted by soylent00FF00 at 7:56 AM on November 19, 2022
Beware that many people hate this mouse, in fact I hated it when I first got it, but after a while I got used to it, and now it's "magic" (ugh).
posted by soylent00FF00 at 7:56 AM on November 19, 2022
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posted by oceano at 10:00 PM on November 17, 2022