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Re:An Open Source Mouse and Trackpad Utility for Mac by idle_zealot on Friday June 23, 2023 @09:32PM (#36454545)
- Karabiner-Elements, primarily to map caps lock to ctrl when pressed with other keys and escape when pressed alone, although I also like to bind right command + asdfhjkl to cursor movement keys home pgdown pgup end left down up right respectively.

- yabai/skhd for window management

- brew/mas for package management

- linearmouse to disable cursor acceleration, scroll acceleration, and inverted scroll direction for mice while keeping all those things on for trackpads.

There are other things that I install on my Macs, but these are the programs that I use to fix behavior that I find unacceptable. Additionally I maintain a script of about 50 `defaults write ...` commands so that I don't have to dig around in the settings menus of system applications to configure them to behave sanely (show file extensions and paths, don't reorder Spaces, disable autocorrect, etc).

Re:An Open Source Mouse and Trackpad Utility for Mac by fatboy on Saturday June 24, 2023 @03:35AM (#36456454)
Could you post that script somewhere for us? I'd be interested to see if there are annoyances I'm just living with in there.
Re:An Open Source Mouse and Trackpad Utility for Mac by idle_zealot on Saturday June 24, 2023 @06:29AM (#36457368)
Sure. It's definitely opinionated, but perhaps our opinions align!

https://gist.github.com/idle-z/7fc3d3950b02c441ab522a094e5f4...

Re:An Open Source Mouse and Trackpad Utility for Mac by fatboy on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:38AM (#36466128)
Thanks!