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by cheetor 1631 days ago
Mouse acceleration: to disable it I've been using SteelSeries ExactMouse Tool (https://steelseries.com/engine -> expand Miscellaneous at the very bottom). It's very lightweight and I just install it once and never think about it again.

Mouse scrolling: I always found this to be a bad experience on OSX/macOS so I've been using Smooze. It allows you to set the scroll curve to your own liking. It has other features that I don't use and although it's not free, iirc it was cheap and definitely worth it.

Window management: a lot of others have mentioned great tools like Rectangle, but I've found Moom to be slightly better for my use cases. I prefer it over Rectangle (although Moom doesn't have window snapping so I actually use both) because you can set a custom grid e.g. 12x12 and have windows resize anywhere on the grid. With Rectangle, you can only choose from the (many) presets but unfortunately no customization.

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You might want to look at the Command-line options[1] for Rectangle. For instance, if you want the "AlmostMiximized" size to be not so big, you can set that to something of your choice, similar to the 12x12. Hope that helps and you can reduce to one app instead of two. :-)

1. https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle/blob/master/TerminalCo...

Disabling mouse acceleration that way hasn't worked right since Catalina at least, maybe even since Mojave. You can test it with a high-resolution gaming mouse: slide it across your mousepad once as slowly as you can, and then flick it across once. There's still a difference in how far the cursor travels, even with SteelSeries ExactMouse.

The only tools I know of that actually work for this (if you comoletely disable speed/sensitivity controls as well as acceleration) are SteerMouse and CursorSense, which use some kind of driver hack: https://www.plentycom.jp/en/index.html