Better Touch Tool Magic Mouse



The most unique feature of BetterTouchTool is the range of input devices it lets you control. You can use your trackpad, Magic Mouse, regular mouse, keyboard, Touch Bar, iPhone or iPad (with BTT Remote), as well as Siri and Apple Remote to precisely trigger the actions you seek. Customize the Touch Bar. BetterTouchTool is an indispensable Mac app that has stood the test of time. The app was one of the first covered by MacStories back in November 2009. In those early days, BetterTouchTool was a simple app for adding customizable gestures to MacBook trackpads and the Magic Mouse. Today, many things have changed in BetterTouchTool.

The release notes are also always available via http://updates.folivora.ai/bettertouchtool_release_notes.html

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  • Some improvements for M1 Macs (in case the update doesn't work automatically on these, please download a fresh copy from https://folivora.ai/)
  • You can now make Caps Lock act as a 'Hyper Key' (a key that automatically presses all standard modifier keys for you). This allows you to define shortcuts like cmd+ctrl+opt+shift+A (which for sure won't interfere with anything) and still trigger them easily by only pressing Caps Lock + A.
    To achieve this just record the Caps Lock key as a shortcut and assign the new 'Act as Hyper Key' action to it.
  • Capturing the special & media keys on a keyboard and assigning actions to them is possible again (e.g. Play, Next, Previous, Eject).
  • The 'Open URL / Open URL with Selection' action now allows to select which Browser to use
  • BTT can now be set as Default Browser. This allows you to run BTT actions based on the URL/App, and e.g. forward specific URLs to specific Browsers. (E.g. always open Microsoft Teams in Edge. It also allows to implement custom logic using scripts to determine how a URL shall be handled.
    For more details see http://docs.folivora.ai/docs/1003_did_open_url.html.
  • Touch Bar buttons, script widgets and menubar items now support SF Symbol icons
  • Added a 'Find Image on Screen & Move Mouse' action, which let's you search for some pixels on your screen and move the mouse cursor to the found position (if any). It's currently pretty basic but if you combine that with some click actions it can make it easier to automate things.
  • The 'move mouse to position' action can now move relative to the corners of the main-screen or mouse-screen.
  • The || operator used in the 'trigger menubar menu item' action will now also cycle between items if one of them is disabled.
  • Many little bugfixes.

I’ve already talked about how BetterTouchTool is a must have for any Macbook user. But I never went on to discuss how BTT integrates with a Magic Mouse (since I don’t have one). This always intrigued me.

Since we are doing some iOS development at work, HQ sent us a Mac Mini with a Magic Mouse. Naturally, I volunteered to setup the Mac for my team with good software (BetterTouchTool, Caffeine, Sublime, etc.) and the like so that it would run beautifully.

The effect of marrying Magic Mouse to BTT is just as breathtaking as Magic Trackpad + BTT. You get the ease of a mouse and no more tired fingers when you’re using Photoshop, Visio or anything involving a lot of clicking and dragging. iMacs, Thunderbolt displays and other widescreen monitors have an exceptional amount of screen real estate, which make using a trackpad really tiresome. It’s even a bit tiresome with a mouse. Thus, by using gestures on a Magic Mouse, you still benefit significantly.

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For those of you who haven’t read the aforementioned post about BTT, let me just say that I’m not talking about the default gestures that Apple gives you with Mac OS X. I’m talking about custom gestures with 1, 2, 3 and 4 fingers on the Magic Mouse–though limited 4 finger usage.

Better Touch Tool Magic Mouse

Using gestures on a Magic Mouse in contrast with the trackpad on a MacBook does take some getting used to. Notably, the Magic Mouse has less surface area than a trackpad. But since you can get both a mouse and gestures, I’d get a Magic Mouse and skip the extra Magic Trackpad any day. I guess that’s kind of a no brainer though. However, now I can say I’ve experienced the ease of making multi-touch gestures on a Magic Mouse. If you haven’t, you’re missing out.