What's up with the wireless mouse?

This is my first Mac and so far am very impressed with the features and ease of use. My only complaint so far is the wireless mouse. I find it very imprecise and the curser tends to dart across the screen for no apparent reason. I have played with the sensitivity settings and the batteries came in the same package as the ones being used in the keyboard, which works fine. Is this common with the wireless mouse and is there anything that can be done to fix this?

I'm inclined to believe the problem resides with the surface that the mouse is on.
Optical mice can be very picky about the surface.
If you're not already... try to use a surface that is a single, non-reflective, dark color. Avoid woodgrain, anything shiny, or anything with an irregular pattern.
My woodgrain desktop used to drive my optical mouse nuts. I now use a sheet of black paper under the mouse, and it works like a charm.

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Hi Steve,
I just started having the same problem with my mouse. First it started not waking the computer. Today even the space bar wouldn't wake the computer. But I'm more concerned with reconnecting with the mouse. How did you delete the mouse in the Bluetooth devices list? I can't seem to delete it. Is it because I have a USB mouse plugged in until I fix the wireless one? I doubt that has anything to do with it. It sounds like your fix worked, but I can't delete the mouse. Help! Jeri

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hi, I just returned from the Apple Store in Larkspur CA and paired my wireless mouse with one of their computers, but it's won't pair with mine at home. Bluetooth is on and it recognizes the wireless keyboard, see's the wireless mouse but won't pair.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3048
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Hey do you know if the wireless mouse pad works with the ipad 2?

hey do you know if the wireless mouse pad works with the ipad 2?

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Has anyone else noticed that if the Time Machine wireless Backup to a Time Capsule kicks in it interfers with the wirelss mouse? Is there any way around this?

I don't think it has anything to do with the wireless TC. I have Time Machine set up to backup to my network (NAS) drive and I get interference whether I use AirPort or hardwired ethernet, though the hard wired seems a little better. But I still get dropped mouse moves, what looks like "interference" but probably is not. More likely Time Machine and the Mouse are both sharing an interrupt and not sharing it well. The impact of wireless may have to do with the compression and encryption that is going on rather than RF interference.
All of which gets me no closer to fixing it. It's times like this that I long for open source on the Mac ...
I tried the Microsoft mouse driver package (Intellimouse 8.01 for Mac) in the hope that it might install a better driver, but no luck. And since it's the mouse that is getting starved for attention and not Time Machine, it's more likely that Time Machine is the culprit.
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Does Expose work with the wireless keyboard?

I've been trying to use Expose with no luck. I hit F9 and I either fast forward through a video or nothing happens (depending on whether iTunes is on).
I've opened Expose in preferences and confirmed the keys, even changed them to see what happens. Nada. I can only think that it might have to do with the wireless keyboard. I do have Expose set for my mouse but when I deselect that it doesn't change the fact that I can't access with my F buttons.
What do you think?
Cheers,

Julien-
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Try cycling the keyboard off and on. Hold the power button until the green LED goes out. Then press it one more time to turn it back on.
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If that doesn't help, try resetting/rebooting the iPad. Hold both the Home and Sleep buttons for several seconds until the Apple logo appears. Ignore the "Slide to power off" arrow. The iPad will restart in a couple of minutes. Resetting this way will not hurt anything, and sometimes clears up mysterious problems.
Fred

I use an iMac (27" 3.4) and have problems with the Magic Mouse. It does not use contact, but opens useless and unrelated submenus with every click, even on the empty desktop. I can't shift, open or close pages. Has anyone out there the same problem?

I use an iMac 27" (mid 2011). Until recently I had OSX 10.6.8 installed, but both, the HDD and SSD had to be replaced, and I lost all the memory.
After the repair through Apple Care I had OSX 10.7.5. (Lion) installed, which developed a Magic Mouse problem.
Unlike with most users, I have no problems with connection, but grapple with a different kind of erratic behaviour.
All fancy stuff is turned off in the mouse preferences. When I try to move, open or close pages, unrelated submenus pop up and hinder the
required task. No matter how often I click, these menus stay there, and they even come up when clicking on the bare desktop.
It renders the mouse absolutely useless, as no work can be done with it.
The first 'Magic Mouse' had depleted batteries every few days, despite switching it off after use.
I was supplied a new Mouse, which does better battery-wise, but the problems are the same. I can't get a result by clicking on any link, due to
the pop-up menus, so both 'Magic Mice' are totally useless.
At present I am using the old USB mouse from my Mac Pro, and that works still o.k.
The problem are not the mice, but the software. The first 2 weeks after installation of OSX 10.7.5 the Magic Mouse worked though.
I have no idea as to what the reason may be.
Has anyone in the community ever experienced that particular problem. Any hint would be welcomed.
Thank you!

Not using any mouse pad, I have a very smooth desktop. But I just tried to use a sheet of A4 printing paper, but no result, the problem persisted.
Someone on this forum suggested, that USB3 may interfere with the magic mouse.
I have 2 LaCie HDD's about 70 cm away from the mouse, I use them on Thunderbolt. But in operation or not - the result is the same, the mouse plays up! Just now I was clicking the desktop and the mouse created a new folder!!
Thanks for the advice, Bee
Cheers, Gerd

[SOLVED] Thunar 1.6 doesn't drag-and-drop with the right mouse button

Hallo all.
It might be something I've done (though I did delete my ~/.config/Thunar directory before upgrading), but Thunar doesn't let me drag-and-drop with the right mouse button, thus stopping me from copying something instead of moving it, etc. Has anyone else had that too?
Last edited by GordonGR (2012-12-28 14:34:20)

Joel wrote:
anonymous_user wrote:Is it supposed to be with the right-mouse button? I always thought drag and drop was done with the left button?
Could be right-hand user
Come on! Read what GordonGR wrote!
Microsoft Windows, Nautilus, the Haiku Tracker, and probably many other file managers have a feature where, when you right-click or middle-click and drag an icon to a new location, a pop-up menu appears and asks what you'd like to do (Move, Copy, Link). I thought I used to use this feature in Thunar too but it seems to have stopped working in recent versions. Has anyone else had any experience with it?
EDIT: Here's random blogger talking about the feature in an older version of Thunar: http://jeromeg.blog.free.fr/index.php?p … and-tricks So that's good, I wasn't just imagining the feature.
Last edited by drcouzelis (2012-12-12 03:45:05)

Has anyone had trouble with the middle mouse (open in new tab) button lately?

Hi gang. Since v29 came out, I have been having trouble with the middle mouse (open in new tab) button.
Sometimes the button does not register with Firefox. And sometimes FF acts like I pressed it several times.
Has anyone else had any problems? I use an add-on called
'''''[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mclickfocustab/?src=collection&collection_id=33bf10fa-666d-45a2-9bc9-491ce21671c6 MClickFocusTab]'''''
I disabled it but the problem was still there.

''''' "Sometimes the button does not register with Firefox. And sometimes FF acts like I pressed it several times." '''''
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Not registering a click is usually due to a dirty contact. And the "double-click" is when the flat spring looses tension and bounces.
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I thought I had a "DOA" MOBO device, GOT ANOTHER ONE. SAME SHITE.
Even tried the Win64 RC edition, guess what, same problems.
If I am wrong about this let me know (find it hard to belive since I have tested 2 Neo2 Plat, with the same problems).

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How can I access applications if the wireless mouse does NOT work?

I have a new iMac (Snow Leopard) which comes with a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse. Just in case that the wireless mouse does not work, how can I navigate through applications and the screen?
Any advice will be welcome. Thanks and cheers, Veit

Great, it works.
Let me replicate:
Shift-Command-A (on the Desktop, (but how to get there?) to open Apps, e.g System Preferences;
Arrow keys to navigate within Apps;
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Tab to move between options and arrows to change these; and Tab back to the back icon.
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