for me @10.5.8 with Magic Mouse, this hint does not work.

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Did you uncheck then check the scroll box?

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Yes, I did uncheck/check the scrollbox. It won't be shown. BUT, the scrolling feature seems to work. Hmmm… strange. Has it maybe to do with, that I'm using german as system language and not english?

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This also works on my G5 with 10.5.8 even though the momentum option does not appear in the preferences.

Thanks.

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OK... For us - dumbasssssses - what is momentum scrolling ????? :-(

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do you use an iphone? momentum scrolling is when you flick your finger up or down the screen and the screen keeps scrolling even though you're not touching it anymore.. useful for long lists like contacts or long web pages.

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I can't find the "Scroll Option" mentioned.

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Works on 10.5.8 for me. Even works inside a Fusion XP session...
The path to the 'scroll option' is System Preferences/Mouse/One Finger/Scroll (Second checkbox of three)

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will this enable momentum scrolling on the trackpad on my macbook pro?

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I just got it to work on my ancient PowerBook G4, much to my surprise. The scroll is pretty jerky though of course.

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Wow - worked for me! 10.5.8 on a MacbookPro. Thanks!

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Totally awesome! Thanks for this great hint.

It makes scrolling on my Leopard running PowerMac G5 fun!

Why Apple excluded this function for Leopard users and the Magic Mouse is beyond me.

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The so called Blue tooth, Magic Mouse & Wireless Key Board has given me nothing but trouble !
I'm running tiger10.4 and and did not upgrade because of all the trouble with my I -Mac ,
This thing really stinks,I bought new ,right before Leopard came out,so That was mine stupid mistake,I did no know at that time about the new operating system coming out in the next 2 weeks .The salesman must have known this and I did ask him if anything new was coming out ! I'm new to Mac and I have trouble with basic things. Crashes,Safari stinks,I can not even open the easy attachments,I mean this thing is a lemon.I have a 3 year warranty,but I get the same results from tech ,and after 2 years I;m so disgusted that I spent $2000 on this Crap! I hardly use it, I use My Girl friends HP lap top and have no problems everything seems to work. Is there a book pamphlet that can help me out ? Apple won;t takes this thing back so I'm stuck with it. Anybody out that could help please feel free

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what you need, my friend is (a) an upgrade to leopard, and (b) someone to sit down with you and get you used to the mac way of doing things. and iMac that late ought to handle leopard (even if it's a G4) and you shouldn't be experiencing these kinds of problems. Im a bit surprised you are, really - macs generally work well right out of the box, even for novices. do you ahve any mac-savvy friends who can walk you through it?

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any hint on doing momentum scrolling with two fingers on a mbpro multitouch trackpad with 10.6? it would be great :)

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Check out Smart Scroll, at www.marcmoini.com

It enables momentum scrolling, and much more, for non-Magic mice, trackballs, and trackpads.

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Another "works for me in 10.5.8" post.

But I might be turning it back off. While I like momentum scrolling in Safari, I don't think I like it very much in iPhoto (version 6.0.6). And my initial impression is that scrolling is sensitive and accidental scrolling occurs more often than I like. On the other hand, I'm still getting use to the mouse.

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Worked beautifully for Dual G5, forever stuck in Leopard. The scrolling is sensitive, but if you ever wanted to flick 2000 rows in a couple of seconds in Excel, you can. If it seems to scroll too fast, you just to take it a little easier; it's a fine touch that will let you move a few rows.

Be sure to follow directions; click off the Scroll button, then click on (it was jerky before that). And no, it won't say 'momentum scrolling' after this change.

Definitely one of the greatest hints (for me, at least).

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I discovered an easier way to enable scroll with momentum on my MBP running 10.5.8. I simply put the machine to sleep and when I wake it up, voila momentum is enabled. I haven't replicated this on another machine but it's worked the last few times I've tried, each and every time. I discovered this on accident when my daughter thought she was doing me a favor by shutting the lid on my machine...she thought it was asleep but it was just the screen that was asleep. When I opened the lid to continue working I was surprised with the different behavior as I scrolled down a page. It even works in vertical scrolling within the virtual machine. Can someone try this and let me know if it works for them too? My morning routine now is start up the mac, put it to sleep, wake then work.

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Day 4 of trying the sleep then wake technique and I couldn't get it to work. I knew it wouldn't last :-) So I just followed the instructions running the line in Terminal to enable momentum scrolling and it works great. This will save me a few minutes a day, awesome.

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Does anyone know how to enable right click on the magic mouse through terminal? My mouse preference is grayed out in this profile. I'll have to rebuild this machine long term to lose the restrictions. In the meantime I would like to be able to use right click. Thanks in advance for the help.

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I'm trying to use the tricks posted here, but am having some difficulties....

No problem posting the code in the terminal - though I don't know what I have a file with that name on my computer. This is odd.

When I go to mouse preferences, I do not see a check box for scrolling. I only see a tracking speed and double click speed sliders. Nothing about scrolling. Any ideas?



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