Move mouse mac os
Presenting the minimalistic Automatic-Mouse-Mover(AMM) app!
Ever felt the need to keep your machine awake without actually having to move the mouse pointer manually at regular intervals? Well, not anymore!
Introducing the simplest app that has the sole purpose of moving your mouse pointer at regular intervals so that your machine is kept awake! And best of all, it works ONLY when you are not working, so be rest assured that the mouse won’t start moving on its own without the machine actually being idle.
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How it’s different from other apps
The main difference between this app and other apps is that this app keeps your machine awake, whereas other apps keep your machine from going to sleep. Let me explain.
If you use a messaging app like Slack, they are programmed to automatically change your status to Away when you don’t interact with your machine for a certain amount of time. Apps which keep your machine from going to sleep will not be able to stop that. This app will prevent that, since it is actively keeping your machine awake by moving the mouse pointer.
This comes very close to simulating an actual user using the machine, which the other apps cannot do.
So if you want something that will keep your mac awake as long as you don’t manually put it to sleep, then this is for you!
I always have this app working in the background for me whenever I work from home, so that I can take a break from work, strech my legs, go for a short walk, come back and still have my slack open and set to active! (not having to type in my password every time is awesome, for machines without fingerprint sensors anyway).
Also if I need to go out for longer, I just close the lid, and off goes my mac to sleep!
Work from home benefit
Since this app actively keeps your machine awake, your messaging app will never go on idle and put your status as Away .
You just click on Start , and AMM will take care of moving your mouse whenever it feels that the system has been left idle for a minute. It’s as simple as this.
Install from binary
Download the latest amm.app.zip from the releases page, unzip it, and copy the .app to your Applications folder like any other application.
Since the application is not notarized, you will need to right click on the .app and choose Open.
You will see a scary message that warns you about all the bad things that the app can do to your computer. If you are paranoid (fair enough, you don’t really know me that well) then you can skip to the section which builds the app from source. That way you can see what exactly the app does (You can check that the application makes no connections to the internet whatsoever).
In case you do trust me, once you click on Open , you might encounter an initial Access request which I’ve discussed in the next section.
Install from source
Make sure you have go installed. Once that is done, clone this repo and run Make , it should create the amm.app and open the folder where it was built for you. Copy the .app to your Applications folder like any other application.
Double click on the app, and the cute mouse should appear on your taskbar on top of your screen. Once you click on Start , you might encounter an initial Access request which I’ve discussed in the next section. If not, then you are all set!
Granting access for moving the mouse cursor
While starting the app, you might see a message like the one below or an error stating Mouse pointer cannot be moved .
Don’t worry, it’s nothing sinister, it’s just that Mac doesn’t allow apps to gain accessibility to the computer by default (even standard apps like Automator, Firefox etc. who might want to access some features need to go through the same process).
In order to resolve this error you need to:
Go to System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility and allow the amm app to gain access.
If you still see the error, try to quit and start the app again (the age-old way of fixing everything).
Every 60 seconds, AMM uses Activity tracker to track the various changes that happened in your system during that time, like cursor movement, mouse clicks, screen changes etc. Whenever AMM detects a change in the system, it knows that the system is busy and will not do anything. If not, it moves the mouse cursor ever so slightly, enough to keep your Mac awake for eternity.
All code is public and open-sourced so no worrying if there’s nefarious intention involved in recording your activity or not.
Please feel free to contribute and make this open source app even better! Adding more pluggable activities to Activity tracker will make sure that AMM works even better!
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a minimalistic go library/app to keep your mac active and alive
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Mac OS X — Mouse moves are not smooth nor constant
I have a Logitech optical USB wheel mouse I’ve used for years on my PC (Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista, 7): http://www.clubic.com/shopping-1360-3-logitech-wheel-mouse-optical.html I’m now using it on a Mac mini with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (fully updated), but I have a problem with it.
On my PC, when I move the mouse, the movement is smooth, and follow my hand moves. No matter if the move is large or small, the cursor goes exactly where I send it.
On my Mac, when I move the mouse, it seems to do what I want on large moves, but on little moves the cursor does not respond as well as on the PC. It seems to slow down, as if it had missed some move instructions, as if it was responding only one on two impulsions.
For example, when I try to catch the cross to close a window, I have no difficulties to reach the cross area, but to put the mouse exactly on it to close the window, it’s as if I were moving the mouse on a badly responding surface. It’s hard to reach the cross, like if the mouse was suddenly 2 times slower. Same problem to put the cursor beetween 2 letters on a text to make a precise selection, and other similar things. It’s a nightmare!
I had tried many settings into the mouse control panel but it does not change anything on this problem.
I have also tried 3 other mouses, one wireless Logitech Mac OS compatible, one wired Microsoft and one wired Trust: all have the same problem.
What is happening? Do you know how may I solve this issue?
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It seems like what you are referring to is not a problem with your mouse (as you’ve tried several). I’ll also rule out the silly possibility that you are using all those mouses on a sub-optimal surface, like glass or uneven and rough wood, etc. I think you’re simply experiencing the effect of different mouse acceleration algorithms between different operating systems.
As the physical hand/mouse movement cannot practically be mapped 1:1 to the cursor movement (you’d need a trackpad as big as the screen!), some kind of mapping algorithm between the hand movement and cursor movement is necessary. Mac by default implements it so that slow hand movement maps to a very slow cursor movement (for precise targeting), and a relatively fast hand movement maps to a very fast cursor movement (for moving quickly in a general direction but without fine-level accuracy). On Win machines a bit of this kind of acceleration also exists but it is not nearly as pronounced as it is in OS X. Some Win users switching to a Mac might find this maddening as their muscles and motor skills are used to something different. But same is true for a Mac user switching to Win. I.e. a Mac user might feel that mouse is traveling way to slow when reaching distant parts of the screen, and it’s harder to do fine targeting in a small area. The Mac way does seem to work better the larger the displays are since it’s benefits are more obvious in that case.
The good news is that if you just give it a week or two of constant usage, your muscles will likely get used to it and you won’t perceive a problem at all. Based on your description, you might want to increase you mouse speed a bit though, to split the difference between big broad moves, and tiny, precise ones.
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Mouse Mover 4+
Rock Hound, Ltd.
Для iPad
Снимки экрана
Описание
TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR WORKSTATION.
Mouse Mover is an app whose sole function is to «fake» mouse input to your computer. Useful for avoiding screen-savers/lock screens that are triggered by inactivity. This means you can stop entering your password 57 times per day!
DO NOT CONNECT your iPhone to your workstation. Just place your mouse over the app screen on your phone. The proprietary/patented imaging technology fools the mouse into thinking it is moving — deactivating the screen saver/lock screen. (You may need to experiment with the angle of the mouse.)
If you’re giving a presentation, or just watching a movie, and you don’t want your lock screen constantly popping up, the Mouse Mover is the perfect app.
Uses:
* Great for remote workers and telecommuters.
* Keep your chat software green during long lunches.
* Stop a screensaver/lock screen when you step away from your desk.
* Stop a screensaver/lock screen when attending a meeting.
* Great for presentations.
* Great for on-line training.
* Stop a screensaver/lock screen when watching a video.
* Keep your VPN up when inactive at your workstation.
* Keep workstation from going to sleep on long operations.
* Stop a screensaver/lock screen when your attention is on another console.
* Stop a screensaver/lock screen from activating during an installation or long operations.
Features:
* Optional deactivation timer — keep your screen up however long YOU want.
* Unlike USB devices, this app is not detectable by system admins.
* Includes settings page to customize the app for your mouse.
* Compatible with iOS-8, so you can use that old iPhone or iPod.
you must disable auto-lock when using this app.
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How to control the mouse in Mac using Python?
What would be the easiest way to move the mouse around (and possibly click) using Python on OS X?
This is just for rapid prototyping, it doesn’t have to be elegant.
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Try the code at this page. It defines a couple of functions, mousemove and mouseclick , which hook into Apple’s integration between Python and the platform’s Quartz libraries.
This code works on 10.6, and I’m using it on 10.7. The nice thing about this code is that it generates mouse events, which some solutions don’t. I use it to control BBC iPlayer by sending mouse events to known button positions in their Flash player (very brittle I know). The mouse move events, in particular, are required as otherwise the Flash player never hides the mouse cursor. Functions like CGWarpMouseCursorPosition will not do this.
Here is the code example from above page:
The pynput library seems like the best currently maintained library. It allows you to control and monitor input devices.
Here is the example for controlling the mouse:
The easiest way is using PyAutoGUI.
To get mouse position:
To move the mouse to a specific position:
To trigger a mouse click:
Just try this code:
it works in OSX leopard 10.5.6
I dug through the source code of Synergy to find the call that generates mouse events:
Now to write Python bindings!
When I wanted to do it, I installed Jython and used the java.awt.Robot class. If you need to make a CPython script this is obviously not suitable, but when you the flexibility to choose anything it is a nice cross-platform solution.
Your best bet is to use the AutoPy package. It’s extremely simple to use, and cross-platform to boot.
To move the cursor to position (200,200):
The python script from geekorgy.com is great except I ran into a few snags since I installed a newer version of python. So here are some tips to others who may be looking for a solution.
If you installed Python 2.7 on your Mac OS 10.6 you have a few options to get python to import from Quartz.CoreGraphics:
A) In the terminal, type python2.6 instead of just python before the path to the script
B) You can install PyObjC by doing the following:
- Install easy_install from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools
- In the terminal, type which python and copy the path up through 2.7
Then type easy_install –-prefix /Path/To/Python/Version pyobjc==2.3
**ie. easy_install –-prefix /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7 pyobjc==2.3
If easy_install doesn’t work the first time you might need to install the core first:
**ie. easy_install —prefix /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7 pyobjc-core==2.3
C) You can reset your python path to the original Mac OS python:
- In the terminal, type: defaults write com.apple.versioner.python Version 2.6
***Also, a quick way to find out the (x,y) coordinates on the screen:
- Press Command+Shift+4 (screen grab selection)
- The cursor then shows the coordinates
- Then hit Esc to get out of it.
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Использование жестов трекпада и мыши на Mac
Если на Mac есть трекпад Apple или мышь Magic Mouse, Вы можете использовать жесты: нажатие, касание, сведение и разведение пальцев, смахивание. При помощи жестов можно менять масштаб документов, перемещаться по спискам музыкальных композиций и веб-страницам, поворачивать фотографии, открывать Центр уведомлений и выполнять другие действия.
Жесты трекпада
Одним или несколькими пальцами Вы выполняете на поверхности трекпада различные жесты: нажатие, касание, движение, смахивание и так далее. Например, для перемещения по страницам документа нужно смахивать влево или вправо двумя пальцами.
Чтобы посмотреть все доступные жесты трекпада на Mac, а также включить, выключить или настроить жесты, выберите меню Apple
> «Системные настройки», затем нажмите «Трекпад».
Жесты мыши
Одним или несколькими пальцами Вы выполняете на поверхности мыши различные жесты: нажатие, касание, движение, смахивание объектов. Например, для перемещения по страницам документа нужно смахивать влево или вправо одним пальцем.
Чтобы посмотреть все доступные жесты мыши на Mac, а также включить, выключить или настроить жесты, выберите меню Apple
> «Системные настройки», затем нажмите «Мышь».
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