Kevin C. Wong

Apple Magic Mouse 2 (2015) [/]

I previously reviewed Magic Mouse 2 and my biggest complaint two years ago was Bluetooth flakiness. Actually I don't remember having any Bluetooth problems in the last year so that must have been solved.

On the plus side, the design means no dirt gets inside and the clicker works differently anyways so input has never been marred by dirt. Battery lasts a long time and you can quick charge in a few minutes to keep playing another hour. It's also small and fits my hand.

But it's time to get a traditional mouse. Two big problems:

I hate activating right mouse button because I'm always accidentally clicking it. Ctrl-click for right mouse works well most of the time except in games and apparently my company remote desktop client. The latter is now a big problem.

In VLC, which I use all the time, swipe up and down changes the volume so I'm always accidentally changing the volume. Strange since I don't have a problem accidentally doing vertical scroll in other apps. I guess VLC sensitivity is real high.

Oh wait, How to Use Mouse Gestures in VLC Media Player. Sure enough if I go to VLC preferences there is a Show All button which shows advanced settings. I totally thought that button did something different, though not sure what that would have been in my mind. Interface > Hotkey settings > Mouse wheel vertical axis control > Ignore. Mouse wheel horizontal axis control > Ignore (this jumped video forward and back which I also found annoying but accidentally did this less often).

Hmm, that didn't do anything. Oh, had to restart VLC. This is great!

So now can I fix my company's Secure Global Desktop Client settings? Nope. Found the user manual and does not have any way to configure that.

But I fixed the VLC annoyance and I think for now I can live with turning on secondary click when using SGDC. So I guess that upgrades Magic Mouse 2 from [-] to [/]. Still not the perfect mouse as I think the trackpad stuff is not as useful as the old Apple Mouse with small trackball that also functioned as right mouse button.