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I'm playing Minecraft on a mac, and I'm using a Logitech Revolution MX. When scrolling in the game, it flicks through my items very quickly, rather than one item-per-click scrolling than I get in Windows. Is there any way to get sensible scrolling through items?

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Does the mouse have smooth scroll on it? If so, replace your mouse. – Ronan Forman Aug 7 '12 at 11:34
@RonanForman The mouse can switch between 'clunky scroll' and smooth scroll. On Windows these behave as expected. On Mac, even clunky scroll behaves like smooth scroll. – fredley Aug 7 '12 at 11:36
@QAdley Does the MX not have a hardware switch for it? I know my VX did. – SaintWacko Aug 7 '12 at 15:30
@SaintWacko Yup, but regardless of which mode it's on, the scrolling is smooth. – fredley Aug 7 '12 at 15:58
I work in an office with a few Macs, and some of the users around here use Logitech mice. The problem with many of them (that work with both Windows and Mac) is that they behave a little inconsistent-- even between use in OS X and Windows 7, through Parallels. There might be an answer to your question, however, there is a good chance that this may be a bug that you have to live with. – RLH Aug 7 '12 at 17:12
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The hardware button should properly switch between smooth scrolling and single line scrolling, irrespective of the OS its plugged into. I'm not sure why its not working for you.

That said, Logitech Control Center is now supported in OSX, and it works with the Revolution MX. With this installed, you should be able to tweak the scrolling behavior.

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If you go to system preferences > appearance there should be an option to turn off smooth scrolling, I am not sure whether this is for the mouse, or for scrolling windows using the bar at the side however.

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There is no such system preference as 'Appearance', and a search for smooth scrolling has no hits. – fredley Aug 7 '12 at 11:52
@QAdley My source was this. Maybe I was reading it wrong. – Ronan Forman Aug 7 '12 at 12:25
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That article is from 2008, MacOS has changed quite a bit in 4 years... – fredley Aug 7 '12 at 12:48
But you haven't tried to turn off smooth scrolling? (The one under System Preferences -> General: 'Use smooth scrolling') – Philipp Aug 7 '12 at 13:22
@Philipp imgur.com/RAAaD – fredley Aug 7 '12 at 15:59
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