Hi Jason, Middle mouse button always worked fine for me with MacPyMOL, using any kind of "normal" mouse (two buttons + wheel as middle button). I haven't tried a magic mouse, but also never received bug reports that those wouldn't work with MacPyMOL.
Could it be that any third party tool interferes here (like BetterTouchTool)? A PyMOL script or plugin could also possibly redefine mouse actions (like https://pymolwiki.org/index.php/Mouse_modes ). You can suppress loading of plugins and pymolrc scripts with the -k flag (launch from Terminal as /Applications/MacPyMOL.app/Contents/MacOS/MacPyMOL -k). It's true that a trackpad doesn't fully replace a 3 button mouse. ALT+click mimics the middle click, but it looks like SHIFT+ALT+drag doesn't work. The mouse action codes are not documented anywhere. But you could have a look at the cButMode names, which are a bit more meaningful: https://sf.net/p/pymol/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/pymol/layer1/ButMode.cpp#l501 Cheers, Thomas On 05 Dec 2016, at 18:39, Jason D. Kahn <jdk...@umd.edu> wrote: > Hi -- > > I use Mac Pymol 1.8.4 / Mac OS Sierra, but this issue has been present > forever. I usually cannot get the middle "M" commands to work, either with an > old button mouse, a Magic mouse, or a laptop trackpad. I have tried Better > TouchTool without success. In 3-button editing mode, the middle button is > supposed to Move or MovO, but it just rotates instead. This makes any sort of > docking much more difficult. > > Also, is there a guide to what all the Mouse Mode commands actually do? MvAZ? > MvSZ? PkTB? DrgM? > > -- > Jason D. Kahn > Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry > University of Maryland > College Park -- Thomas Holder PyMOL Principal Developer Schrödinger, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ PyMOL-users mailing list (PyMOL-users@lists.sourceforge.net) Info Page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pymol-users Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/pymol-users@lists.sourceforge.net