Mouse Preferences - Audacity Manual

# Mouse Preferences

### From Audacity Manual

  Accessed by: Edit > Preferences > Mouse (on a Mac Audacity > Preferences > Mouse)

Mac users:

- Use COMMAND in place of Ctrl in the bindings listed on this page.
- COMMAND-Wheel-Rotate (the equivalent Audacity binding on Mac for zooming on the mouse pointer) will only work if you disable "Zoom using scroll ball while holding Command" (or similar) in the System "Mouse" or "Universal Access" Preferences.

Alternatively, hold both COMMAND and CONTROL while zoom scrolling.

  Click on any of the other Preferences sections in the above image to go directly to that Preferences page.

The image above is enlarged vertically from default sizing to show a list of all the available mouse bindings. In the default view you can either scroll to see additional bindings or enlarge the dialog by dragging downwards on its bottom edge.

Currently, mouse bindings are not configurable.

Most of the bindings are for click and drag gestures when using one of the Audacity tools. "Left", "Right" and "Middle" in the list refer to the mouse button to be clicked.

If your mouse has a standard scroll wheel or ball you can also use the "Any" gestures listed above for vertical or horizontal scrolling of tracks on the Audacity screen, or for horizontal zooming in or out on the mouse pointer. Horizontal scrolling and zooming using the mouse wheel or ball will require the SHIFT or CTRL key respectively to be held down. You can also use SHIFT with two fingers to scroll horizontally on Mac Trackpads.

Two-finger scrolling or zooming without modifier key does not work on Mac Trackpads but may work on most touchpads on Windows machines. You may need to apply this touchpad modification or to install special drivers for your touchpad.

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