MacOS – How to select login user with keyboard

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I have a 4K monitor and before I have logged in, the mouse moves really slowly on the user login screen. Once logged in, I have configured the Tracking speed in the Mouse System Preferences to move fast. Since there is no known way to configure the default Tracking Speed before I've logged in, is there a way to select a login user without clicking on the user and using the keyboard to select a login?

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You should be able to choose any of the login users either with an arbitrary arrow key (if the user name is somewhere in the middle more than one hit is necessary) & enter or by entering the first letter of the user name (or the first two if you have several names starting with the same letter) & enter.

Then enter the password.

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As far as I know, there is no way to do this without external tools.

Usb Overdrive lets you do this http://www.usboverdrive.com/ and is what I use.

Steer mouse also has this setting. http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/

Mouse Curves http://triq.net/articles/mouse-acceleration-preference-pane-mac-os-x Has the advantage of being free, but Apple removing the acceleration API in 10.6 may have ramifications on its utility.

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This is a two step process. The system make all new accounts from this template:

/System/Library/User Template

Unless you need to only change a specific localization, you'll be putting files into /System/Library/User Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences

The two step process is knowing where to change a file and what change to make.

I don't have an answer to the second part (no Magic Mouse handy), but you might be able to do that part yourself. If you make a new account and change only that mouse preference and dig through the ~/Library/Preferences to isolate the file(s) that encode that change (sort them by date and the newest files should be the ones you changed to configure the mouse). Second, you need to copy that file into the default user template so that when the system makes a new account (guest account or any new account), that user gets the modified mouse settings you have copied into the template to replace the default values for that setting.

An alternate method is to look inside the file(s) to see if the settings can be written easily by a sudo defaults command:

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