Buy me a coffee if you like this project.
Just as the name suggests, the aim of this project is simple - now you can slow your mouse down by simply holding a modifier key. In this way, you can easily align your mouse to a certain pixel. It also works for touchpads on Windows 11 24H2 or later.
It's useful under circumstances such as:
- Dragging some slider such as the volume slider, and trying to obtain an accurate value.
- Trying to resize a window or a box but simply having trouble aligning the mouse to the anchor.
- Trying to select an accurate rectangle of the screen for screenshot or capturing.
- Trying to drag a piece of image to an accurate place. (it's tencent's captcha, isn't it?)
Note: This application is Windows only. It works by changing various settings (details in code here), and will not affect games that are using raw mouse input (e.g. Minecraft 1.14+ under default settings).
If you just want to use it, download exe in GitHub Releases.
Launch the application and you will see a tray icon. Right click it to modify the settings. Note that as of version 1.0.0, the app does nothing by default. You have to enable the slow-down functionalities in the settings.
This application does NOT start on boot automatically. You can configure it to do so by dropping its shortcut into the Startup folder.
To test it, simply run python slow-mouse.py.
To build, run build.cmd. It relies on the pyinstaller package.
Check requirements.txt if necessary.