Its new INFTYLAB brand is aimed at Mac users, with the six-button M Mouse in the lead and new products on the way including a lightbar engineered for Apple’s iMac. It even comes in only white, which for a long time was the only color that Apple made its mice, after the boxy Beige period, of course.
Which Mac trackpad gestures does the M Mouse support?
Its real claim to a close and genuine relationship with the Mac is its dedicated INFTYLAB Glide software that can map trackpad and Multi-Touch gestures to the mouse’s shortcut buttons that should make mouse scrolling feel more natural to us.
You can customize scroll modes and map shortcut buttons; for example, making the scroll direction match your Mac trackpad. Choose “Natural” in the Glide desktop app for traditional mouse scrolling, where moving the mouse’s top scroll wheel down pulls the page content down with your fingers—mimicking the direct, touch-like feel of a MacBook trackpad. Or pick “Standard”, where moving the mouse wheel down pushes the page content up like a traditional PC mouse wheel.
If you are expecting a bunch of other Mac trackpad gestures such as pinch-to-zoom, I’m afraid that’s it. But the default Quick Pie’s options (see below) are kinda similar to swiping in the cardinal directions on the trackpad.
The Left Space and Right Space commands reference the different desktop spaces that you can use in macOS. For instance, you have a video playing in full screen but want to check another browser that was open before the video was played. You can swipe into the other spaces to see that page and then swipe back instead of minimizing the video. Essentially, it swaps you between the different virtual desktops that you may be using. Logitech has similar functions in its software for the MX Master 4 mouse.
You can set the horizontal scroll wheel for zooming. It is a little jumpy when zooming in on pages in Safari, but it performs better on RAW photos—although still less than the standard MacBook’s trackpad zoom’s smoothness. The zooming sensitivity setting is not adjustable in the Glide software.
