Linux Magic Mouse

I've been using Ubuntu Desktop as my primary OS for some time. And the mouse I've been using has been the Apple Magic Mouse 2, which Ubuntu does not natively support. I gathered as much information as I could and created this script to solve that problem.

Requirements

• The device(s) MAC-address
• Apple Magic Mouse 1 or 2
• Ubuntu 18.04 (Maybe 20.04?)

How to use

1. Download or copy the scroll.sh file
2. Run the following commands:

Run the script using sudo, this is required in order to control the bluetooth service, otherwise the script will fail.

$ chmod +x ./scroll.sh
$ sudo ./scroll.sh

3. Adding multiple devices (optional):
In order to add multiple devices add the following code after line 4 (repeat for each connected bluetooth device):

sleep 1s
echo 'connect MAC-ADDRESS-OF-DEVICE' | bluetoothctl
sleep 5s

If you are using multiple bluetooth devices, add each separate device to the script. Since the script will disconnect all current devices.

Personal Best Practices

• Adding a simple alias for the script like alias scroll='/path/to/script/scroll.sh' to the .bashrc file.
• Place the file in the user's root folder ~/scroll.sh.
• Add the script to a cron-job, preferably on boot with the crontab -e command. Add @reboot PATH/TO/SCRIPT to the bottom of the script.