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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue System
Many users of Logitech Keyboard/Mouse combos are familiar with the "warp speed cursor" bug in the Logitech Control Center that has been around since Mac OS X 10.3.6. This bug causes the mouse speed to start absurdly high whenever the Mac is rebooted. It can easily be fixed by opening System Preferences, going to the Mouse pane, and clicking the mouse speed slider, but this quickly becomes tedious.

After Logitech spent several months ignoring my support queries, I wrote this AppleScript as a workaround. I saved this script as an application and added it to Login Items under the Accounts preference pane. Now whenever I log in, the mouse speed is automatically reset to a "normal" value. This script requires that you enable "Support for Assitive Devices" in Universal Access, and will prompt you the first time to do so if it is not enabled. Note that you can change the 6.0 value in the script to any number between 1.0 (slow) and 10.0 (fast) to suit your liking.

Many people have recommended using USB Overdrive instead of the Logitech Control Center, however, USB Overdrive does not support the extended keyboard functions. Those of us with Logitech keyboards as well as mice are stuck with the LCC.
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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: winklebleck on Jul 11, '05 10:13:02AM

Ohh bless you! Though I am having an issue "saving it as an app" I added .app, but it launches classic. Any advice?

Scott



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: rkilgard on Jul 11, '05 10:23:56AM

Thanks! This is fantastic. If you are using this on a laptop, however, you need to change 'click radio button 2' to 'click radio button 3' since the 2nd button is for the trackpad.

This has been a minor annoyance for me since I use the logitech keyboard and mouse in my office and take my powerbook back and forth. Now I can just run this script once I arrive at the office and everything is golden. Thanks again!



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: ever on Jul 11, '05 01:01:29PM

In order to use the script at all you must first copy the plain text code and paste it into Apple's Script Editor. (in your Applications/AppleScript/ folder) Then you can click File->Save As, using File Format: Application (none of the options are necessary)



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: rmcmahan on Jul 11, '05 01:55:09PM

My problem has been that, in spite of having Mouse Zoom to speed up my mouse movement (I like a fast mouse), the mouse (MX500) is extremely slow after switching users. To correct it, I would change both the mouse and the Mouse Zoom pref pane settings in that order. Quite by accident I discovered that when the mouse started moving slowly, I could just quickly unplug my mouse from the keyboard and plug it back in again -- much quicker than than going to the preference panel and just about as quick as calling up a script.



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: pete on Jul 11, '05 10:23:17AM

I've noticed this behaviour, but just ignored it. After a while, perhaps after the first sleep, the mouse was back to normal speed for me.

I never bothered looking into it any further, as the problem seemed to fix itself.



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: pete on Dec 01, '05 07:48:26AM
Now that I have a new iBook with Tiger, I have noticed this all the time - every time it wakes up, the mouse is a speed demon. NOW I use this little script all the time, until I find a bluetooth mouse to my liking.

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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: Juneappal on Jul 11, '05 11:16:59AM

Weird - I don't have a keyboard pref pane. I didn't know I was supposed to, and a month ago I installed mouse zoom to deal with this problem. It still required that I adjust it every time I restarted, though, so this is very helpful

Thanks


(by the way, I changed "com.apple.preferences.keyboard" to "MouseZoom")



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: daver969 on Jul 11, '05 11:20:22AM

I use 2 logitech mice with my laptop, and I find that when swapping in my wireless one the speed goes crazy fast, so I have to adjust the mouse speed dial in system prefs. It'd be nice to have a script that gets run automatically when I plug in the wireless mouse, but I don't know how to program this in Applescript. Is there an easy way to get AS to recognize events like "wireless mouse just plugged in" and run a script like the one given here?



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: ever on Jul 11, '05 12:27:38PM
In short, no. You can save yourself a lot of headache, however, by assigning this script to a function key, so that the speed can be set without using the mouse. I can recommend a freeware app to accomplish this:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18713

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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: mbi on Jul 11, '05 03:22:23PM
Thank you, this was driving me nuts.
(note to self: never buy logitech again)

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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: Makosuke on Jul 11, '05 05:12:37PM

Woohoo!

Oddly, since I was using a rather old version of the Logitech control panel under 10.3 I didn't have this problem, but the upgrade to Tiger coaxed me to the latest version and introduced me to this amazingly stupid bug--surely it can't be that big of a deal to fix, Logitech.

I adore my MX500, but I sure wish Logitech would clean up their driver.



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: magir on Jul 12, '05 02:44:01AM

I really wonder why Logitech cannot fix this issue after YEARS? Anyway, I still use LCC 1.1.1 which is from waht I know the last release not showing this bug. So if you don't have one of the more recent mice and have that driver installer lying around - install it instead. I didn't have any problems with it under Tiger.



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: ar on Jul 12, '05 04:22:26AM

The last time I tried the Microsoft Mouse drivers it had a similar issue. On fast user switch the mouse would go into warp speed until (I forget but it was something like) bringing another app to the foreground.

Short answer: all is not well with Microsoft mice either.



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An AppleScript to avoid a Logitech mouse speed issue
Authored by: alangrady on Jul 12, '05 05:34:01PM

Hey THANKS!

I love it when I come across a hint that hits home so perfectly with something I need. It was just a little annoying to have to go and 'touch' mouse preference after boot up, but still...

thanks again.

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Alan Grady



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