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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse System 10.4
Tiger only hintI had some problems with my Mighty Mouse in that the Primary and Secondary clicks were reversed, so that if I had set a clicker to be a Primary (left) click, I would get a Secondary (right) click from the mouse. This can usually just be changed in System Preferences (by just setting it as a Primary where you want a Secondary), but I wanted to set up my mouse so that both the left and right clicker would be a normal/Primary click, and you cannot change both clickers to be Secondary there (had I had a fully funtional mouse, I would just set both as Primary and there would be no problem).

This led me to discover where these settings are stored, and it seems to be in the file com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist in your user's Library -> Preferences foler. Open this file with Property List Editor (installed when you install the Developer Tools), and you can change the settings to whatever you like. What I had to do was to change Button1 to 2 (normally this would probably be 1) and Button2 to 0 and ButtonDominance to 1. After you change this file, log out (I'm not absolutely sure that you need to this but it seems to help) and make sure that you do not change these settings in the Keyboard & Mouse panel again -- that will, of course, reset your changes. You can, however, change the other mouse settings like scroll speed as you like.

You can also use this file to change the behaviour of the other mouse buttons. I wanted to change to scroll ball button clicker to act as a secondary-click (control-click), and I could not do that in System Preferences. However, in the plist file, I just changed Button3 to 1 (on a normal mouse, this should probably be 2).

And remember that you cannot only launch 'normal' applications by selecting them with Other in the pop-up menu in the Keyboard & Mouse prefernce panel. You can also save AppleScripts as applications in Script Editor, and then launch those scripts with a mouse button -- so that way, you can make it do nearly anything you wish. In the plist file, the Class of the button changes to String and the Value is simply the path to the application.
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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse
Authored by: svenbox on Aug 11, '05 11:02:39AM

Great hints! Just wanted to add that in combination with the little application MouseGestures (which got 9/10 by MacOSXHints, the mighty mouse can do almost anything. The great thing with MouseGestures is that the settings are unique for every app. I quickly added mouse gestures for Back, Next, New Tab, Close Tab in Safari, which I think is essential if you're surfing with a mouse instead of a keyboard. Check out MouseGestures here: http://www.bitart.com/CocoaGestures.html



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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse
Authored by: jump420 on Aug 11, '05 11:41:43AM

This is the best thing that has ever happened to my mouse. This and Mighty Mouse will solve all my problems.

Thank You for the great tip!



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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse
Authored by: DougAdams on Aug 11, '05 11:26:23AM

Any ideas how to do a Command-click with the MM's scroll button, rather than a Control-click? Or do we have to wait for an update to the software?

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/



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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse
Authored by: stephenhart on May 07, '09 11:34:45AM

I set up a QuicKey to do command click in Safari.
I then chose Button 3 as the trigger for this QuicKey. Works perfectly.
It does seem as if adding all the modifier keys to the System Preference would be trivial. I assume Apple thinks only a very few would use such things.



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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse
Authored by: mike3k on Aug 11, '05 11:52:18AM

USB OverDrive works great with the Mighty Mouse. I find that I prefer it to Apple's software since it lets you assign modifier keys & keystrokes to buttons. It also supports horizontal and vertical scrolling with the ball. If you've already installed Apple's software, you can regain the use of USB OverDrive by removing AppleHIDMouse.ext from /system/library/extensions



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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse
Authored by: DougAdams on Aug 11, '05 12:08:49PM
According to USB OverDrive folks, an update to USB OD is forthcoming specific for MM.

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Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes
http://www.dougscripts.com/itunes/

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SteerMouse
Authored by: sjk on Aug 13, '05 06:30:24PM
And SteerMouse already supports Mighty Mouse.

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10.4: A few tips on the new Mighty Mouse
Authored by: ddulay on Aug 25, '05 12:58:18AM

I ran into this same problem. On the Mighty Mouse preference pane, the actions performed by the "primary button" and "secondary button" were reversed. The reason why is that I previously used a Logitech mouse and reversed the buttons on the basic Tiger preference pane because I like to use mouse left-handed.

To fix this, I unplugged the Mighty Mouse and plugged back in the Logitech. Then I opened up the System Preferences and set the mouse button behavior back to default.

Apple's new mouse is pretty cool, but unfortunately I can't get the hang of using it with my left hand. So I'm stuck using it right-handed.



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