10.4: Use Mighty Mouse driver to customise other mice

Sep 28, '05 06:22:00AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

Tiger only hintI use a Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse (MX700) connected to a Belkin KVM switch to control both a WinXP Pro Dell I8000 laptop and an Apple PowerBook 17 1.67 GHz. Since the Logitech driver for the Mac requires the mouse to be directly connected, it does not function to customize the buttons for me, and the mouse acts as a generic two-button mouse with scroll -- that is, the express up/down buttons, the app switch button, and the side, back, and forward buttons are not recognized.

I just purchased a Mighty Mouse to have in my PowerBook's travel backpack and installed the driver. Unfortunately, the Mighty Mouse control panel only shows up when the Mighty Mouse is actually plugged in. However, after plugging in the Mighty Mouse and setting the programmable buttons to my liking, I then unplugged the Mighty Mouse and put it in my bag for when I travel.

Upon returning to my MX700 mouse, I noticed that the scroll click activated Exposé's All Windows mode, and the back button activated Dashboard -- just as I had ajusted them to do in the Mighty Mouse driver! This is the first time these buttons actually have done anything for me, since the mouse is connected through the KVM. The express up and down, app switcher, and forward buttons still do not do anything. I assume this is so since there are no correspoding equivalents on the Mighty Mouse.

Thought I'd share the love in case anyone else is looking to get more out of their multi-button mouse without the ability to use its own native driver.

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