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10.4: Activate Exposé from Intel Macs' trackpads
Authored by: kostia on Jul 21, '06 02:21:36PM

This works on pretty much any machine, not just an Intel Mac and not just a portable.

At my last job, I used a three-button mouse (the wireless one that came with my Wacom tablet) on a MDD G4 running Tiger.

The Wacom mouse had a third button (a clickable scroll wheel), which OSX recognized as a scroller, but the Expose preference pane did not give the mouse button options.

I attached a Dell three-button USB mouse to the computer just long enough to get into the Expose preference pane, set up the preferences like I like them (button 3 by itself for Expose, command-button 3 for desktop, option-button 3 for application windows), closed the preferences, and disconnected the Dell mouse.

The Wacom mouse's middle button then worked just fine for Expose. OSX seems to recognize the signal as "button 3" even if it doesn't recognize the mouse well enough to give the right prompts in the Expose preference pane.



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