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Use Mighty Mouse driver to customize other mice

might mouse control panelSomeone over at macosxhints.com has discovered you can use the Mighty Mouse's control panel to customize button functions for other mice. Once you've plugged in a Mighty Mouse to acivate the button customization control panel, it sounds like you can swap it for another multi-button mouse to gain limited button customization for the new mouse. The author tested this with a wireless Logitech MX700 which was actually plugged into a KVM, so I'm assuming this might not work with every multi-button mouse you can get your hands on. Nevertheless, it might be handy to know for those times when you either don't have your specific mouse's software available, or worse yet: your mouse's software doesn't even work with OS X.
 

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Someone over at macosxhints.com has discovered you can use the Mighty Mouse's control panel to customize button functions for other mice....
 

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Albert

Intellectually drafted article. seems to grab attention at once.The writer has a good knowledge of the subject and makes reading interesting.

September 29 2005 at 1:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gerb

I have noticed this behavior as well. For my Powerbook, I use an Apple Mighty Mouse and a Fingerworks iGesture touchpad (sadly now out of production). When I installed the Mighty Mouse drivers, I was annoyed to discover that the drivers had re-mapped my middle-click to the "Show Dashboard" action on both pointing devices. I was disappointed at this, because I use middle-click heavily in Safari and Camino to open links in new tabs. So I was unable to get the Mighty Mouse to set the Scroll Ball click to be Dashboard without affecting middle-click on my other pointing device. But that's not a big problem - my Dashboard hotkey is within easy reach, and I even mapped a custom gesture on my iGesture to activate Dashboard. :)

September 29 2005 at 1:28 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ray Gossen

Sounds intriguing (I have an MX700 myself, and the Logitech drivers are next to useless on OSX - I use USB Overdrive, but still can't program some of the buttons the way I'd like). One big problem though - it sounds like I have to get my hands on a Mighty Mouse to get the ball rolling - I don't know anyone who has one, and I'm sure not going to buy one just so I can use my MX a little better.

September 28 2005 at 8:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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