Filed under: Peripherals, Software
Logitech mouse control in Leopard
We've mentioned the problems folks have had with the Leopard upgrade with unsanity's APE installed. As Gruber points out, however, the same problem can affect people who have installed the Logitech Control Center software that comes with Logitech mice and keyboards, because LCC apparently uses APE behind the scenes. While some finger wagging is due to Logitech for this, the question now comes up as to what to use instead of LCC to gain access to all the buttons. It turns out that there are at least three options: USB Overdrive ($20), SteerMouse ($20), and ControllerMate ($15), all of which are now Leopard compatible. Of the three, I've only used ControllerMate myself and would recommend it. However, any of the three should give you back control of your Logitech mouse -- it's just a shame you have to spend extra money to get this kind of functionality.[via Daring Fireball]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
atFault said 8:14AM on 10-31-2007
Using USB Overdrive here. Works flawlessly with Leopard. I had to reinsall with the latest version (had 10.4.5 before updating to Leopard), but after restarting all my old settings were exactly as they were before. For what it's worth, I cloned my drive, erased the drive, did a clean install of Leopard and then used migration assistant to move it all back. My MX1000 was back in action with minimal fuss.
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shaun3000 said 8:16AM on 10-31-2007
One of the few times I'll give props to Microsoft, but they finally got their OS X mouse & keyboard software right. Back in May they got around to adding Bluetooth support after several versions (and years) without. I'm still surprised Logitech would use APE...
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tp said 8:30AM on 10-31-2007
I'm running Logitech Control Panel on Leopard without a problem. It was installed before the upgrade, and continues to work after.
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Matteo said 8:32AM on 10-31-2007
MX 1000 user here...
Did a clean install of Leopard and installed (though web site) Logitech's control center after Leopard. Thus far no problems to report.
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bob said 8:37AM on 10-31-2007
logitech control center barely worked on intel tiger to be honest, awful software and memory hog.
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jus10 said 8:42AM on 10-31-2007
If you'll forgive me, other than changing the mouse acceleration, what do these programs give me? (Or is that the point?).
I have a 5 button logitech mouse, and buttons 4 and 5 are expose and spaces respectively. Works great. I'm using standard Leopard. The mouse cursor is the standard "slow" Mac mouse but I've gotten used to that.
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davidcsawyer said 8:46AM on 10-31-2007
I've read conflicting reports on how to uninstall LCC. Logitech acts like the uninstaller is in the install folder, but I did not find it there. Can someone point me to some information on how to uninstall? Thanks.
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Luigi193 said 8:52AM on 10-31-2007
I have the exact mouse in the picture!!!!
Yeah we had to uninstall the logitec driver in TIGER! When ever you scrolled in DVD player the whole thing freaked out! It was a mess...
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Pete said 8:55AM on 10-31-2007
Of the three options, ControllerMate is by far the most powerful allowing you to customise even the acceleration curve of the mouse -- although I had no luck getting a Windows-like curve to work. It's also incredibly complicated and the GUI is an absolute nightmare.
I found SteerMouse to be unpleasant to work with, but it did recognise the most buttons on my VX Revolution. In the end I bought USB Overdrive as it had the easiest setup and most pleasant GUI (really not saying much there though -- none of these apps are even close to typical Mac standards of usability). USB Overdrive doesn't seem to recognise the 'search' button on my VX though.
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Dave Lehman said 9:01AM on 10-31-2007
davidcsawyer:
The "LCC Uninstaller" is in the /Library/Application Support/Logitech folder on my system.
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superpantoufle said 9:01AM on 10-31-2007
Hi.
I installed the current Logitech Control Center from their website after a clean install, and it works like a charm for now!
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adisor19 said 9:04AM on 10-31-2007
SteerMouse FTW. It does evertyhing i want and it's simple enough to use that anyone can figre it out.
I wasn't aware of ControllerMate but maybe i'll give it a try seeing that you can adjust the acceleration curve ! :O
Are there standard Windows acceleration profiles that i can import for it ?
Adi
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rafalski said 9:24AM on 10-31-2007
"I had no luck getting a Windows-like curve to work."
"Are there standard Windows acceleration profiles that i can import for it ? "
Isn't Windows mouse acceleration curve flat?
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Greg G said 9:28AM on 10-31-2007
Ugh. First, I had to download the software from their site, because the Intel version wasn't on their disk. Then an update gives me an annoying reminder when I plug it in, and now this?
wtf logitech?
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Kenny said 9:37AM on 10-31-2007
I'm with David. I am trying to figure out how to install the LCC. Anyone have any advice?
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jm130500 said 9:54AM on 10-31-2007
I used the Logitech S530 for my mac along with LCC and it works flawlessly so far.
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Galley said 9:54AM on 10-31-2007
I don't have a Logitech mouse, but have a Logitech Harmony remote control. I experienced the "blue screen of sadness" as well.
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Edward said 9:56AM on 10-31-2007
I love how everyone rushed to use the "APE" when it was recommended before installing, did it, then got lamed.
Second, what's up with not zeroing out your drive. Yo yo. New OS nubs ... rock it clean and watch it rock. I have the Logi Notebook-lution and the control center works much better than it did in Tiger ... err, 10.4.9, and my machine is still fast.
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Thomas said 9:57AM on 10-31-2007
I'm no fan of Microsoft but my Trackball explorer died recently and I've not found anything to properly replace it. The logitechs are OK but the software is very poor.
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Mann said 10:16AM on 10-31-2007
I did an archive and install, reinstalled LCC from a newer download from VersionTracker and all is fine for me. I have a MX 500 mouse though.
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