Snow Leopard: Get your Logitech mouse & keyboard working again

Alan over with iPhoneXpert.com sent us in a tip on getting your Logitech mouse to work again after installing Snow Leopard. I didn't get a chance to try this out until my copy of Snow Leopard arrived last night. My keyboard/mouse combo of choice is the Logitech Wave Cordless Desktop (a fantastic combo that is well-suited for Mac users), and the OS upgrade did break the specialized configuration set up for them.

Logitech has not updated its drivers -- usually bundled with its Logitech Control Center application -- for Snow Leopard yet, and an upgrade to the software will take some time, Alan reports. In the meantime, you can work around this issue by doing the following:

Re-download Logitech Control Center 3.0 if you do not still have the installation package on your machine.
Unzip the download, then right-click on the installer package. Select "Show All Contents."
Navigate through the package to the Contents folder, then the Resources folder. There, you'll find the Logitech Control Center.mkpg. Double-click on it and install it.

Once your system has rebooted, you'll find that you regain full access to customizing your Logitech mouse (and it works for keyboards as well.) It even carried over all of my customized keyboard button settings from Leopard, so you shouldn't have to go through much hassle to reconfigure your equipment. The only thing I had to readjust was the scroll speed on my mouse.

If you have Exposé as one of your mouse/keyboard button settings, copy (do not move) the Expose.app file from /Applications/Utilities to the /Applications folder. Then Exposé will work properly again.

Thanks for the tip, Alan!

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gajahduduk

Has anyone noticed any audio devices missing after doing this hack? I had been having that problem I think due to a different kernel extension which I eliminated, but when I installed this, it happened again after a restart.

September 16 2009 at 8:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

kuzya

Thanks a lot man! copying expose to app folder made my "search" button on my MX620 mouse to work again

September 13 2009 at 8:18 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

arecbarrwin

Physics Guy:

You rock. Worked like a charm.

September 11 2009 at 9:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jan

Thank you so much . You saved me hours of frustration and irritation.
The reloading of the software works perfectly !

September 10 2009 at 6:17 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Lordaj44

I've got LCC 3.0 on SL with a wave keyboard.
Basically everything is working except the LCC Dameon must have a problem with SL : it keeps going back randomly from Logitech French Layout to Vanilla Mac French Layout, which is quite irritating.

September 08 2009 at 6:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

textbrandon

Upgraded Leapord > Snow Leapord...so I reinstalled LCC as above to avoid the relaunch prefs. warning.

I didnt have to copy/link Expose.app. I selected "Launch Application" as the LCC Button Action and pointed that to the new location of Expose.app (in /Applications/Utility). Works fine here.

September 08 2009 at 4:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sam J

I just did a fresh install of snow leopard and the install from the content folder does not work.. I get to the point where I select the location upon clicking on install it flickers shortly and that was it.
I had however on another machine successfully employed the expose/spaces trick, but that was an updated leopard.
Does anyone have a suggestion how to get it all rolling on a clean snow leopard install ?
Thanks

September 06 2009 at 1:24 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brad Owens

Just another reason why I'm not upgrading to Snow Leopard

http://bit.ly/1hyCt3

September 04 2009 at 4:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Cesaro

How do I change the setting of the 'thumb back button' of my MX RevolutionÂ® so when I click it when I'm on the web it goes 'Back' (Previous Page)?

September 03 2009 at 11:21 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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textbrandon

A keyboard combo for "back" (in finder and browser) is "command + [ " (thats command, left square bracket). Forward is command + ]

You set that up in LCC as a "keystroke" and use the command (looks like a 4leaf clover) modifier key

September 08 2009 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

cg0def

sadly the drivers do not work with 64bit kernel ... time for an update logitech ... after all there is a 64bit windows driver ...

September 02 2009 at 3:08 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply