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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.
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Marcus Heller said 4:16PM on 9-01-2009
You have saved me! I was worried I wouldn't be able to play Quake Live accurately at work for a second there. I did a little looking around the internets to see if there was a fix, but I couldn't find a thing. Through doing my usual news session, I came across this!
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some Quake Live to play!
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welchb said 4:22PM on 9-01-2009
Yep, this works like a champ with my vx nano and dinovoedge. I was pretty irritated when I booted snowleopard and my mouse was all funky.
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phate said 4:36PM on 9-13-2009
My VX nano also works again after following these directions. My biggest issue was that the exposé mapped button was not working. Now all is well.
takamaru said 4:28PM on 9-01-2009
God send!
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Tim said 6:38PM on 9-01-2009
I 100% agree. I moved back to 10.5 because I couldn't use most of my mouse's buttons...
Dimitris.chatzieleftheriou@ogilvy.com said 4:37PM on 9-01-2009
Alternative you can download the old but trusty SteerMouse :)
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dronkert said 5:15PM on 9-01-2009
Probably even better than copying Expose.app would be to make a symbolic link to it (Cmd-Opt-drag).
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puhsitch said 10:06PM on 9-03-2009
I'm a little late to the party with this comment, but FYI, that key combo creates an alias, not a symbolic link. And an alias won't do the trick.
I found SymbolicLinker (http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/~seiryu/symboliclinker.html), which does the job by adding a right-click menu option in the Finder. In this case, just make sure you rename the resulting file to "Expose.app"
awerhane said 5:13PM on 9-01-2009
Thanks for the Exposé tip. That was killing me! Now my Logitech Revolution VX is back to 100%! (http://lunch.com/t/7ug)
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Jeff Hess said 12:07AM on 9-02-2009
Awesome. Not having my normal shortcuts has slowed me down a lot. Thanks so much for the tip.
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Steve D said 5:45PM on 9-01-2009
anyone know if the Bug with 3.0 drivers in World of Warcraft stuck around in Snow?
I use an Older driver because anything past this version makes the mouse cursor jump to the top left any time you move the scroll wheel...
Love the mouse, but Man they are slackers on driver development...
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PoopSushi said 5:52PM on 9-01-2009
It's fantastic to have my MX Revolution working again! Now if someone can fix QuickSilver...
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Dave Wood said 11:25AM on 9-02-2009
The new beta for Quicksilver (www.blacktree.com) works great on Snow Leopard.
olafd said 5:57PM on 9-01-2009
the sym-link doesn't work for exposé, copying does work though. what i needed more than exposé was spaces actually and that works with the very same trick.
:)
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Dave Wood said 11:37AM on 9-02-2009
Symlinks worked great for me
In Terminal:
sudo -i
cd /Applications
ln -s /Applications/Utilities/Expose.app
ln -s /Applications/Utilities/Spaces.app
PhysicsGuy said 6:19PM on 9-01-2009
Actually, what works better than copying is assigning the correct Expose and Spaces keyboard shortcuts to a mouse button. For most setups:
F8: Spaces
F9: All windows (AKA Expose)
F10: Application windows (AKA Dock Expose)
F11: Show Desktop
(Dashboard still works within the Logitech Control Center.) To setup, you'll need to open up System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Expose & Spaces. Then click on the F8/F9/F10/F11 listed next to their components and change it to something else temporarily. Go back to the Logitech panel and open up your mouse. Under "Assigned action" for the desired button choose "Keystroke". Click in the box that appears under "Type a key..." and press the desired F8/F9/F10/F11. Once you've set the buttons, go back to System Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Expose & Spaces. Then you can click on "Restore Defaults" and voila! Everything works, no funky copying and messing with apps. (I think this is a better idea than what the article recommended as you're not changing your SL install in any way.)
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Tristan said 7:08PM on 9-01-2009
Yep, agree with PhysicsGuy here... using the keyboard shortcuts as opposed to moving the Expose.app is a much better long term solution... If Apple decides to update expose.app with 10.6.1, then your copied copy is not going to get updated!
Charles said 7:20PM on 9-06-2009
I owe PhysicsGuy my life!!! Finally because of his post I was able to get expose to work on my mx510 mouse!!! It didn't even occur to me have one of my mouse buttons be "All Windows".
PhysicsGuy said 6:23PM on 9-01-2009
@PoopSushi: It's called Google Quick Search Box: http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/
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JR said 6:56PM on 9-01-2009
Logitech Control Center is such a PIECE OF JUNK. It has caused me many hours of frustration in the way it interferes with other Mac software.
I am very happy with ControllerMate (http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/) for my MX Revolution, which is well worth the $15. It allows you to assign and repurpose any input into your computer. The latest version was updated for Snow Leopard.
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