What kind of remark is that? Apple is suppose to be writing device drivers for Logitech's webcams? Or do I misunderstand your comment?
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What kind of remark is that? Apple is suppose to be writing device drivers for Logitech's webcams? Or do I misunderstand your comment?
Which one is button five? I'm not at the computer with the Logitech mouse at the moment. Also, which browser are you using?
This is Button Number 5, on my PC its a Back Arrow for Browsers
I'm using FF 2.0.0.1
The Key Shortcut for Back on a Mac (FireFox), while using a Browser is Command>Back Arrow (Home button on my PowerBook G4).
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard
This is Button Number 5, on my PC its a Back Arrow for Browsers
I'm using FF 2.0.0.1
The Key Shortcut for Back on a Mac (FireFox), while using a Browser is Command>Back Arrow (Home button on my PowerBook G4).
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard
In the mouse set up the "key" should be the left arrow and the "modifier" should be the command key
I really wish Apple would set up OS X to guide users through making non-admin accounts so that they wouldn't have permissions to do things like this in the first place....
I'm incline to agree, however being a Beta tester at heart I like experimenting with all the possible elements.
That's a little to vague. This is what I'm looking at:
When I go to Expose and click on one of the blank areas and select button 5, there isn't anything for me to config or set up as Command>Back Arrow.
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I'm slightly confused by this talk of right button click on non-apple mices. My wonderful Mighty Mouse just bit the dust after a year of heavy use. So, temporarily, I plugged in an old PC mouse I had lying around and have been using it for the past week. It works perfectly. Right click on the right button has all the same options come up as when I used the Mighty Mouse, it saves images, downloads linked file, copies etc. Furthermore, if I click on the scroll-wheel it triggers Expose like a champ. I doesn't have additional buttons, so I can't program it for stuff like Dashboard. However, the key point here is that I didn't do any mods, or programming or setting - I just plugged it into the USB on my iBook, and it worked "out of the box" (or out of the drawer, in this case). I picked up this mouse a couple of years ago at a Best Buy, it was one of those generic "small" mices or laptop mices - it's a DYNEX model DX-OM20.
Now you got me wondering. Are you guys telling me ordinary PC mice don't work on macs? I was always told they do - and this experience seems to confirm it. Or are we talking about something completely different
I'm slightly confused by this talk of right button click on non-apple mices. My wonderful Mighty Mouse just bit the dust after a year of heavy use. So, temporarily, I plugged in an old PC mouse I had lying around and have been using it for the past week. It works perfectly. Right click on the right button has all the same options come up as when I used the Mighty Mouse, it saves images, downloads linked file, copies etc. Furthermore, if I click on the scroll-wheel it triggers Expose like a champ. I doesn't have additional buttons, so I can't program it for stuff like Dashboard. However, the key point here is that I didn't do any mods, or programming or setting - I just plugged it into the USB on my iBook, and it worked "out of the box" (or out of the drawer, in this case). I picked up this mouse a couple of years ago at a Best Buy, it was one of those generic "small" mices or laptop mices - it's a DYNEX model DX-OM20.
Now you got me wondering. Are you guys telling me ordinary PC mice don't work on macs? I was always told they do - and this experience seems to confirm it. Or are we talking about something completely different
Objectively it really comes down to what your particular needs are and what you want out of your OS/Computer. There are some things I like about the Mac, however I just find that I lean more towards the PC as it just does more of what I want to do.
Now you got me wondering. Are you guys telling me ordinary PC mice don't work on macs? I was always told they do - and this experience seems to confirm it. Or are we talking about something completely different
Pretty much all USB mice work out of the box on a Mac; however, some mice have really specialized features / some users want really specialized features, so they end up using an alternate driver. For instance, in this case, to map a mouse button to a specific key. There are also alternative drivers for the Apple mice (e.g. 1 Finger Snap which adds a hold-to-right-click to the one button mouse, SteerMouse, which offers some additional acceleration profiles and so on) and trackpads (e.g. iScroll and Sidetrack, which add different scrolling capabilities, corner tapping, etc).
It's the age old Mac OS thing. MacOS is not designed for you to tweak every single feature in the way Linux is. It's designed for that "work out of the box" experience. So you have to go and add these things to get these features if they amuse you sufficiently.
*Shrug* I searched for that app on my computer-- it's not there. I haven't downloaded it. I don't know what else I can say.
All I know is that when I go into System Preferences> Dashboard & Exposé I really can use those thumb buttons.
Which version of OS X are you two running?
We're about 10 people using an assortment of G5 and Intel iMacs, MacBooks and PowerBooks, all with 10.4.7. None of our MX 518 can have buttons remapped by System Preferences.
10.4.8.
If you want a mouse button assigned to a keyboard shortcut or non-default function, you need additional software. However, the back/forward and scroll buttons on the mouse work as designed right out of the box for me. The only button that doesn't work is the "extra" one underneath the scroll wheel and buttons.
It works for me in Firefox, but it doesn't seem to do anything in Finder. If you want full and easily configurable support for button remapping and the like, try out USB overdrive (usboverdrive.com), which includes full support for the MX518 mouse. Since I only use the mouse at the desk (when I am working on my PowerBook and not one of my desktops), I have not customized my buttons and therefore don't use USB Overdrive. It sounds like it might be the easiest solution to your problem, though.
I use the delete key on my machine to go back (and shift-delete to go forward), though Command-back arrow works as well. I may have modified a shortcut preference for Firefox, but I can't recall.
The scroll buttons change sensitivity on ours and does not scroll anything. But yes, that works as designed.
The back and forward buttons don't do anything.