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How do one adjust button settings for Logitech MX518?

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Ramius

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I just started using my Logitech MX518 with my Macbook.
It works with scrolling, and right-left clicking, and cursor sensitivity.

But the other buttons are retarded. When I click down the scrollwheel, I get the OSX Dashboard up. And when I use the Back button, I get exposé. How do I adjust these buttons to do what I want?

Im used to clicking down the scroolwheel for a new pane in web browsing.
 
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Ramius said:
I just started using my Logitech MX518 with my Macbook.
It works with scrolling, and right-left clicking, and cursor sensitivity.

But the other buttons are retarded. When I click down the scrollwheel, I get the OSX Dashboard up. And when I use the Back button, I get exposé. How do I adjust these buttons to do what I want?

Im used to clicking down the scroolwheel for a new pane in web browsing.
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Ok, well your out of luck if your wanting a fix from apple... you have a choice of assigning those buttons to expose, spaces, dashboard, etc...
Otherwise download a driver for your mouse IF THERE IS ONE...probably not... :mad:
Then get annoyed, download steermouse or usboverdrive and then get annoyed at their bad, but at least useful, interfaces... Oh and these won't work if you have LCC installed, which I do :(
----------------------------------- end reading here if bored :confused:

So I'm stuck with having button 4 for expose, which is ironically what I was wanting it for anyway :D Well at least in Finder, I can set different stuff in the games I play :)
In other words Mac=bad OS for mice... that's why so many people with macs install windows on them just to game... No support from companies-limited support from razer... Not to mention the un-usual way the accel and other ways the pointers are controlled work...
That's ALL I don't like about macs... everything else I just LOVE :cool:
 
I've been using Steermouse with my MX518 for years now and quite happy with it. Don't bother installing the Logitech software for your mouse. Grab Steermouse or USB Overdrive.
 
But steermouse costs money? I dont want to pay money for a mouse app lol.

But is there no way to change the button functions on the mouse for free?
 
I'm trying to get the buttons on my Logitech MX518 to go 'forward' and 'backward' on webpages. e.g. In Windows, I would just thumb click the 'back' button on my mouse (instead of cursor click the 'back' button in the browser), and it would go to the previous webpage. On a Mac, when I thumb click the 'back' button on my Logitech mouse, nothing happens.

So is this not possible in Safari?

Edit: never mind. I downloaded Steermouse and that brought back that function.
 
Hey that wasnt bad.
I fixed it with Steermouse too. But the website told me it was shareware, yet no info about any pricing or trials at all. Does it cost money or not?
 
You are right, but it doesn't look like the Apple download site shows the price of any shareware. If you follow the Company link from the Apple download page you end up on the page I linked earlier and can find the price.

Happy t hear it works. It is too bad that Logitech can't write a decent driver for their own devices.
 
Yeah Logitech obviously only cares about quantity and not quality.
Several devices I have from them no longer works because they have not updated drivers. And they always overcomplicate the software to their equipment, so you need dem durd drivers.

But will Steermouse tell me I need to pay all of the sudden then?
Cause there is no "Buy Now" button, nothing within the program itself. So far it seems free!
 
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