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From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 7 Apr 2010 08:01 On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:27:04 +0100, jim(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie(a)sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > >> On my featureless MM I have these set up, * thanks to BetterTouchTool: >> Left click, right click, middle click*; >> Single finger is 2D scroll; >> Two-finger swipe left is back, right is forward; >> Three-finger click is previous app*. > >I was using BTT until today. I've now switched over to Mouse Prefs, just >to have a play really. I switched the other way. With this monster 27" screen, I'd taken to using Cinch to get snap-to-half-screen for apps. Magic Prefs conflicts with Cinch if you try and set up a cmd-tab gesture. Otherwise it works fine. I was very happy to discover that BTT does half (and quarter, which I don't find useful) snapping too, and I haven't come across any clashes. Cheers - Jaimie -- When all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail. When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb. - Steve Haflich
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 7 Apr 2010 08:02 On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:22:56 +0100, Trooper <removethis(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:07:41 +0100, Trooper >> <removethis(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >> >>> Peter Ceresole wrote: >>>> Trooper <removethis(a)trooperlooper.co.uk.invalid> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> I'm just amazed that you got the Logitech software to work properly! >>>>>> >>>>> It's not the best in the world, is it! >>>>> I especially like the feature that randomly slows the scroll wheel down >>>>> to an absolute crawl, until you hibernate the machine and bring it back >>>>> again. ;) >>>> I've been using it for many years now with tailed mice, on laptops and >>>> desktops, PPC and Intel. Never the slightest trouble. Always works. No >>>> slowdowns. >>>> >>>> Could I suggest that your setup might be broken? >>> You could suggest that, but I think it is a problem with the wireless >>> mice and the logitech software, which is probably why you haven't seen it :) >> >> Never happened to me either, with MX700, MX1000 and MX Revolution >> wireless mices. The Logitech Control Centre has been surprisingly well >> behaved if a bit feeble in its options. > >Oh yes, it's a known problem, but not known to everyone and as doesn't >happen to everyone, it's only known if you know it, you know? :) Aye! That's the way of flaky software. Cheers - Jaimie -- "If you think C++ is not overly complicated, just what is a protected abstract virtual base pure virtual private destructor, and when was the last time you needed one?" - Tom Cargil, C++ Journal
From: Duncan Kennedy on 7 Apr 2010 13:17 Andy Hewitt <thewildrover(a)me.com> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > I've been using Logitech three button scroll mice on two machines, for > > many years. They have tails (Ugh! NASTY wireless! NASTY batteries!) and > > they're lovely, with geat Logitech software that lets me assign a double > > click to the right button (ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE, DAMN YOU! I QUITE > > FANCIED A MAGIC MOUSE...) But the rollers do get clogged from time to > > time and although cleaning them is easy enough, it's still a slight > > chore. However laser mice were so bloody big, they were wireless so they > > needed batteries, in other words they were pigs. Expensive pigs. > > > > And so I went to Amazon and now I'm getting a couple of Logitech Optical > > Wheel Mice, SBF-96. Just like my scroll mice, but a bit better. With > > tails. And dead cheap. > > > > Isn't it great still to be excited by something so simple, but so nice? > I've never had to install Logitech software for mice - but I admit I've never tried one on the Macs and have never used the extra facilities. On the other hand I have a selection of tiny wired optical mice and one lives in the bag with the MBP. I'm beginning to like the MBPs glass pad but for much of my use on trains I like to use a mouse - in fact I use it on the leg of my jeans as the tables are too shiny! (Not *too many funny looks!) -- duncank
From: T i m on 7 Apr 2010 17:36 On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:47:38 +0100, Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: >> I couldn't have another roller mouse though, well, I would if it was >> that or the std Apple mouse that won't actually work on a mouse mat! > >I cleaned the wife's Mighty Mouse yesterday. 35 mins from starting to >apply the Stanley knife to putting it on its back so the superglue could >set. Stanley knife and Superglue aren't thing's I want to reach for when cleaning a mouse! > >That's about 4 I've done now. Nice. Want to do mine (if I ever find it again)? > And having the pea to scroll in all >directions with makes the occasional necessary cleaning well worth it. I can't say I found it that useful. What's more it's pretty rare out there so when you find yourself on a 'std' mouse you have to unlearn that action. Like when I used to try to right click on the Apple mouse when it wasn't enabled (was there a time when there was no right click on Apple mice)? > I >gave her the old Logitech wheel mouse while hers was in bits, she hated >it and was well pleased when the MM came back. I guess you get used to it. Where would you actually use it though? Cheers, T i m
From: Graeme on 8 Apr 2010 03:27
In message <lcupr55u0avjgk4h5eu32gm0e9j8dmuare(a)4ax.com> T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: [snip] > > I can't say I found it that useful. What's more it's pretty rare out > there so when you find yourself on a 'std' mouse you have to unlearn > that action. Like when I used to try to right click on the Apple mouse > when it wasn't enabled (was there a time when there was no right click > on Apple mice)? > Yes, just had to replace the one on my G4 so that I could right click. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/> |