5th Mouse Button and Expose and Spaces

I can confirm too, booting from cold and I get the issue with the button 5, which I assigned my Spaces.

Logging out and in RESOLVES it.

But that is a VERY annoying little problem. -_-

Bill

As said earlier by another member, try to simply log out and in. Confirmed to work by some of us.

Bill

Woot! Problem still seems to be up since August though...

Bill

Have you tried simply logging out and in?

Bill

Same problem here. USB Overdrive the best work around for now

Aaarg! No bugfix for the 5TH mouse button bug in 10.6.2 :-((

File corruption when Loggin Out. Solution: make sure you unplug your mouse BEFORE logging out and wait till logged in before plugging mouse back into the usb. Sloppy programming.

Since Apple doesn't fix this bug in 10.6.2, I decided to write a tiny shell script to fix the problem. It's available here:

http://snipt.org/pXn

code:

#! /bin/sh
#You should chmod u+rwx fixExp.sh before using this script.


echo This Script will delete the file "com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist" and >logout your user. Do not forget to set up your Expose Preferences.

sleep 10


cd /users/username/Library/Preferences
#replace username with your username

rm com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist


osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to log out'

or download it

http://bit.ly/2l6zC7

Message was edited by: napcae1

Just upgraded today, 10.6.2, and I have this problem. Submitted a report to Apple.

Has any progress been made on this? I've only seen temporary solutions and installing the Logitech Control Center.

I have found the solution after months of looking in the Mac OS 10.6 (now 10.6.2)
1) Just go to "Preferences"
2) Then "Exposé & Spaces"
3) In the section "Exposé" you'll be able to assign your extra mouse buttons to "All Windows", "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop".
Also if you want to check your scroll button for "Dashboard", the option is here.

No scripts, problem solved within the 10.6 options. They just moved this options from the Mouse section, to here.

that isn't helpful at all..the preferences were always there?!

That's how I solved the problem described here, the same I had. My mouse had no functionality with the other three buttons since 10.6 'till I found these options.

I too have this problem on a brand new 27" iMac. Expose-desktop will not work with any mouse button on my logitech MX518. All other functionality can be assigned to any mouse button.

Copying spaces and expose to the /Applications directory didn't solve the problem.

Come on apple, fix expose!

Message was edited by: Darrin Filer

To Clarify some points on this issue:

1) This has nothing to do with the 5th mouse button. It just happens that many people use the 5th button to activate the "show desktop" action. The issue happens with ANY button assigned to "show desktop".

2) This is not specific to Logitech mice or people using the Logitech Control Center. For people using LCC, moving the Expose app out of the utilities folder and into the application folder may be a useful workaround, but again, this is only relevant for logitech users using the LCC.

3) Deleting the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist file may in some cases temporarily solve the problem until a reboot. However, I don't think this is really an issue with this preference file. I saved this file while the machine was in a working state, and also while it was not working and compared the plist files and they are identical.

4) Logging out, and logging back in either as a different user, or as the same user, sometimes solves the problem. For me this is inconsistent.

5) The problem appears even when I create a fresh user. However often logging in and out or switching users temporally solves the problem. However the problem is always there on a cold boot.

6) The only workarounds currently seem to be to use 3rd party software / mouse drivers which allow you to assign these fucntions, or to assign the mouse button to a keyboard keystroke, and assign THAT to the show desktop action.

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Apple, please address this ASAP! Thanks
-N