Center mouse button clicks on spaces does not activate the space

Ok so let me try and explain this. I have a Mighty Mouse and just installed Snow Leopard last night. I have the trackball on my Mighty Mouse set so if it is clicked it will activate Spaces. Under Leopard I could click the trackball and then hover my mouse over the Space I wanted to bring forward and click again with the trackball to bring that Space to the front. Now under Snow Leopard, if I click with the trackball to try and bring the Space I am hovering over forward, it just brings forward the Space that was the current Space before I clicked the trackball. If I click with the left mouse button then Snow Leopard DOES bring forward the correct space.

Obviously this is quite a minor issue. My hand is just used to clicking the trackball again and if needs to it will get used to clicking the left mouse button instead. I am just wondering if anyone else has noticed this or if anyone else has the same functionality in Snow Leopard or had the same functionality under Leopard with the Mighty Mouse (or any multi-button mouse for that matter).

Thanks.

iMac 2Ghz Intel Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 2, 2009 10:26 AM

23 replies

Oct 2, 2009 4:34 AM in response to Luke Karrys

Same problem but with an Evoluent mouse. I even downloaded USB overdrive to set the keys, which worked yesterday but not today...

das jan

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Nov 3, 2009 7:47 AM in response to Luke Karrys

I have the same problem. I just updated from my MacBook and OS X 10.4 and calling up spaces the 4th mouse button worked for the first four days, then all of the sudden it stopped working. I'm using a "Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000".

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Nov 21, 2009 4:31 PM in response to Luke Karrys

Same problem, I can't activate spaces with a mouse. I'm not using any special software for the mouse, and the buttons work fine if I assign them to Expose or Dashboard, but whatever button I assign to Spaces does nothing. Very annoying.

pila1

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Nov 21, 2009 6:35 PM in response to Luke Karrys

+Now under Snow Leopard, if I click with the trackball to try and bring the Space I am hovering over forward, it just brings forward the Space that was the current Space before I clicked the trackball. If I click with the left mouse button then Snow Leopard DOES bring forward the correct space.+

Isn't this how it is supposed to be? You open a program by middle clicking
and select something by left (or right) clicking not by middle clicking again because that wil bring you back where you started.

bgrinter

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Dec 7, 2009 1:53 AM in response to Luke Karrys

I'm having this problem too.

I'm running SL 10.6.2 and I have a Targus AMB08US Bluetooth Mouse.

Button 4 and 5 should be programmable space Space and Expose. What I've noticed is I need to press button 4/5 AND press button 1 to get the function to work. Expose works but Space activates but doesn't switch the to the selected app. Very annoying - the cheaper MS mouse I just ditched did work properly...

Is it my mouse or Snow Leopard?

jmpage2

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Dec 29, 2009 9:53 PM in response to Luke Karrys

I am having a similar problem. When I did my most recent updates to OS X 10.6.2 a few weeks ago my ability to launch Spaces with Mouse Button 5 on an MS mouse simply stopped working.

Weirdly it started working again for a while after I completely disabled the function on that mouse button and then turned it on again a few days later, but now it is back to being broken again.

I can assign other things to Mouse Button 5 and they work, but I cannot assign spaces to that mouse button or any other one and get it to launch. It always worked fine on previous Snow Leopard loads and of course always worked under Leopard.

Hopefully Apple fixes this in the next update, it's very irritating!

alexix

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Feb 12, 2010 5:30 PM in response to Dj Crawler

what application did you use to install the driver for the mouse?

Feb 16, 2010 5:54 AM in response to Luke Karrys

Seeing the mouse button mapped to spaces issue here as well. Using Snow 10.6.2. Suddenly button 5 will not launch spaces on my Microsoft Mouse. Oddly, button 4 will still launch Expose. What makes this so frustrating is that using this feature becomes a part of one's work flow. I'm not sure Apple gets that. When you break someone's work flow it becomes most irritating. Hopefully Apple will fix this soon. (Or sooner than some of the bugs in Leopard got fixed.) 😟

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