Why can't you configure Mighty Mouse to go "back" in web pages?

Hi, OlsonBW.

You wrote:

"that my Logitech MX700 can't do (scroll sideways"

I have an MX700. It can scroll horizontally: hold the Shift key while using the scroll wheel in a window where a horizontal scroll bar is displayed.

Note that some applications support this gesture differently. For example:

- In most apps, holding the Shift key and using scroll wheel scrolls the document in horizontally within the window, as if one used the horizontal scroll bar.

- In Adobe Acrobat, holding the Shift key while using the scroll wheel does nothing, even when a horizontal scroll bar is present. However, holding the Option key and using the scroll wheel results in the the document being zoomed in or out.

Good luck!

😉 Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Could the MX700 activate Dashboard by setting a button to perform the keystroke that activates Dashboard?

Hi, Wade.

You wrote:

"Could the MX700 activate Dashboard by setting a button to perform the keystroke that activates Dashboard?"

Not in version 160 of Logitech Control Center (LCC), which is the one I'm using.

Sidebar: Logitech has released an LCC version 162 update but I've yet to install it as it shows the latest version of Mac OS X it supports is 10.4.2. I usually let the LCC updates "burn in" a bit before installing them and there seem to be a number of complaints about 162. I may test it later when I have time.

LCC adds a preference pane to System Preferences for configuring the buttons, but it does not accept the Exposé or Dashboard F-keys when attempting to assign a keystroke to a button.

Assigning a keystroke to a button requires you to select the button you want to configure, indicate you want to assign a keystroke, press the key you want to assign, then select any modifier keys you want to add to such (Command, Option, etc.). Under version 160, the Exposé and Dashboard F-keys are not detected by: they simply invoke the associated Exposé or Dashboard functions, but the LCC perference pane configuation option doesn't pick up that you pressed the F-key.

For the switcher (Command-Tab) they have a specific choice for this in their configuration options, so one can assign that without pressing Tab and then selecting Command as the associated modifier key.

Good luck!

😉 Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

I see. I don't know which version I'm using, and I have all my buttons configured to other things, so I haven't tried to set it up to invoke Dashboard. And I'm on Windows now, so I can't try it myself.

Can you change which button invokes Dashboard, set the MX700 for the original button, and then change Dashboard back to that button?

You wrote:

"Can you change which button invokes Dashboard, set the MX700 for the original button, and then change Dashboard back to that button? "

I haven't tried that. Frankly, I'm not a big user of Dashboard.

One can change the Dashboard keystrokes to things like Right Control or Left Control, etc. See System Preferences > Dashboard & Expose, so it sounds feasible that one might find a key combination to invoke Dashboard that LCC would permit, but I suspect you'd have to leave that key combo set in Dashboard's preferences.

That preference pane also has some pop-up buttons one can assign — a second set to the right of to the one's where the F-key defaults appear — that show mouse keys, but I've not played with those and am not sure how they'd interact with the LCC.

Why don't you play around with these after you get home and post back. 😉

Good luck!

😉 Dr. Smoke
Author: Troubleshooting Mac® OS X

Why don't you play around with these after you get
home and post back. 😉

Perhaps I will... I've never messed around with it much myself. I only use Dashboard occasionally. I did update LCC fairly recently, but I don't know which version I have.