Leigh Oats
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Mac OS X

Q: OS10.5.8's lost ability to scroll horizontally using scroll wheel & shift key.

I wonder whether somebody can tell me how I can reinstate my OS10.5.8's ability to scroll horizontally using my mouse's scroll wheel and the shift key.

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 4, 2012 7:47 PM

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Leigh Oats

Q: OS10.5.8's lost ability to scroll horizontally using scroll wheel & shift key.

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  • by japamac,

    japamac japamac Mar 4, 2012 9:24 PM in response to Leigh Oats
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    Mar 4, 2012 9:24 PM in response to Leigh Oats

    Restart?

    Repair the hard drive using Disk Utility?

    Reset the PRAM?

    The function wasn't removed in 10.5.8.......

  • by Leigh Oats,

    Leigh Oats Leigh Oats Mar 4, 2012 11:00 PM in response to japamac
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    Mac OS X
    Mar 4, 2012 11:00 PM in response to japamac

    Dear Japamac,

     

    Thanks for this:

     

    > Repair the hard drive using Disk Utility?

     

    My Disk Utility says there are no errors.

     

    > Reset the PRAM?

     

    In a few days' time I'm due to get help at the Genius Bar of an Apple shop. I'll ask the technician about PRAM.

     

    > The function wasn't removed in 10.5.8.......

     

    I gather that your OS10.5.8 with PowerPC allows you to scroll horizontally with your mouse's scroll wheel and the shift key.

     

    As I implied in my words "reinstate my OS10.5.8's ability", I was able to use the horizontal-scroll-with-wheel-and-shift trick for a long time after I installed OS10.5.8 (that was in the middle of 2009).

     

    I'll see whether the Genius Bar can reinstate the trick for me.

     

    Thanks for your ideas, Japamac.


  • by Leigh Oats,

    Leigh Oats Leigh Oats Mar 5, 2012 12:53 AM in response to Leigh Oats
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Mar 5, 2012 12:53 AM in response to Leigh Oats

    Whoopee. I've worked around the glitch by using my smaller Logitech "M185" instead of my Logitech "Performance Mouse M950".

     

    Till now I've been using the M185 only with my Windows-based Acer Aspire, but an hour ago I thought I would experiment by trying it with my Mac PowerBook. Eureka.

     

    I find that the M185's horizontal-scroll-with-wheel-and-shift trick works with all but one of the applications that I've tried it with so far, such as Safari, Firefox, and Adobe InDesign. The M185 doesn't do the trick with my Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, but when I'm using MSWd I rarely set the window so narrow that the horizontal scroll bar appears.

    So now I have an M950 that's hanging around like the proverbial at a wedding. Oh, well. My Sargasso Sea of floating discarded computer devices tells the world that I'm accustomed to that sort of thing.


  • by Klaus1,

    Klaus1 Klaus1 Mar 5, 2012 2:03 AM in response to Leigh Oats
    Level 8 (48,918 points)
    Mar 5, 2012 2:03 AM in response to Leigh Oats

    Much more likely that your mouse needs a clean.

     

    How to really clean your Mighty Mouse (with caution!):

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3226?viewlocale=en_US

     

    and:

     

    http://web.mac.com/karelgil/iWeb/MacWebSite/MightyMEng.html

     

    http://www.linklink.co.uk/apple-computers/cleaning-inside-and-dismantling-the-ap ple-mighty-mouse/

  • by japamac,

    japamac japamac Mar 5, 2012 7:54 AM in response to Leigh Oats
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    Mar 5, 2012 7:54 AM in response to Leigh Oats

    I gather that your OS10.5.8 with PowerPC allows you to scroll horizontally with your mouse's scroll wheel and the shift key.

    Yep. Logitech MX Laser and Logicool M305 both work.

    Only checked Safari and Pages.....

     

    I've worked around the glitch by using my smaller Logitech "M185" instead of my Logitech "Performance Mouse M950".

    Hmm, maybe the mouse? Regular scroll works, huh?

    My Sargasso Sea of floating discarded computer devices tells the world that I'm accustomed to that sort of thing.

    You have one of those, too?

    I can't stack high enough anymore and horizontal space is nil...... eBay here I come!

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Mar 5, 2012 11:10 AM in response to Leigh Oats
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    Mar 5, 2012 11:10 AM in response to Leigh Oats

    My Sargasso Sea of floating discarded computer devices...

     

  • by Leigh Oats,

    Leigh Oats Leigh Oats Mar 5, 2012 3:37 PM in response to japamac
    Level 1 (4 points)
    Mac OS X
    Mar 5, 2012 3:37 PM in response to japamac

    Japamac wrote:

    Hmm, maybe the mouse? Regular scroll works, huh?

    The wheel of my Logitech "Performance Mouse M950" has never had any trouble scrolling vertically.

     

    Anyway, now that my PowerBook is again using a mouse that does the horizontal-scroll-with-wheel-and-shift trick the urgency of my original question has vanished. In a few days I'll ask a technician in an Apple shop's Genius Bar to try to diagnose the trouble I've been having with the M950. For all I know, the solution will be to reinstall the M950's Logitech software or to remove it permanently. I do know that the M185 works fine with my PowerBook without the need to install software, but my PowerBook's "Logitech Control Center" (which I've been using with the M950) seems not to recognise the M185.

     

    Thanks for your interest, everybody.