{"id":275,"date":"2005-04-02T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-02T23:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Apple\/OSX\/osxmousequestion.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"osxmousequestion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2005\/04\/02\/osxmousequestion\/","title":{"rendered":"OS X and Multi-button Mice &#8211; A Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As stated recently, I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Hardware\/micecapades.html\">looking for a 5 button bluetooth mouse to use with my iMac<\/a>.  One of the contenders has been the Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/hardware\/mouseandkeyboard\/productdetails.aspx?pid=032\">Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth<\/a>, but I&#8217;ve resisted buying it because I&#8217;m not sure how I like the positioning of buttons 4 and 5, and due to the asymetrical shape.  Also, I didn&#8217;t really want to pay for the bluetooth adapter included with every MS Bluetooth mouse, since my iMac has Bluetooth built in.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor offered me his MS bluetooth keyboard and mouse kit, which he wasn&#8217;t using, to try out.  I left the keyboard and bluetooth adapter in the bag, but hooked up the mouse.  After installing the latest bluetooth firmware update and bluetooth software update from Apple, the mouse seems to be working reasonably well.  However, OS X is not a support OS for Microsoft&#8217;s Bluetooth offereings, and the Intellipoint 5.1 for OS X software I&#8217;ve been using won&#8217;t recognize the mouse.  This leaves me with no way to map buttons 3, 4, and 5 to any type of functionality.<\/p>\n<p>The OS can recognize these buttons, however.  I can map them to Expose functions in the Expose preference panel.  However, I can&#8217;t map them to keystrokes (as the Intellimouse software did), and other applications (most notably Firefox) do not recognize the native button clicks or allow a way to map them.  I&#8217;d like to map button four to Firefox&#8217;s Back button (aka Cmd+Left Arrow) and Button 3 (wheel-click) to the Firefox cmd Open Link in New Tab (Cmd+Mouse Click).  <\/p>\n<p>My primary need is for Firefox; I&#8217;ve looked for Extentions that would enable this functionality, but all I&#8217;ve found are extentions to enable mouse gestures, a feature I&#8217;m not fond of.  I also stumbled across something call USB Overdrive, and OS X app to enable extra buttons on a USB mouse.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s designed of OS X 10.1, hasn&#8217;t been updated in over three years, and states that Bluetooth support would appear &#8220;in the next version&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So, does anyone know how to generically map buttons 3,4, 5 in OS X, or a way to make Firefox recognize these buttons?  Until I can configure this mouse the way I want it, It&#8217;s not going to be of much use.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As stated recently, I&#8217;ve been looking for a 5 button bluetooth mouse to use with my iMac. One of the contenders has been the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer for Bluetooth, but I&#8217;ve resisted buying it because I&#8217;m not sure how I like the positioning of buttons 4 and 5, and due to the asymetrical shape. Also, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}