[P1] Mouse drivers [slightly offtopic]

david davidwb at spymac.com
Thu Jan 8 06:15:39 PST 2004


On 1/8/04 7:47 AM, "Alexandre Leroux" <alexandre at leroux.net> wrote:

> 
> Dear list,
> 
> I just bought a microsoft scrool wheel optical mouse for my iBook G4.
> (cheaper solution by far. I -love- Apple, but not one-button mouses ;-)
> The mouse works perfectly without installing the MS-Intellipoint
> drivers. Would you suggest that I install these drivers to get more
> options (with the scrool wheel button for example)?
> 
> It works fine, so I'm not sure if I want to install anything
> additionnal (especially if it's coming from MS ;-) ! :-)
> 
One nice thing about the drivers is that you can assign unique button
presses to individual programs. For example, the right button is
automatically assigned to ctrl button down but in a browser it is more
convenient to have that assigned to command button down.

david



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