I recently bought a Logitech M560 mouse.
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It works fine on my Mac, but I wonder if there's a software/prefpane (free or paid) I can use to map the additional buttons I have on my mouse (i.e. to open dashboard, select line, etc..)
Hi – I use a Trust 5 button mouse, mainly for AutoCAD, but whilst it works perfectly well in older versions of Windows, in the more recent versions, I can’t get the 4th and 5th buttons to work – I think the Windows mouse drive (which doesn’t have the extra buttons) overrides my Trust driver. It’s possible that your mouse has some extra buttons but doesn’t come with its own driver software (the author is using a Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000, which amazingly is not supported by the Microsoft IntelliPoint software!).
Logitech at the moment offers no support for Mac for this model (I was aware of this when I bought the mouse)
Without any configuration the bottom side button works as 'Add bookmark' in Chrome, so I think I can do something for this..
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Thanks to the previous answers, I have successfully used BetterTouchTool to map three different buttons:
Two buttons remain unmappable (Forward and Middle click), but it is better than nothing. Hope that it will fit to your needs.
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If you're interested in using the side buttons for navigation, I made an open-source menu bar utility called SensibleSideButtons that solves this problem. Instead of binding the side buttons to keyboard shortcuts like most of the other programs mentioned here, mine instead binds them to virtual left and right swipe gestures. This approach offers several benefits: almost universal adoption across the OS (including Xcode), avoidance of destructive behavior, no menu bar blink or annoying noises, commands only sent to the specific window under your cursor.
(This assumes that your side buttons emit standard M4 and M5 events.)
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Acdsee like program for mac. I've used Steermouse in the past with excellent results.
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BetterTouchTool
BetterTouchTool will allow you to map mouse buttons to keyboard shortcuts or predefined actions. Simply click in the area with the button that you want to map, select a modifier key if you wish, then choose a keyboard shortcut or predefined action to map.
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I have used USB Overdrive
The USB Overdrive is a device driver for Mac OS X that handles any USB mouse / trackball / joystick / gamepad / media keyboard and any Bluetooth mouse from any manufacturer and lets you configure them either globally or on a per-application, per-device basis. Note that the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad are not handled by the USB Overdrive to let Mac OS X implement its full multitouch support.
Worked really well .
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According to an answer on a similar question, it's possible to use a program called Karabiner to detect the Logitec Windows-specific keyboard events sent by the M560, and translate them to regular keyboard or mouse button events that tools such as BetterTouchTool can pick up on.
Please see the original answer on the duplicate question for full details, including a Karabiner configuration file for the M560.
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Theodore MurdockTheodore Murdock
Hammerspoon is another free open source versatile tool that may be used to map the keys on the mouse to different functions - with many other options/plugins (known as 'Spoons') available. You'll need to install the tool and supply it with some appropriate config - see examples here for mouse remapping. Here is an example config that remaps the Logitech Marble mouse right mini-button(4) to as a Middle click(2):
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