MS Wireless Laser Mouse 8000 and Mac OS X

<elventear.TakeThisOut@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am interested in using this mouse on a Macbook Pro, since it seems
> to offer nice functionality and has Bluetooth. Sadly, it's not clear
> if it's completely supported or not. I've seen on the net people
> saying that the mouse works nice and other people saying they had
> problems using the mouse under MacOSX.

Well, it's not officially "supported" but it works as a generic mouse.
MS doesn't provide Bluetooth drivers so you have to rely entirely on the
System for that.
I get left and right click, scroll wheel, but since I can't program the
other buttons, at this point they are pretty useless.
>
> Does anyone have any input on this? Does it work? Do all the 5 (Or so
> many) buttons work under MacOSX?

They all work, but button 3, 4 and 5 are treated as "button 3 4 and 5"
by the system with no function associated whatsoever.

I guess you could use some third aprty drivers, but I haven't yet given
this a try,


Corentin


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elventear.RemoveThis@gmail.com <elventear.RemoveThis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Can I program these buttons to work with Exposé, for instance?

I believe so. Button 3 4 and 5 are listed in my Exposé options.


Corentin



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