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Here is a Mac hint and suggestion that I thought that I'm sure some could also find useful and is a nice computing relief and time-saver for my ailing rheumatic arthritic mousing hand...
My older Logitech M705 USB wireless mouse has an almost invisible 8th button for thumb use and using its Mac Logitech Control Center I have been able to program that button to close any window.
That saves me mousing all over my 27-inch monitor in order to click on the small red close window button. What a relief and speed up and I should have thought of and made the change years ago.
Unfortunately, stupid Logitech still makes the same model mouse but have removed the eight thumb button I discovered after I had bought a spare. They should have also changed the model number when doing so to let the consumer know they had made the change. They also failed to mention that the new Logitech M705 USB wireless mouse now requires their Options.app software and will not work with the old Logitech Control Centre preference pane software to modify any all of the buttons.
But my old Logitech M705 mouse was giving me some tracking and scrolling problems so I tried switching over to the new M705 mouse which seemed to work much better, but I did not have the hidden 8th thumb button that I used to close any window.
But the new M705 mouse had a button under its scroll wheel that I was able to use to configure it to be able to use the keyboard shortcut ⌘(Command) + W to close any window. But their **** software wouldn't allow me to configure the button as my 2011 cannot run Mac OS 10.15 that their options software needs.
What to do??? The solution has been simple, download and use the shareware SteerMouse.app to figure the scroll wheel button.
Man what a relief and Time Saver it is rather than trying to click a small red button every time I need to close a window and in my computer use that seems to be almost all the time.
Anyway, I just thought I would mention that the option is available for those who could use it and I can guarantee you that my rheumatoid-arthritis hands certainly have appreciated the Improvement.
- Patrick
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My older Logitech M705 USB wireless mouse has an almost invisible 8th button for thumb use and using its Mac Logitech Control Center I have been able to program that button to close any window.
That saves me mousing all over my 27-inch monitor in order to click on the small red close window button. What a relief and speed up and I should have thought of and made the change years ago.
Unfortunately, stupid Logitech still makes the same model mouse but have removed the eight thumb button I discovered after I had bought a spare. They should have also changed the model number when doing so to let the consumer know they had made the change. They also failed to mention that the new Logitech M705 USB wireless mouse now requires their Options.app software and will not work with the old Logitech Control Centre preference pane software to modify any all of the buttons.
But my old Logitech M705 mouse was giving me some tracking and scrolling problems so I tried switching over to the new M705 mouse which seemed to work much better, but I did not have the hidden 8th thumb button that I used to close any window.
But the new M705 mouse had a button under its scroll wheel that I was able to use to configure it to be able to use the keyboard shortcut ⌘(Command) + W to close any window. But their **** software wouldn't allow me to configure the button as my 2011 cannot run Mac OS 10.15 that their options software needs.
What to do??? The solution has been simple, download and use the shareware SteerMouse.app to figure the scroll wheel button.
Man what a relief and Time Saver it is rather than trying to click a small red button every time I need to close a window and in my computer use that seems to be almost all the time.
Anyway, I just thought I would mention that the option is available for those who could use it and I can guarantee you that my rheumatoid-arthritis hands certainly have appreciated the Improvement.
- Patrick
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