SteerMouse is an advanced driver for USB and Bluetooth mice. It also supports Apple Mighty Mouse very well.
SteerMouse can assign various functions to buttons that Apple's software does not allow, including double-clicks, modifier clicks, application switching, assignment of shortcut keys, "snap to" cursor movement, which moves the cursor to target (such as an OK button), and more.
SteerMouse lets you control the cursor's Sensitivity on top of the Tracking Speed. (Apple's software only allows adjustment for the Tracking Speed.) By adjusting both configurations, you
What's New
Version 4.1.4f1:
Additions:
Now supports OS X 10.8 Moutain Lion.
You can now customize all buttons on the Logitech G500.
You can restore the + and - buttons on the Logitech G500 and G700 to their original functionality.
Now possible to switch the primary button in System Preferences.
Bug Fixes:
Problem solved where configurations for some applications would not work.
Problem solved where an error would occur with fast user switching.
Problem solved where the Buttons window would not respond to a mouse click.
Version 4.1.4f1:
Additions:
Now supports OS X 10.8 Moutain Lion.
You can now customize all buttons on the Logitech G500.
You can restore the + and - buttons on the Logitech G500 and G700 to their original functionality.
Now possible to switch the primary button in System Preferences.
SteerMouse supports USB and Bluetooth mice. It will even work with mice designed for Windows PCs. You can customize your mouse freely even if there is no Macintosh's driver.
SteerMouse is the ONLY 3rd-party driver that works flawlessly across ALL of my apps, and with any mouse that I've bought. I have used all types of Logitech mice in the past, including the current one I'm using, the G700 Gaming Mouse, for Diablo 3. Mapping every single button to D3 is amazing!
Trusty ol' eMacster running 10.4.11 suddenly decided to tour Upper Bitblivion last month and has now been replaced by a shiny new (July 2011) Mac mini with 10.7.3 rolling. *w00t!*
One major issue: for the first time in 18 years, no right-button-assigned double-clickiness here. Only that feature – along with the old-fashioned, fat Mouse-in-a-Box form factor – fits my hand perfectly and prevents wrist aches. I've tried other meeces over the years; no joy. But now, no MouseWorks for Lion?! Not even a response to my customer-service email? Boo, Kensington! Enter SteerMouse [insert MacHead :::happy-dance::: here...]: comfort re-established.
Do I wish it didn't cost a week's food budget? Well, yeah. Was it worth it? Hell, yeah! (-:
Fantastic Software. Let's me configure my G700 for all needs and as a gimmick it let's me define some mouse actions like moving the pointer to the default button in a dialog window.
I've been using this for 5 years on various Macs and various mice. Updates have all been free and I don't recall having any problems with it. Works fine with Lion and it recognizes all the buttons and sliders on my current Logitech mouse. For me it's an essential Mac utility.
As compared to it's competition like ControllerMate SteerMouse is over priced and likes a number of tools that give it the flexibility a third parity controller should have.
I'm still patiently waiting and hoping for SteerMouse to be able one day to remap the two top left buttons (tracking speed change) on my Logitech G500.
SteerMouse is a great utility for empowering your mouse, but one little thing has always bothered me about it. It's just awfully peculiar that the System Preferences pane for SteerMouse does nothing except launch another application for setting the configurations. Why not make a normal preference pane that does it all right there? USB Overdrive does it the "normal" way now (it used to be exactly like SteerMouse) so there doesn't seem to be a sensible reason for SteerMouse to continue doing it the current way it does.
Try selecting Mission Control for any button on your Logitech device or any other mouse and behold the s's.
I also wonder why there hasn't been a revamp of the UI of the SteerMouse application. I've disabled the "PreferencePane" in System Preferences in Lion and just call the application within the Utilities folder.
I also had problems with new version. Really couldn't get anything to work right. Even at highest setting, the cursor was very slow. Also,
couldn't get autoclose to work. I simply uninstalled and reinstalled the previous version, reset my values, and everything is fine again.
I really didn't have any problems with the previous version. Sometimes, I guess it's best to leave well enough alone.
For those who still don't feel well about the tracking speed, Try 0.0375 of Tracking Speed and 100 or 80 of Sensitivity or something like this, you'll be fine!
I suggest emailing your problem to the folks at Plentycom. I did with mine, and I got a response back very quickly asking for more information so they could track down the problem.
I'm having a major issue with version 4.01. After upgrading, my mouse doesn't respond to left clicks about half of the time. This gets annoying really quick. I've emailed a bug report to the developer. SteerMouse is great, and I hope they're able to help me resolve this. I'm using a Logitech MX Revolution on Snow Leopard 10.6.1. Anyone else experience a similar issue?
Well it turns out this issue has nothing to do with SteerMouse. After extensive troubleshooting, I realized the problem occurred even when SteerMouse wasn't installed, and it happened with the trackpad as well as the mouse. Something is wreaking havoc with my system, and I can't figure out what it is. Too many strange things are happening these days. I think it's about time for a wipe and clean install, which I should have done with Snow Leopard the first time. I'm sorry to initially pin this problem on SteerMouse, but it did start immediately after I installed 4.0.1. Some coincidence.
The problem I had with 10.6.1 is the wake computer
When the computer was put to sleep, iMac 20" (2009) 2.66
with the power button, quickly push
is that the computer did not wake from sleep, by moving the mouse, or touching a key on the keyboard
I do not see this in the problem fixed with the new version 4.0.1
So I'll skip this update until it is confirmed this issue is resolved
Warning Logitech users!
You may find yoursefl unable to use Logitech's driver once this is installed, even if you disable SteerMouse. To recover the use of Logitech Control Center (which I prefer with the Marble Mouse trackball), you must uninstall SteerMouse from its own Help Menu.
Good software and I bought it because it enabled me to use a cordless Logitech mouse that does not otherwise have drivers on the Mac.
There are a couple things that annoy me about how buttons work Exposé, however. Maybe a workaround can be offered for these situations if the developer does not soon fix them:
I have my scroll wheel button set to Exposé all windows which it does, however only after I let up on the click. This makes using Exposé require two clicks to use rather than the one I used with a previous mouse: click once and hold while moving the mouse over the desired window and releasing to go to that window.
Also I have another button set to Exposé just my current application's windows, (in Steermouse it's set to replicate a Function key since I can't find another way to control Exposé thru Steermouse) but again, I can't hold down the mouse while I move it over the windows. If I do that, it just goes in and out, in and out of expose mode over and over.
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SteerMouse is an advanced driver for USB and Bluetooth mice. It also supports Apple Mighty Mouse very well.
SteerMouse can assign various functions to buttons that Apple's software does not allow, including double-clicks, modifier clicks, application switching, assignment of shortcut keys, "snap to" cursor movement, which moves the cursor to target (such as an OK button), and more.
SteerMouse lets you control the cursor's Sensitivity on top of the Tracking Speed. (Apple's software only allows adjustment for the Tracking Speed.) By adjusting both configurations, you can customize the ideal setting for the cursor to fit the movements of your hand.
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SteerMouse supports USB and Bluetooth mice. It will even work with mice designed for Windows PCs. You can customize your mouse freely even if there is no Macintosh's driver.
Hehe...I want an Engrish speaking mouse :)
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HALLELUJAH!
After one year of patience ;-) Thanks very much!
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One major issue: for the first time in 18 years, no right-button-assigned double-clickiness here. Only that feature – along with the old-fashioned, fat Mouse-in-a-Box form factor – fits my hand perfectly and prevents wrist aches. I've tried other meeces over the years; no joy. But now, no MouseWorks for Lion?! Not even a response to my customer-service email? Boo, Kensington! Enter SteerMouse [insert MacHead :::happy-dance::: here...]: comfort re-established.
Do I wish it didn't cost a week's food budget? Well, yeah. Was it worth it? Hell, yeah! (-:
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Drbroom reviewed on 25 Aug 2011
Just my $0.02
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http://plentycom.jp/en/steermouse/download.html
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According to SteerMouse there's 3 of them. :o)
Try selecting Mission Control for any button on your Logitech device or any other mouse and behold the s's.
I also wonder why there hasn't been a revamp of the UI of the SteerMouse application. I've disabled the "PreferencePane" in System Preferences in Lion and just call the application within the Utilities folder.
couldn't get autoclose to work. I simply uninstalled and reinstalled the previous version, reset my values, and everything is fine again.
I really didn't have any problems with the previous version. Sometimes, I guess it's best to leave well enough alone.
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When the computer was put to sleep, iMac 20" (2009) 2.66
with the power button, quickly push
is that the computer did not wake from sleep, by moving the mouse, or touching a key on the keyboard
I do not see this in the problem fixed with the new version 4.0.1
So I'll skip this update until it is confirmed this issue is resolved
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You may find yoursefl unable to use Logitech's driver once this is installed, even if you disable SteerMouse. To recover the use of Logitech Control Center (which I prefer with the Marble Mouse trackball), you must uninstall SteerMouse from its own Help Menu.
There are a couple things that annoy me about how buttons work Exposé, however. Maybe a workaround can be offered for these situations if the developer does not soon fix them:
I have my scroll wheel button set to Exposé all windows which it does, however only after I let up on the click. This makes using Exposé require two clicks to use rather than the one I used with a previous mouse: click once and hold while moving the mouse over the desired window and releasing to go to that window.
Also I have another button set to Exposé just my current application's windows, (in Steermouse it's set to replicate a Function key since I can't find another way to control Exposé thru Steermouse) but again, I can't hold down the mouse while I move it over the windows. If I do that, it just goes in and out, in and out of expose mode over and over.
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