[DM-MUG] USB and Logitech TrackMan

[Ray Bowler]

>I am surprised no one has a kensington trackball.

Actually you can purchase a new Kensington Trackball with ADB and USB 
ports. A bit expensive but I am tempted--it would fit my present 
needs and if my wife wins the argument and I buy a new machine it 
would work with that machine. There is an issue from my point of view 
with the design of the Logitech Mouse. My problem, not theirs.I am 
having some unsteadiness with my middle finger and this causes 
problems. I actually like controlling the movement with my thumb and 
having my fingers right over the buttons all the time. It fits very 
nicely.

>
>years ago and gave it away. What happens to the settings that they reset?
>Are the preferences actually being saved? Is the preferences file changed?

Intriguing question. It is not saving the button settings but the 
settings for mouse are being saved as is a setting to set the cursor 
at the default button in a dialogue. This argues that the button 
preferences  are not being saved correctly. Thanks for the idea.

>If rebooting creates a new blank prefs, you could probably backup a working
>pref and create an applescript that puts a working copy back and put the
>script in the startup items folder.


Interesting. The preferences are in a Logitech folder in system 
preferences. If I did this I would know whether the button 
preferences are actually being  saved at all.

>  I know it sounds rube goldberg, but it
>could work. I am surprised that logitech couldn't help you.

Reinstalling with extensions off was their idea. So far no freezes. 
I'll post amy news about this.


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Ray

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