Is it possible to map mouse buttons 3 and 4 to control system volume on a Mac? KeyRemap4Macbook doesn't seem to have the functionality, nor SizzlingKeys. I have them both. Is there some way to manually bind these buttons to control system volume?
Map mouse mouse buttons 3 and 4 to control the system volume
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BetterTouchTool's "Normal Mouse" area allows you to assign functions to all kinds of mouse buttons and should work for you. It's free, too, so it won't hurt to try.
The author has issued a couple of recent updates to make it more compatible with Lion. There are still a couple of small things but I'm using it every day (previously with my mouse, now with my trackpad) and it's tremendously useful.
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I don't have a multi-button mouse to test with, but it should support mapping gestures to arbitrary buttons.
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What kind of mouse? Is there a proprietary driver for it? Kensington has a driver for their mice & trackballs that can assign their buttons. Before I had an effective Kensington driver, I used USB Overdrive. It works with a lot of multi-button HID devices.