Logitech MX1000

Posted by muesli in Tech & Net
Sunday, February 27. 2005

I got myself a new mouse today. I always kinda bought the cheapest ones, but today I had enough of those cheap crappy devices and bought the Logitech MX1000. It's a nice - even though really pricy - package, containing the mouse itself (surprise here), a charging-station and a PS/2 adapter.

The mouse is wireless! Finally! If I remember correctly I never really owned a wireless mouse, and now I experience what it feels like for the first time and wonder how I could have worked with a wired model. The one thing that always kept me from buying a wireless one were the batteries. I knew that I wouldn't have replacement batteries, once the first set emptied out. And working on a PC without a mouse? No-ho. Now, there is this charging station and this problem pretty mouch disappeared. Now the only thing left to do: configure all these extra buttons (12 mouse buttons is insane, right?) with cool KDE functions and shortcuts.

Happy hacking,
muesli

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12 buttons?!? my mx700 only has 8 buttons, good luck configuring em in kde though, logitech seems to make these things very non standard, last time i looked i couldn't get linux to recognise one of my buttons.

#1 Underlord (Homepage) on 2005-03-02 02:21 (Reply)

I'd love to hear your experience configuring this beast with KDE

#2 Xtian on 2005-03-02 16:27 (Reply)

you need to use "evdev" as x11 protocol. (x.org!) for that the kernel needs to have input events enabled.

keeping that in mind, you can use all of your buttons. (xbindkeys!)

regards,
muesli

#3 muesli (Homepage) on 2005-03-04 08:24 (Reply)

I want one, just without 12 buttons. I don't like the extra buttons usually.

#4 mxcl on 2005-03-05 19:53 (Reply)

the cool thing about the mouse, even if you decide you won't use these extra buttons: they are not in your way. it's still the coolest mouse around

still: once you get used them, they really speed up desktop navigation.

...muesli

#5 muesli (Homepage) on 2005-03-09 01:47 (Reply)

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