orteil42:

really quick rant about dumb peripherals, nothing interesting just need to get this off my chest before i lose my mind

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Counterpoint: Anywhere MX2 is my favourite mouse. Infinite scroll is such a crucial part of how I now use my computer, and the ability to turn it on and off by pushing it in is a useful feature if you need to do more precise scrolling.

The middle click button is now below the scroll wheel, because they had to change the “push wheel” function for the infinite scroll toggle. It doesn’t take too much time to adjust to, though I suppose that depends on your usage habits. For some weird reason it’s set to “switch apps” by default, but that can be fixed in the Logitech Options program.

I find horizontal scrolling extremely useful, and the buttons on the side of the mouse work fine for back and forward functions. Tilt left/right can be remapped to back/forward if that’s desired though. In fact the middle button, tilt, and both side buttons can be remapped to a whole ton of functions, including a custom keystroke.

If you actually want to remap the lower-level registration of the button hardware as “button 4 and 5″ you’re probably out of luck though, 4 and 5 are the ones on the left side, and I’m not sure what scroll tilt registers as.