Want to use your trackball to control your volume or web browser? No problem. You can program buttons to enter pre-defined snippets of text or assign buttons to pre-selected navigation functions. You can also program buttons to enter snippets of text, control media, control navigation and perform editing tasks. So a button can be programmed to perform one function in one program and something different in another. Hotkeys can be customized per application. You can also perform “Chording” (assigning a hotkey to the combination of two buttons pressed at once). If anyone's interested I will upload the changes/sources soon.You can assign hotkey shortcuts to each button. The cool thing now is that the scroll ring of the Expert Mouse is still kind of useful for when you only want to scroll a few lines at a time where activating the scroll mode is not necessary. Bottom right: activate/deactivate scroll mode.
So here's the configuration to which I arrived now: So at this point it just makes sense to put the middle button where it belongs - between left and right click (top left). It's actually the top right one anyway as I can comfortably hit it with my ring finger, which was previously not doing anything really. I love the last feature of having a dedicated button to activate and deactivate the scroll function right away but it comes with the downside of not having a middle button anymore.īut here's the cool part: Initially I thought that the bottom right key is the ideal key for the right click. holding the button while moving the ball will allow you to scroll until the button is released and clicking the button by itself will toggle scroll mode on/off. Now when deactivating the setting above in the menu, a click on the button simply activates the scroll mode while another click deactivates it again - no need to click and move the ball simultaneously to hit the threshold and activate scrolling. After using it extensively I realized it is ergonomically speaking still not ideal so I decided to hack into it some more. If the "emulate middle button when not scrolling" is activated, it will do just that (like in the original version), but it needs at least a bit of ball movement (to hit a certain threshold) while clicking the button to activate the scroll mode else it will interpret it as a middle click.
Since there was no solution out there I decided to fork the TrackballScroll tool from Seelge above and modify it to accommodate those needs. I would be able to comfortably scroll slowly and continuously while reading long documents, ebooks or websites. Long story short, I decided that a click to activate the scrolling and another click to deactivate it again seemed like a better solution. And boy does it get tiresome when having to hold that one for prolonged times. The bottom key allows better up/down operation of the ball but it can only be operated properly by the weaker pinky. The top one can be operated with the stronger ring finger but puts you in an awkward position when trying to fling the ball upwards.
The scrolling is much smoother and you can scroll both vertically as well as horizontally which is awesome but I ran into an annoying issue: Holding one of the buttons while scrolling through long documents or websites is surprisingly tiresome, since at least with the Expert Mouse the only viable options to bind the scrolling to are the right two buttons. Most notably this is probably the best solution to date: I knew there are tools to turn the ball of a trackball into a scroll wheel itself when holding a key. some Logitech Mice when you have to scroll through long documents.
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I do like the the scroll ring on the Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless but it's still a far cry from the awesome free spinning mouse wheels on e.g.
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