I’m looking t getting an MX Master 3S to use with my M1 MBP and M1 Studio…and have a question about the software…tried the chat at their support site and the 40 character long Indian name was spectacularly unhelpful…so hopefully somebody can answer this.
I want to be able to set the main scroll wheel to provide left right arrow buttons rather than scrolling…and I want to do this on a per application basis as I only need it to work that way in Lightroom. Can the Logi software be setup this way or can it be set up that way in System Settings once the mouse is connected? I would hate to spend a hundred bucks on one and find out it can’t do what I want.
Do you mean you want to do left or right arrow when you:
Scroll the scroll wheel up/down?
Tilt the scroll wheel to the left or right?
Press down on the scroll wheel (aka middle click)?
I just checked Logi Options 10.22.52, as used by a Logitech M720 Triathlon. This is not the new “next-gen” Logi Options+.
In this Logi Options, you can create custom settings for specific applications, and you can assign any keystroke action to the scroll wheel tilt. So, you’d be able to assign the left and right arrows.
But I don’t think you can assign left/right to the scroll wheel’s click or rotational movement.
The MX Master 3S scroll wheel doesn’t tilt right and left.
In Logi Options+, you can’t set a movement of the scroll wheel to a keystroke action. However, you could, for example, set a click of the scroll wheel to right arrow, and a click of the shift wheel mode button (just adjacent to the wheel and closer to the user) to left arrow.
However, it would make more sense, at least to me, to assign the arrows to the forward and back thumb buttons, just below the thumb wheel.
Thanks, probably a better way to go. The goal is to be able to quickly scroll back and forth between a group of photos…us wildlife photographers typically shoot at 20 or more frames per second realizing we get a lot of almost identical shots. Scrolling back and forth lets one quickly pick out the 2 best wing positions or catching the tossed fish or whatever and mark them for processing. A typical shoot will bring home 1000 or more shots and getting it down to the dozen actual keepers quickly is easier that way. Then all the non keepers get trashed.
I’m not sure about the Logitech MX Master 3S mouse in particular, but I have helped my son with his Logitech G502 gaming mouse.
We were not impressed with Logitech’s supplied “G HUB” software, for many reasons. (I think the MX series may be supplied with a different app?) We eventually replaced the Logitech software with SteerMouse, which we quite like.
I think SteerMouse allows the configuration you are wanting here.
The G502 allows the scroll wheel to be tilted left and right (as Michael mentions above). The response to that can be configured here:
When you click the button to the right of eg “Roll Down”, many possible kinds of response can be configured. Causing a left / right arrow button press would be under “Keyboard Shortcut” here:
I haven’t tested your exact needs, because I don’t want to mess up my son’s configuration. Also I don’t have an MX Master 3S. So I’m not absolutely sure SteerMouse will do what you want. But I’m fairly confident. SteerMouse has a free 30 day trial.
The last time I uses a scroll wheel mouse (one that came with a Wacom tablet) its default up/down scroll was altered to left/right when pressing the Shift key.
Maybe you don’t want to always have to press shift, in which case hopefully the defaults can be swapped.
Sorry not aware specifically re Logitech software.
I’ve used SteerMouse for both Apple and Logitech mice, on multiple generations of OS X, and never had any problems. However, I haven’t tried the OP’s desired configuration. My primary change is to make the right button do a double-click, which is ergonomically very thrifty when doing a lot of editing of text, HTML, etc.
This is still the case, and it works with any mouse (as you pointed out), not just Logitech. I know that this can be configured to work via software, but I find it easier to just use the Shift key.
