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Logitech unifying software mx ego4/28/2023 ![]() Hands-On: Kensington Expert Mouse Wireless Trackball What a nice early Christmas present the MX Ergo has turned out to be! Related reviews My M570 trackball, which has served me well for the past five years or so, has been relegated to the Trackballs I Have Known and Loved box. ![]() I have it paired to the Unifying receiver on my Acer all-in-one desktop system, and to Bluetooth on one of my Raspberry Pi 3 systems. ![]() So that's about it for this lovely new trackball. I think I will continue to live and work very happily without it. The one thing I can say, though, is that this capability probably opens up a whole new world of security headaches for corporate IT departments. I have no idea how this works, other than it requires installation of the Logitech Options software, which is only available for Windows and Mac. The only thing that I can see on the Logitech webpage which doesn't work on Linux is the FLOW technology, which apparently lets you copy and paste text and files between two computers. If I've got them all identified correctly, that makes a total of 9 buttons on the MX Ergo trackball! In Linux terminology, the mouse button events produced by each button are: ButtonĪll of these buttons do the right thing (ie what you would expect) on all of the Linux distributions I have tried it on so far. If you're counting, that is five different button events which can be produced just by the scroll wheel!įinally the Forward and Back buttons, located at the edge of the top of the trackball, produce two more mouse button events. Rolling the scroll wheel up and down produces two mouse button events, and tilting the scroll wheel to either side produces two more mouse button events. One small irritant here, though, because it is all too easy to move the wheel, thus causing some kind of unintended scroll movement, when you are actually trying to click the wheel. It obviously has the usual left and right mouse buttons, and only slightly less obvious is the middle button, which is activated by clicking the scroll wheel. Switching between paired systems is then done with a single press on the Easy Switch button, and the number LEDs show which host connection is active. Then start pairing mode on your computer, either via the Solaar utility or the Bluetooth manager. Then you put the trackball into pairing mode (it doesn't matter at this point if you are going to use Bluetooth or Unifying), by pressing and holding the Easy Switch button for a few seconds, until the status led starts to blink rapidly. First, you select the host channel you want to use on the trackball (1 or 2), by pressing the Easy Switch button. Pairing is then basically the same for either Bluetooth or Unifying. ![]() Fortunately, this package is now included in the repositories of most Linux distributions, so you can install it quite easily via whatever software manager or package manager your distribution includes. If you want to use the MX Ergo on a Linux system (as I obviously do), you will need to install the Solaar package so that you can manage the Unifying receiver. Pairing and switching between systems is controlled by the Easy Switch button and indicator LEDs, located right on top of the trackball.
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