How many buttons does your mouse have?

[nageov3t]

Mice without the back/forward buttons on the side piss me off so much.

amen.

I actually bought my own mouse for my office workstation because not having back/forward buttons was so annoying.

the battery life on the logitech marathon is awe-inspiring.

 

[eLiu]

9, logitech g9x
left/right/middle click
mousewheel also can be pushed left/right (left/right scroll; i should reassign these to something more useful)
2 thumb buttons (forward/back)
2 sensitivity adjust (can be reassigned)

 

[Jeff7]

holy hell....why don't you just use a power glove?

2 buttons plus a scroll wheel, so 3.

That might be preferable. (I've never had a chance to use one though.)
I do a lot of CAD work, and it took a few weeks to convince them to incur the massive $50 expense of a G500 mouse. (For an idea of their typical mouse budget, a few of the computers there still use ball mice.) It has helped a bit with wrist and finger aches, but it's still far from ideal - mouse design is very much entrenched in making more of the standard shape. It's interesting too that gaming mice seem to have more focus on ergonomics, to allow for long gaming sessions, than business mice - presumably because no one is ever in a work environment where they're using a mouse for an extended period of time.

And couple the # of mouse buttons with the fact that I love using keyboard shortcuts. It's so much quicker to use Win+E, then Shift+Tab, then the arrow keys and letters in order to get to the folder and files I need, rather than clicking all over the place to get there.

Wait for them to perfect brain machine interfaces for mouse control. It's not very far off. They actually have a few products on the market but they aren't mature yet.

It's about damn time.

17

You might just need to sand the contacts a little to get the patina off.

Whoa.
That looks kind of slim and tiny though. Do your ring and pinky fingers just kind of hang off the edge and drag on the desk then? I've got that with the G500 unfortunately - my pinky finger kind of hangs off the end, and drags on the desk. The mouse that came with Microsoft's Desktop 6000 set was quite nice in that respect. All fingers have a place to rest. The problem that that sort of design will encounter of course is variations in hand size.

 

[dennilfloss]

My trackball has 5 buttons (left, right, scroll wheel, forward, back) but just the one ball. :sneaky: Nothing remapped or re-assigned. I like them as is.

http://www.logitech.com/en-us/mice-pointers/trackballs/devices/7365

 

[dighn]

mx510, 7 buttons. don't really use the other buttons beside the 2 main ones. forward/back are somewhat useful but mouse gestures is easier.

 

[HAL9000]

One a the moment, but normally two. I hate fancy mice. I rarely use my mouse so It isn't a concern for me.

 

[PrinceofWands]

3 that I allow to work. Use x-mouse button control to disable everything else. I want a mouse to have left, right, and middle/scroll. Nothing else.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Mice without the back/forward buttons on the side piss me off so much.

Mice WITH the back/forward buttons on the side piss me off so much. To each their own.

 

[0roo0roo]

 

[Anubis]

Mice without the back/forward buttons on the side piss me off so much.

lol i remapped the back button to "middle click" on my G7

actually i do it on every mouse that has a thumb side button

 

[0roo0roo]

9 but i count the tilt wheels tilt.

g9 acts like it has more since auto profile switching means you can change assignments per application. problem with many nice is even if they have a lot of buttons the custom assignments don't always have relevance between apps.

 

[Chaotic42]

Whoa.
That looks kind of slim and tiny though. Do your ring and pinky fingers just kind of hang off the edge and drag on the desk then? I've got that with the G500 unfortunately - my pinky finger kind of hangs off the end, and drags on the desk. The mouse that came with Microsoft's Desktop 6000 set was quite nice in that respect. All fingers have a place to rest. The problem that that sort of design will encounter of course is variations in hand size.

It's pretty small. That's the worst thing about it. I guess I've gotten used to it, but it was a real problem when I first bought it. It's very, very sensitive, so I don't have to move it much to get a large sweep on the screen. According to Wikipedia my hands are very slightly larger than normal. If they were much bigger I might have some problems.

 

[0roo0roo]

Mice WITH the back/forward buttons on the side piss me off so much. To each their own.

mouse gestures!

drag right-> drag left <-
so easy, no need to waste two buttons on that

 

[silverpig]

I have a magic mouse with my laptop that I love, so 1 I guess. It does right clicking, two finger clicking, gestures etc, so it doesn't act like a 1 button mouse.

With my desktop I just have an old MS optical with two buttons and click scroll wheel.

 

[KaOTiK]

17 - Razer Naga

 

[coldmeat]

I have 7, only use 3 regularly, and use 1 more for melee in games.

 

[HAL9000]

 

[Imp]

Logitech G5 so ~6.

Left, right, back, zoom in, zoom out, and mouse wheel. The wheel also slides left/right, but it's not working because I'm too lazy to install the drivers. Just using whatever Windows auto-installed.