Logitech Control Center

If you own a Logitech Keyboard or mouse, you probably know of the Logitech Control Center. And if you don’t, heres where you’ll find out about it.

Logitech’s software for Mac is called the “Logitech Control Center”. This is just what it sounds like, a control center where all your Logitech stuff can be customized. And if you don’t have it, features on your mouse and keyboard may not work properly, since the default driver included with Mac OS X only gives you features such as right click, scroll, and single click. That’s just about it in fact.

There’s a problem though. The Logitech Control Center isn’t optimized for Mac OS X at all. This is a warning if you are considering purchasing a mouse or keyboard from logitech–your mouse or keyboard may not work to your liking. 

In my case, I have a VX Revolution mouse from Logitech. It’s working great, but there’s a problem. The scrolling, while in the normal mode, not the hyper scrolling mode, is extremely slow. I have set the scrolling speed, in both the LCC and the Apple’s mouse/keyboard section, to highest speed, yet it crawls down the page. On my previous mouse, one flick could bring me down the entire length of Macworld. With this one, I need 8 or 10 flicks. This is a big problem.

There are some solutions to this of course. You could download Steermouse or USB Overdrive, both of which are software for these kind of mice. But you’ll have to pay 20 dollars for either of them–i haven’t found a free alternative yet. 

This is a big problem for people considering from buying from Logitech. I’ll have to live with it for now, but in the future, I think I’ll get a mighty mouse instead. Although the mighty mouse scrolls slow, you can set it to scroll fast in System Preferences, and I tried that at the apple store. Worked great. But in the LCC, it doesn’t help at all. Sometimes it works, most of the time it doesn’t.

If anyone knows a solution to this though, please comment and talk about it! Thanks.