I use a "gaming mouse" as my current favorite every-day computer mouse, when I'm not just using the trackpad.
If you're not familiar with it, it's a great computer mouse that has some extra buttons that can be arbitrarily assigned key combos, macros, and various functions.
Recently, I decided to tweak some settings for every day desktop/work use, and I've been quite pleased. Here's a couple things I did:
The middle scroll wheel on the G502 has a nice left and right tilt, or click action. It's not loose, and
doesn't cause accidental scrolling. So I configured those actions to switch desktops, or active full-screen apps in OSX/macOS.
Essentially, "left tilt" issues the CTRL+Left keyboard combo. Right-tilt issues CTRL+Right.
If a quick flick left or right isn't fast enough, this is the next goto. I assigned this button to activate Mission Control, the overview of all open windows. This gets a lot of use. I often have more
than one Chrome window open, for example, and ALT+Tab just doesn't get me where I want to go. In this case, I can quickly switch
windows without much thought.
I'm still trying this out, and not quite settled. I take screenshots pretty often, so currently this is set to the key combo CTRL+Shift+CMD+4, which is the OSX/macOS "Capture selection to clipboard".
When I press this button, my cursor is immediately turned into the selection crosshair, and I can select part of the screen to copy as an image to the clipboard.
They intentionally scroll up and down and are designed as fixed functions.Unable to assign up and down scrolling to adjust volume for G-shift second layer.The G502X with this feature is much more expensive.
