Keyboards and Keyboard/Mice Combo Sets

[Gertlex]

The above two solutions have not worked for me (first just doesn't work, second refers to files I don't have).

But what I found to work is to (backup and) modify the file default.xml in .../Program Files/Logitech/SetPointP/

Look for the text "HELP_WORD_BACK" and delete the HandlerSet block that it's in.  Excel, Lotus, Outlook and Powerpoint blocks are also in the same area.  Save and restart Setpoint and the default settings won't reset

[Gertlex]

Ugh, false positive there. It still resets when I restart my computer (which is way too often...).

[prototype20]

Hey all, so I think I figured it out.

The way logitech set up their software is you have all programs and then programs that are exempted 

So if you are changing your back/forward buttons for example,

you'll first select your mouse

then select the buttons your are changing,

then the "1a" option shows up and you select "all other programs" and you make your settings,

but this is where the trick is. After you choose what you want it to do for "all other programs" you have to 

expand the "1a" menu list and select excel for example, you'll notice that the function will change from what you

just assigned to "Back [excel]" (for example) now you just assign what you want it to do for excel and it will work fine

So basically the "all other programs" option doesn't assign it to all programs, so you have to additionally assign it to 

the office apps by selecting them and doing the exact same assignment.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense, feel to ask, ill try to explain it better.

[securetype]

Exactly the same issue here.  It's been two years and Logitech has never addressed this issue, even with the current version of SetPoint Control Center 6.32.7, driver 5.33.14.  Every time I restart the computer or exit & restart SetPoint, the four MS Office applications reappear in "application specific button settings", thereby overriding my global settings.

Try X-Mouse Button Control at

http://www.highrez.co.uk/downloads/XMouseButtonControl.htm

[securetype]

>>>Go down an other couple of directory levels (they are just letters and numbers on my install) untill you find a file called profilemap.xml

the lettered & numbered subdirectories & the file "profilemap.xml" don't exist on my computer (Win7 prof 64 bit), just an empty folder at C:\Users\David\AppData\Local\Logishrd\SetPoint II\Devices\PointingDevice

[securetype]

>>>"this is where the trick is. After you choose what you want it to do for "all other programs" you have to expand the "1a" menu list and select excel for example, you'll notice that the function will change from what you just assigned to "Back [excel]" (for example) now you just assign what you want it to do for excel and it will work fine So basically the "all other programs" option doesn't assign it to all programs, so you have to additionally assign it to the office apps by selecting them and doing the exact same assignment."

Agreed, you have to go over each stubbornly reappearing application (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc) and EXPLICITLY REDEFINE EACH extra button.  In my situation, for most applications:

Button 4 = Ctrl+S (saves file)

Button 5 = Alt+Tab (toggles focus from currently active window to previously active window)

Some applications vary slightly from this setup, for example:

SyncBack SE (backup program)

Button 4 = Ctrl+L (opens the most recent backup log)

Button 5 = Alt+Tab (toggles focus from currently active window to previously active window)

Closing and reopening SetPoint these settings stick.  For added durability, C:\Users\[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Logitech\SetPoint\user.xml can be made read-only.  Seems to work so far.

[Csimbi]

Following malin's comment, here's how I fixed the forward/back thumb buttons (buttons 4 and 5) to some extent on my Anywhere MX:

1. Configure mouse (and if you have a Logitech keyboard, that, too) the way you like it.

2. Go to the Advanced tab and enable application-specific button settings. Click ok and then click apply. This ensures that the settings are created.

3. Go back to the Advanced tab and disable application-specific button settings. Click ok and then click apply. This ensures that the settings exist, but are disabled.

4. Right-click on the tray icon and click exit.

5. Using your favorite file manager, go to %appdata%\Logitech\SetPoint and locate user.xml.

6. Using your favorite ext/xml editor, open user.xml for editing.

7. Search for the word AppOverride. You will find quite a few entries like this:

                     <AppOverride App="yadayada.exe" HandlerSet="yadayada">
                        <Handler class="AppOverrides">
                           <Param ActionName="yadayada" ExeName="yadayada.exe"/>
                        </Handler>
                     </AppOverride>

8. Remove all of these from buttons 4 and 5; sections under Button Number="4" and Button Number="5" that is.

9. Make sure you removed each and every one of these from beginning (<AppOverride) to end (</AppOverride>) and you did not make any mistakes with the brackets.

10. Save and start Mouse and Keyboard settings. Now go to word and observe that the forward and back buttons finally started working.

11. Using your favorite file manager, make user.xml read-only. Making it read-only will not allow you configure your Logitech mouses and keyboards, so remember to revert this if you want to make changes. You might not need to do this step. Do this only it case it stops working after a reboot.

I am using XP SP3 and Office 2010, the above worked for me - though careful observation reveals that is nothing more than reverting to the default values: the back and forward thumb buttons will default to page up and page down instead of navigating forward and backward.

This proves that the Logitech software's default settings are loaded even when they're not present in the XML file. Since the default settings are loaded, they overring the settings in the XML file, which should be a simple browser forward/back command according to this:

                  <TriggerState Name="ButtonDownUp" HandlerSet="BrowserForward">
                     <Handler Class="BrowserCommands">
                        <Param ActionName="FORWARD" ShowUIDlg="0" URL=""/>
                     </Handler>
                  </TriggerState>

Who'd in their sane mind send page-up/page-down instead of Forward and Back navigation events when it is not configured to do so???

Anyway, when you configure the app overrides correctly, it seems that the driver either does not dispatch the appropriate navigations events (does not dispatch anything, dispatches the wrong event, etc):

                     <AppOverride App="winword.exe" HandlerSet="BrowserForward">
                        <Handler Class="BrowserCommands">
                           <Param ActionName="FORWARD" ShowUIDlg="0" URL=""/>
                        </Handler>
                     </AppOverride>

Logitech should take a look into it - it does not look like a single, isolated bug, it seems to be a combination of many.

In the meantime, as a work-around to the thumb button Forward/Back problem, set application-specific keystroke assignments to the thumb buttons for Word (and other Office apps if you like). ALT+Left and ALT+Right will give you navigation forth and back.