Dev Benegal, in his comment to my post on “Apple Mighty Mouse’s Fourth Button?,” reminded me about this handy little utility. If you’ve been wondering what to do with all those buttons on your new Apple Mighty Mouse, consider adding DejaMenu to one of them.
DejaMenu displays the application menu of the current program as a contextual menu. That’s particularly handy for people with multiple monitors, or for people with large monitors (like me; I’ve got a gorgeous 30-inch Cinema Display). The Menu Bar appears only on one monitor and a large monitor can require a long mouse trip to the Menu Bar, but with DejaMenu you can bring up application menus wherever you can click your mouse. If you don’t have a mult-button mouse or a mouse button to spare, you can launch DejaMenu with a custom defined key combination. Either way, DejaMenu displays the application menu under your cursor.
I had DejaMenu installed on my computer before I upgraded to Tiger, but I rarely used it. I just didn’t get into the habit of using the key combination. But now I have it assigned to the Scroll Bar button on my Mighty Mouse. It just makes sense there: left click, right click for a contextual menu, middle click for the application menu (I’ve got Dashboard assigned to the side buttons). Old habits die hard, but DejaMenu could be a real timesaver.
Bottom Line: DejaMenu puts your application menus at the tip of your cursor.
From: Karl Hsu
Price: Free
Platform: Macintosh
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April 21st, 2006 at 12:38 pm
How exactly do you assign your DejaMenu command to one of the Might Mouse buttons? I’ve tried to figure it out but all I seem to be able to assign with the Keyboard & Mouse system preference are applications (plus Dashboard & Expose). I’d appreciate someone posting and e-mailing me with instructions.
April 21st, 2006 at 12:47 pm
To assign DejaMenu to a Mighty Mouse button, open the Keyboard & Mouse preferences in System Preferences, select the popup menu for the mouse button you want to assign, and select Other… at the bottom of the list. Then, just select DejaMenu in the file browser and click Open.