{"id":72488,"date":"2026-04-01T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=72488"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T23:06:28","slug":"bluetooth-mouse-show-desktop-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/bluetooth-mouse-show-desktop-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Mouse Show Desktop Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/m720.gif\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Bluetooth Mouse Show Desktop Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/m720.gif\" title=\"Bluetooth Mouse Show Desktop Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bluetooth Mouse Show Desktop Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We find Information Technology work is full of &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>you stumble onto a feature, software or hardware &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>startling &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>initially unexpected and annoying &#8230; but &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>in another scenario &#8230; yes &#8230; very useful, and even time saving &#8230; but &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>\n<blockquote><p>\nHow did I just do that?<br \/>\nHave no idea what I just did.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Currently in terms of work on this macOS MacBook Air here we&#8217;re using two bluetooth components (as well as Bluetooth speakers for music) &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Logitech Keyboard K480<\/li>\n<li>Logitech Mouse M720 Triathlon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and with that mouse we&#8217;ve often stumbled onto, accidentally, as mentioned above, a position where the mouse action has gotten us back to a view of the desktop overlayed with icons representing the apps open (or being used).  Offputting at the time, but we&#8217;d love to know what we do to make this happen, deliberately, on occasions.  So, today, we&#8217;re going to research it.<\/p>\n<p>We typed into the web browser address bar <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Logitech Mouse M720 Triathlon desktop view gesture<\/a> and got back &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote cite='https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/logitech\/comments\/tv8gxx\/is_the_m720_good_for_touchpad_gestures\/'><p>\nTo trigger the desktop view (Task View\/Mission Control) on a Logitech M720 Triathlon, hold down the small button located on the rubber thumb grip while moving the mouse up, down, left, or right. This requires installing the Logi Options+ software to customize and enable these specific gesture actions.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230; leading us to <a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/support.logi.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/360023188834-Customize-M720-wireless-mouse-gestures-with-Logitech-Options' rel=\"noopener\">Customize M720 wireless mouse gestures with Logitech Options<\/a> as a good resource here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/support.logi.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/360024361233--Software' rel=\"noopener\">Software<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href='https:\/\/support.logi.com\/hc\/en-gb\/articles\/4418699283607-Logi-Options' rel=\"noopener\">Logi Options+ &#8230; Download (software)<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and reading through this &#8230; Eureka!<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Mac\/gesture_button.jpg'><\/img><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this tiny button on the Logitech Mouse M720 Triathlon we&#8217;d never noticed, but the right thumb of ours had accidentally been triggering that toggles between &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a view of the desktop overlayed with icons representing the apps open &#8230; and &#8230;<\/li>\n<li>back to what was going on before &#8220;a view of the desktop overlayed with icons representing the apps open&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; but, option wise, you can program other (bigger) buttons to configure many more gestures than just this!  We&#8217;ll see?!  Because, we think, when it comes to learning (and &#8220;Doh!&#8221; moments like this) &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIgnorance is not bliss.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d72488' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d72488\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/mouse\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d72488' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We find Information Technology work is full of &#8230; you stumble onto a feature, software or hardware &#8230; startling &#8230; initially unexpected and annoying &#8230; but &#8230; in another scenario &#8230; yes &#8230; very useful, and even time saving &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/bluetooth-mouse-show-desktop-primer-tutorial\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,19,29,33,37],"tags":[174,249,4840,319,322,360,485,555,611,5452,5453,3810,2178,812,4950,4910,1166,1319],"class_list":["post-72488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elearning","category-hardware","category-installers","category-operating-system","category-software","category-tutorials","tag-button","tag-configuration","tag-configure","tag-desktop","tag-device","tag-download","tag-gesture","tag-hardware-2","tag-install","tag-logitech","tag-m720-triathlon","tag-macbook-air","tag-macos","tag-mouse","tag-point","tag-pointing","tag-software-2","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72493,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72488\/revisions\/72493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}