Help in slething the left-handed bluetoooth mouse problem?

[Mike Cohler]

I have solved this after a lot of googling.

By adding a line
Option   "ButtonMapping" "3 2 1 4 5"
to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the mouse section the mouse, is now
left-handed ( after stopping X and restarting) but unfortunately is
now the same (left-handed) for all users. My original need was to
switch for one user, but in this case it is the primary user so it
does not matter.

The touchpad can be switched independently via the KDE control centre as before.

Mike

On 4/15/06, Mike Cohler <mike.cohler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been trying unsuccessfully to switch the left and right mouse
> buttons on a Logitach V270 bluetooth mouse working with a Samsung Q35
> laptop, in Fedora Core 5 with a KDE desktop. (kernel
> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp).
>
> First attempt was to go to the KDE control centre and then to
> Peripherals -> mouse, and then switch to left handed.  This changed
> the touchpad over to left handed but not the blueooth mouse.
>
> Second attempt at something more involved was to open a terminal, and
> type xev. In the window that opened I moved the cursor into the box
> and clicked the left and right mouse buttons to confirm that they
> represented button events 1 and 3 which they did.  Indeed I also hit
> the left and right touchpad buttons to also get 1 and 3 shown in the
> xev window.
>
> I hoped that I could swap these for both mouse and touchpad in one fell swoop.
> So I did xmodmap -pp, and this showed that there were 12 button events defined.
> So I did xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12"
> xmodmap -pp confirmed that the order was switched between 1 and 3 -
> and the touchpad had indeed swapped over to left-handed operation....
> BUT the bluetooth mouse still produced the left button event using the
> left button - i.e. the effect was exactly the same as when the swap
> was made in the KDE control centre!
>
> I am stumped -
>
> Anyone got any possible ways I might work around this to achieve the
> objective?  Or has anyone got a link to some information about the
> options in the new xorg ?  I believe that there is a new option
> available in the xorg.conf for the mouse section of the form:
> Option   "Buttons"  "1 2 3 4 5 6 7" etc.
>
> Any help appreciated -
> Mike
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>
> mike cohler
>


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mike cohler