Mouse choices

[Bill Davidsen]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 08:20 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Lawrence E. Graves wrote:
>>> I am still not able to choose left-handed or right-handed at mouse
>>> control.
>> What have you tried? In Gnome, you can try System --> Preferences
>> --> Hardware --> Mouse - it works for me.
> 
> Just for clarity, Lawrence already reported that this problem is on F11
> Preview. I was able to duplicate the problem on my system. I tested it
> to make sure, even though I am not left handed.
> 
> ...That wound up sounding like a line from a favorite movie of mine. :)
> 
There's more to this than meets the eye, I just tried on fc11 and it worked fine 
for me, and instantly. I clicked left-handed and had to right click to exit the 
pop-up. That machine hasn't been updated in 12 hours or so, but it's relatively 
current.

I just did the system->pref->mouse thing. I looked at the top post in this and 
it wasn't clear if the choice wasn't offered or it didn't work:

   "I am still not able to choose left-handed or right-handed at mouse
   control."

I think there was an earlier post on this to the testing list, it sounds familiar.

If the choice is not offered then I would look in the entrails of the Xorg log 
and see what kind of mouse it thinks you have. Clearly if it believes you have a 
Mac one button mouse or such, it isn't "handed" to change.

> Anyway, it works just fine using the procedure you specified on F10.
> However, the same procedure on F11 Preview fails. We should probably
> move this thread to fedora-test-list instead.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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