Mouse choices

[Bill Davidsen]

Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 11:06 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> ... and I'll bet you're not left-handed either! :)
> 
> Seriously, I think you could be right. I just tried this on my laptop
> using my external mouse, and then tried it again using my laptop's
> touchpad / mouse buttons. I have the rawhide updates as of this morning.
> 
> Results: The touchpad worked instantly - just as your mouse did. But the
> external mouse didn't change at all. I even logged off and then back on
> and the external mouse (a Microsoft USB Presenter Mouse) remained in
> right-handed mode while the laptop touchpad buttons were in left-handed
> mode.
> 
Well if I have helped to clarify things I'm happy. At least now you can do a 
really good and clear bugreport, and with the extra info to help reproduce the 
problem developers may be able to help you quickly.

Good luck with that one.

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