Left-Hand Mouse and VMWare was Re: Updates to be installed

[Christopher Beland]

The bug that was most recently filed on the left-handed mouse issue was
this one:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487849

Since both I and the reporter of that bug can successfully set our mice
to be left-handed, the bug was closed.

Lawrence, I don't see anything in Bugzilla from you on this issue; it
seems as far as the system is concerned, there is no problem.  (Mailing
list posts don't guarantee that an issue has actually been brought to
the attention of the appropriate developer.)

Below is the message I previously sent containing the technical
information I would recommend you include in a new report.  Since bug
487849 was closed and was probably not hardware-specific, I recommend
filing a new bug by visiting:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi

Good luck,

Beland

-------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Christopher Beland <beland at alum.mit.edu>
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Mouse choices
> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 23:53:35 -0400
> 
> OK, Lawrence, I'm assuming the following is true for you:
> 
> >>
> I go to System -> Preferences -> Mouse from the Gnome menu.  On the
> General tab, I select "Left-handed" under "Mouse Orientation" and hit
> Close.  When I click on a desktop icon with the right mouse button, a
> context menu appears, indicating the mouse is still set to
> right-handed.  If I change the setting back to right-handed and then
> to left-handed again, there is still no effect.
> <<
> 
> That's the level of detail that package maintainers are looking for in a
> bug report; there are a lot of different desktops and configurations and
> whatnot that people use, and they need enough context to narrow down the
> problem.
> 
> To ensure that the appropriate package maintainer sees your problem
> report, the best thing to do is to file it at
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com.  The first thing to do is to make sure a
> problem has not already been reported, and as it happens a search
> reveals your problem has already been reported here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487849
> 
> You can potentially help identify the source of the problem by sharing
> information from your own system.  I would add something like the
> following in a comment, assuming this is correct:
> 
> >>
> I'm experiencing the same with being unable to set my mouse to
> left-handed (no freeze up).  I have a Logitech wireless Keyboard and
> mouse combo x710 USB.  In /etc/selinux/config, I have Selinux= enforcing
> and Selinuxtype=targeted, but I don't see any error messages
> in /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession-errors that look related to the
> mouse problem.  I started experiencing this problem somewhere between
> the F11 beta and preview releases.
> <<
> 
> I would also attach the output of "lsusb"; do "yum install usbutils" to
> install this program if you don't have it already.
> 
> If you have more time to put into diagnosing this, identifying the
> last-good and first-bad RPMs with respect to this problem would probably
> help the package maintainer out, unless someone shouts out otherwise.
> 
> I'm not an expert, but you could try reverting control-center,
> xorg-x11-drv-mouse, and kernel with "rpm --oldpackage".  If you don't
> have them handy, old versions are archived on
> http://koji.fedoraproject.org (search in the upper right for the package
> you need).  No doubt they have many dependencies you would also need to
> track down; it might be easier to start over again with the beta release
> and update packages piecemeal until the problem returns.
> 
> Alternatively, you can just wait until a developer asks for further help
> diagnosing the issue.  If you add a comment to the above-mentioned bug,
> you will get added to the cc: list (as long as that checkbox is also
> selected when you submit your comment) and thus get an email whenever
> there is an update to the bug.
> 
> FYI, if you have any other problems you would like to report, we hope
> that:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests
> 
> is an adequate guide to help you find the information package
> maintainers need to track them down, even for those just starting out
> with Fedora.
> 
> Thanks for reporting this problem, and good luck!
> 
> --Beland