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

[Lawrence E. Graves]

On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 21:11 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:
> 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
> 
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Thanks for your time and understanding.  With people like you, I will
advance in my understanding of the technical aspect of computers. 
Lawrence E. Graves <lgraves at risingstarmbc.com>