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FS#3200 - [REQ]Choice between left-handed and right-handed mouse

Attached to Project: Frugalware
Opened by Thomas Legrand (Fox) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 16:04 GMT+1
Last edited by crazy (bugs) - Wednesday, 02 July 2008, 01:07 GMT+1
Task Type Feature Request
Category Installer
Status New
Assigned To No-one
Operating System x86_64 / i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version -current
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Hello,

I'm a left-handed, but, before, I used my mouse like a right-handed. Now, I have to use it like a left-handed because my mouse buttons are very... hard for my finger. So, it will be possible to have the choice between a right-handed and a left-handed buttons assignation in the future, during the installation like the choice of the keyboard map or the choice of the language, please ?

It is not a request with a selfish goal :-s. Before, I didn't seen that there were left-handed people who had troubles with it :-s. And I think that request will make Frugalware more... convivial for users, no ?

Thank you to read this post and to think about the minority of the left-handed :-)
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Comment by crazy (bugs) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 22:16 GMT+1
On KDE you can change the mouse to work for left handed (Control Center -> Peripherals -> Mouse ) on Gnome I *think* you can do that from Preferences->Mouse.

However I'm not sure how to do that on install for all DE's. Maybe Option "ButtonMapping" "..." will help in xorg.conf but that again depends on what
mouse one is using.
Comment by Thomas Legrand (Fox) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 22:56 GMT+1
Hello,

Thank you for your answer. I didn't think that will be different for all Desktop Environnement :-s. In fact, I am using a window manager : Fluxbox. I'll try to modify the option which you had quote. Thank you again :-)
Comment by crazy (bugs) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 22:58 GMT+1
I will try to figure on howto change this from Fluxbox.
Comment by crazy (bugs) - Tuesday, 01 July 2008, 23:03 GMT+1
How do you start Fluxbox ? from ~/.xinitrc ?
Comment by Thomas Legrand (Fox) - Wednesday, 02 July 2008, 00:16 GMT+1
Hello :-)

Not from ~/.xinitrc. In fact, I am using the login manager Slim, too. So I have modified /etc/slim.conf to launch Fluxbox after my identification.
But, I think I have found for the left-handed mouse. I added in the ~/.xinitrc file and in the ~/.xsession file :

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

It works only on the window manager, but... under full screen apps, it doesn't work, except Return To Castle Wolfenstein. But, If I try OpenTTD in full screen or other game like Quake 4, Quake Wars, Doom 3, the mouse assignation is for right-handed :-s

Thank you for your help and your answers, crazy :-)
Comment by crazy (bugs) - Wednesday, 02 July 2008, 01:16 GMT+1
vmiklos , btw we could do something like :

Add this to default xorg.conf commented , eg: #Option "ButtonMapping" "DUMMY" ,
then change xconfig to ask for left-handed , if someone say yes we could ask again for what keys to map
( some folks may know ) if someone tells what keys we replace DUMMY by the keys and uncomment this , if not
then we replace DUMMY with default which should be "3 2 1" ( may work for most common mouse ) and when
left-handed question is no we remove the whole option from xorg.conf.

Sounds crazy ?:)

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