Left handed mouse control

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Thursday, April 19th 2007, 8:31am

I installed PCLOS 2007 TR3, KDE 3.5.6 is the gui. I have tried to get my mouse to switch to left handed. Nothing changes. The prior KDE 3.5.5 didn't have this problem. Do you have a bug in this module? Is there another way to assign the buttons? It is very difficult for me to use a right handed mouse configuration.

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Rinse

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Thursday, April 19th 2007, 10:45am

you can use xmodmap to change the button order:

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xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

but in the mouse section of kcontrol you should be able to do this as well.

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Thursday, April 19th 2007, 6:27pm

mouse problems

Yes, I should be able to change the mouse to left handed in kcontrol, however nothing changes when I select left handed. It shows that I have made the change. This just happened since installing KDE 3.5.6 included with PCLOS 2007 TR3.
xmodmap doesn't have an effect either. Output from terminal session:
[root@localhost ~]# xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
Warning: Only changing the first 3 of 9 buttons.

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Friday, April 20th 2007, 7:28pm

RE: mouse problems

You have a 9-button mouse? Maybe the mouse that's configured in x.conf is the wrong one, so it won't recognize the changes you make. Just a thought.

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Friday, April 20th 2007, 8:09pm

RE: mouse problems

I do not have a 9 button mouse, it has only 3 buttons..

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Friday, April 20th 2007, 9:06pm

try starting another windowmanager (like twm) and check if the mouse works as expected.
Also try the xmod command in twm to see if it has any effect..

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Friday, April 20th 2007, 9:35pm

twm is not installed, so I tried drak3d and it wouldn't start up. I did a file search for x.conf but it was not found.

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Friday, April 20th 2007, 9:41pm

That might be the wrong name, actually. If you have XFree86, I think the name is different. Either way, I'd stick with Rinse's advice. The plain old X interface is a good generic environment to test with.

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Friday, April 20th 2007, 9:43pm

Is this a KDE problem or is it PCLOS? I have tried changing the mouse in the "configure your computer" but there is no change in the hardware.

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Sunday, April 22nd 2007, 10:25am

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Originally posted by corktowner
twm is not installed, so I tried drak3d and it wouldn't start up. I did a file search for x.conf but it was not found.

twm comes with your x-server, so it should be installed (unless pclinuxos ripped it out of the xorg-package)

x.conf is incorrect, should be xorg.conf or XFree86.conf (both reside in the directory /etc/X11)

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Sunday, April 22nd 2007, 10:27am

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Originally posted by corktowner
Is this a KDE problem or is it PCLOS? I have tried changing the mouse in the "configure your computer" but there is no change in the hardware.

i think it is either a problem in your mousesetting in xorg.conf or a pclinux problem.
The xmodmap command i gave should work, kde does not influence it.

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Sunday, April 22nd 2007, 10:32pm

twm

So how do I start twm? Also, attached is the xorg.conf and XF86Config files.

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Monday, April 23rd 2007, 1:55am

Look at inputdevice section (for the mouse), mine is like this:

Source code

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier     "Mouse[1]"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Buttons" "5"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Name" "Logitech Optical Mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "explorerps/2"
    Option         "Vendor" "Sysp"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

In your place I would try to add just this two lines:

	Source code
1 2	Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Option "Buttons" "5"

Left / right handed setting does makes difference on my system (kde 3.5.6, opensuse 10.2)

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Monday, April 23rd 2007, 6:53am