Package: xfree86-common Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Severity: wishlist This bug relates to http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=181579 but it is stated that this bug is archived and cannot be changed, so I open a new one.
On http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#lefthandmouse the following section can be improved with the proposed replacement below. ========================================================================= How do I set up the mouse buttons for left-handed use? Thanks to "ulisses" for suggesting this question for the FAQ, and providing some of the information given. This depends on how many buttons your mouse has. If it has two or three, I have an answer. If it has more than three, and/or a wheel, I'd appreciate submissions from lefties with such mice who have gotten them reconfigured. For a quick fix, you can execute the following while in an X session: xmodmap -e "pointer = 2 1" (for two-button mice) xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" (for three-button mice) To have the pointer buttons remapped for all of your X sessions, add the following line to your $HOME/.Xmodmap file (creating the file if necessary): pointer = 2 1 (for two-button mice) pointer = 3 2 1 (for three-button mice) and call xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap from your $HOME/.xsession file. Note, however, that the system administrator can configure the X Window System such that users' .xsession files in their $HOME directories are ignored. See the Xsession.options(5) manual page for more information. For more information about xmodmap, see xmodmap(1x). The following information is courtesy of Osamu Aoki. There is a gpm-based approach to solving this problem if the XFree86 X server is configured to use /dev/gpmdata for a mouse device. The -B option to gpm should help. You can use it by adding it to the append line in /etc/gpm.conf. ========================================================================= ========================================================================= How do I set up the mouse buttons for left-handed use? Thanks to "ulisses" for suggesting this question for the FAQ, and providing some of the information given. Use one of the following command depending on how many buttons your mouse has. xmodmap -e "pointer = 2 1" (for two-button mice) xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1" (for three-button mice) xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5" (for three-button + wheel mice) Note that the 4 and 5 buttons represent the wheel up and down actions and thus should not be modified. To have the pointer buttons remapped for all of your X sessions, add the following line to your $HOME/.Xmodmap file (creating the file if necessary): pointer = 2 1 (for two-button mice) pointer = 3 2 1 (for three-button mice) pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 (for three-button + wheel mice) and call xmodmap $HOME/.Xmodmap from your $HOME/.xsession file. Note, however, that the system administrator can configure the X Window System such that users' .xsession files in their $HOME directories are ignored. See the Xsession.options(5) manual page for more information. For more information about xmodmap, see xmodmap(1x). This xmodmap approach for setting a left-handed mouse only works for the XFree86 3.x series. It produces bad behaviors (button confusion) when used for the XFree86 4.x series. If you are running a XFree86 4.x series, you should use the gpm approach. The following information is courtesy of Osamu Aoki. The gpm approach is to feed X with the mouse data coming from gpm, a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles. The gpm utility is of interest here because it can be configured to handle left-handed mouse. This approach as the drawback that all the users of the system have to share the same gpm configuration, while with xmodmap every user could have his own .Xmodmap file. To use the gpm approach, 2 files need to be modified. The provided configuration is for a Logitech three-button + wheel mouse. One can easily adapt this configuration by changing "device", "type" and "Option Protocol" according to the type of the mouse you are using. /etc/gpm.conf ------------- device=/dev/input/mice repeat_type=raw type=imps2 append='-B 321' /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 --------------------- Section "InputDevice" Identifier "gpm mouse" Driver "mouse" Option "CorePointer" Option "Device" "/dev/gpmdata" Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection ========================================================================== -- Marc-Aurèle DARCHE <http://www.cynode.org/> AFUL <http://www.aful.org/> Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Linux/Logiciels Libres French speaking Linux and Libre Software Users' Association
