Mouse won't adopt LH button configuration

[mittfh]

Righteo, I just have one teething problem with 2009.1 left...

 

Being a left hander, I have my mouse sitting on the left side of my keyboard, and configured to use left hand button layout (i.e. Secondary / Wheel / Primary).

However, since installing 2009.1, it has adopted the right hand button layout (i.e. Primary / Wheel / Secondary), regardless of whether the orientation in Mouse Properties is set to left handes or right handed.

 

I've even attempted remapping the buttons in xorg.conf - again, this has no effect at all (and I've since commented out the line).

 

The mischievous rodent concerned is a Logitech USB optical mouse (M/N: M-BJ58) using the default "Any USB or PS/2 mouse" driver.

[scarecrow]

xorg.conf is ignored regarding input devices in 2009.1. If you do want the xorg.conf settings being respected, you have to disable device hotplugging (evdev).

[mittfh]

xorg.conf is ignored regarding input devices in 2009.1. If you do want the xorg.conf settings being respected, you have to disable device hotplugging (evdev).

 

OK, but why would it also ignore mouse orientation in "Mouse Preferences" (System --> Preferences --> Mouse)?

It respects double click speed and the Ctrl key 'sonar', just not the button orientation...

[theYinYeti]

This seems like a bug to me, and should be reported at qa.mandriva.com.

 

Yves.

[mittfh]

Just a quick update - I have reported it as a bug, and it has been examined. Here's the latest update:

 

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=50735

 

--- Comment #1 from Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@mandriva.com> 2009-05-14 16:14:43 CEST ---

bug in gnome-settings-daemon (gconf key is correctly changed by configuration

UI) or Xorg, not sure yet.

[Lardy]

Here's a workaround:

 

$ vim ~/.bash_profile

 

# Configure left-hand mouse due to Gnome bug

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"