Re: Mouse works with X but breaks as a left-handed...

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Paul Gear wrote:

> Carlos Duque wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm a newbie with Debian, but not so much with Linux.. My problem is
> > that my wheelmouse works fine with X but it goes crazy when I change
> > it to left-handed (kde or gnome).  The middle button stops working
> > and the other two show me the menu.
> >
> > I checked the XConfig86-4 but seems fine, I even tried one generated
> > by Knoppix which worked with knoppix, but it doesn't seem to work
> > with Debian....
> >    
>
> I have exactly the same problem.  The left-handed configuration works
> with Red Hat 9, SuSE 9.1, and Morphix 0.4.1, but not Debian sarge.  Any
> ideas gratefully accepted.
>  
I'm unfamiliar with any left-handed settings for the mouse (didn't even 
know they exist; I just move my mouse to the left side and train my 
fingers to use the normal right-handed button configuration; this way it 
works for any computer I sit down at).

Still, the first thing that came into my mind is that if you are using 
gpm (the non-X mouse driver), you may be configuring the X driver for 
left-handedness but neglecting to do so for gpm.

--
Kent