Bug#374652: xserver-xorg-input-mouse: trouble trying to permute mouse buttons (lefthanded)

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 15:23 +0200, Pascal A. Dupuis wrote:
> 
> excerpt from xorg.conf:
> Section "InputDevice"
>         Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
>         Driver          "mouse"
>         Option          "CorePointer"
>         Option          "Device"                "/dev/input/mice"
>         Option          "Protocol"              "ImPS/2"
>         Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
>         Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
> EndSection
> 
> This is for a USB mouse. If I try to use it lefthanded, either using
> xfce4 mouse setup  or with xmodmad -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9", 
> xev shows this strange behaviour:

[...]

> That is, with the left-handed config, pressing either button 1 or 3
> generates both events. Any clue ?

Just a guess, but xmodmap (and XFCE is probably using the same
mechanism) only affects the core pointer. Do you have any other
non-CorePointer pointer devices configured in X?


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