Bug 169528
| Summary: | Swapping mouse buttons doesn't work with "AlwaysCore" devices | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Bastien Nocera <bnocera> |
| Component: | XFree86 | Assignee: | X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | benl, tao |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2006-05-02 10:20:21 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 170417 | ||
I believe we looked into this before, and it wasn't a bug, but a limitation in xmodmap et al. We'll need to re-investigate this during the RHEL4U3 cycle, but it probably falls under the lines of "feature enhancement request". |
1) check the mapping with 'xmodmap -pp' (it should be Button=Code) 2) change the mapping with 'xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5" ' 3) check the mapping again ('xmodmap -pp') it should have buttons 3 and 1 swapped 4) the mouse should then behave as known-broken (left and right behaving like the right mouse button) In /etc/X11/XF86Config (or /etc/X11/xorg.conf) the 'ServerLayout' section looks like: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "DevInputMice" "AlwaysCore" EndSection If changed to look like the following, the button swap will work: Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Layout" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "DevInputMice" "CorePointer" EndSection This problem happens on a bare X (failsafe with only twm and xterm). Note that the problem also occurs on RHEL4, and FC4's x.org.