From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040202 Description of problem: When I configure RHEL 3 with two mice in XF86Config and configure Gnome to enable left-handed mouse, only the primary "CorePointer" mouse is configured. The secondary "AlwaysCore" mouse is still right-handed. X windows, GNOME and KDE need to offer a manner to set each mouse individually left- or right-handed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Configure two mice in XF86Config 2. Change GNOME mouse setting to Left-Handed. Actual Results: Only primary mouse "CorePointer" is changed to left-handed. Expected Results: Both mice "CorePointer" and "AlwaysCore" should be left-handed at the very least. Ideally, each mouse would be separately configured for left- or right-handed. Additional info: RHEL 3 U2.
Thanks, it would be helpful for us to understand the usage scenario for configuring the mice separately; is this for two people using one workstation?
The usage scenario is that a PS/2 mouse is configured during kickstart. Our XF86Config file also contains the USB mouse entry. My system only has the USB mouse currently, but since it's configured as secondary (AlwaysCore) instead of primary (CorePointer), it's not being changed to left-handed. Only if I comment out the PS/2 mouse will the USB mouse become left-handed. I'd like to be able to plug in a PS/2 mouse in the future (and possibly remove the USB mouse) without messing with XF86Config. We have PS/2 and USB mouse configured at the same time to avoid changing the config file as users plug and unplug USB mice.
I believe the following Fedora bugs might be related: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=123800 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=124344
Is it a bug or a feature that XFree86 only supports left-handed mice as CorePointer and not AlwaysCore? I would like for my PS/2 mouse and USB mouse to be left-handed at the same time. This is currently not possible. I believe this is a bug in RHEL (and all previous Red Hat releases) and I'd like to see it fixed. If RHEL is an enterprise workstation and server release, I believe it needs to be fixed, not neglected. Shall I open a support case and escalate this?
adding dev ack back because devel work is done.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0327.html