Bug 408981 - xmodmap cannot be used to change the mouse buttons for left handed mouse
Summary: xmodmap cannot be used to change the mouse buttons for left handed mouse
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-mouse
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
low
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Hutterer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-12-03 18:15 UTC by dann
Modified: 2018-04-11 18:35 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 9
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-07-17 00:15:28 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:

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Xorg.0.log (78.04 KB, text/plain)
2007-12-06 07:06 UTC, dann 		no flags Details
xorg.conf (1.18 KB, text/plain)
2007-12-06 07:07 UTC, dann 		no flags Details
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Description dann 2007-12-03 18:15:58 UTC 
Description of problem:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12"

does not work anymore to change the mouse buttons for a left handed mouse.

The command completes without error, and it seems to have worked:

xmodmap -pp

There are 12 pointer buttons defined.

    Physical        Button
     Button          Code
        1              3
        2              2
        3              1
        4              4
        5              5
        6              6
        7              7
        8              8
        9              9
       10             10
       11             11
       12             12

but the button assignment does change in fact. 

This is an up to date F8 Thinkpad T43 machine. It is a fresh install.
The window manager if fvwm. 
I've had FC5 before on the machine and everything worked fine.

Can this be fixed? The mouse is not currently usable...

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-1.fc8

Thanks!
Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2007-12-04 22:33:37 UTC 
Just curious, what kind of mouse have twelve buttons? Anyway, could we please
get /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log as uncompressed separate
attachments to this bug, please?
Comment 2 dann 2007-12-06 07:06:50 UTC 
Created attachment 279311 [details]
Xorg.0.log
Comment 3 dann 2007-12-06 07:07:38 UTC 
Created attachment 279331 [details]
xorg.conf
Comment 4 dann 2007-12-06 07:10:11 UTC 
Things work if I change the mouse settings in xorg.conf to be like the ones I
had on FC5 on the same machine:
(and the mouse now only has 9 buttons)

Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier     "single head configuration"
        Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
        InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
        InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
        InputDevice    "Synaptics" "AlwaysCore"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Synaptics"
        Driver      "synaptics"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
        Option      "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
        Option      "SendCoreEvents" "true"
EndSection
Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 04:04:47 UTC 
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 6 Peter Hutterer 2008-07-17 00:15:28 UTC 
Not sure what the issue was there, but xmodmap definitely works in F9.

Closing as fixed in CURRENTRELEASE.
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