On 06/06/2017 03:11 PM, Doug wrote: > > On 06/06/2017 03:01 PM, stan wrote: >> On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:28:03 +0100 >> andrea <mariofutire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. >>> One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard. >>> >>> I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right >>> handed. >> I can't answer your question, but I also use two input devices, one on >> the left and one on the right. And rather than always worry that an >> update was going to mess up my configuration, I just learned to use a >> mouse with my left hand in mirror fashion. That is, the ring finger >> does button 1, and the pointer finger does button 3. It took a week or >> so, but now I don't even think about it. My left hand had no muscle >> memory like my right hand, so it was just a matter of learning as if >> that was the right way. >> >> This also means that I can use someone's right hand mouse at his / her >> computer with my left hand if I want, if we are working together on >> something. > One other idea: The mouse buttons are switches, of course. > If you can get at the switch connections, you could cross-wire > them. No software modifications at all. Wait, isn't that the same philosophy that IBM had for their floppy drives where they couldn't be bothered to put the correct drive select jumpers in, wired them all up so drive select 1 was active and required you to split and put a weird twist in the ribbon cable for the first drive? Have we learned nothing in the 40+ years since? Aw, what the hell? Dig out your soldering irons and jewelers' screwdrivers! I'm in! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Let us think the unthinkable. Let us do the undoable. Let us - - prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may - - not eff it up after all. - - -- Douglas Adams - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
