Ubuntu
gpointing-device-settings package

  1. Bug #489830
  2. Comment #66

Comment 66 for bug 489830

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Douglas Moyes (aragorn-stellimare) wrote :

This is still an issue with 12.04.1. I'm suprised it's been over 3 years now and there's no fix. I've never needed this feature before till I needed to configure a system to use a trackball instead of a mouse to enable the middle mouse button emmulation.

The new Ubuntu system config menu doesn't even give an option to configure a pointing device. Almost all systems had an option to swap left/right mouse buttons--even MS-DOS mouse drivers, Unbuntu has become one of the few OS's to NOT have this ability.

Most new people aren't familair with creating and editing an xorg config file, nor using xinput to work around these issues. They'd just see a broken OS, so this is a pretty important bug IMO.