Comment 5 for bug 563530

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viktorm (viktor-mastoridis-co) wrote :

Me again. What I wrote before was partially true: I logged in-out and the left mouse button worked and I assumed it would work after rebooting (as earlier attempts wouln't work even with log in/out).
Since then , I have restarted the computer and the behaviour is the same - Lubuntu wouldn't recognize the mouse button change.

I do apologize for this, as I was really excited about it - I spent quite a time trying to figure out this show-stopper...

This is what I did:
I created a folder named lxde (and lxde_, just in case) in the .config folder under ~. Then, when I first changed the mouse settings, lxinput created a config file whose content looks like this:

[Mouse]
AccFactor=20
AccThreshold=30
LeftHanded=1

[Keyboard]
Delay=500
Interval=30
Beep=1

But seems to me that initially, Lubuntu isn't reading this file. Only when run lxinput again, the mouse becomes left-handed.

Other strange thing is that some applications, randomly, when they are first opened, behave like right-handed. Meaning, the mouse buttons seems to be swapped for that application only. Clicking aside (anywhere) and back to the application would bring the left-handed mouse behaviour back to that app.

Finally, for the record, I would like to mention that I do not run clean Lubuntu install - I initially installed Xubuntu 10.4, and seeing that my old computer is too slow, via Synaptic I fetched Lubuntu.
Then I removed everything xfce-connected, and reinstalled Lubuntu-desktop in synaptic.