Cannot switch mouse primary button to Right (left-handed) in Settings

[Stephen Allen]

Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know if it's related to evdev or what.
Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight. Updated this morning and problem persists.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170920)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Forgot to add that this is 'vanilla gnome'.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Still happening - surely I'm not the only person that uses a mouse left handed?! Can someone look at this please?

[Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)]

This could be a regression from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/1:3.28.0-0ubuntu2

Subscribed Iain Lane.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

👍 Thanks SQ.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks for your report.

It works fine for me on g-c-c 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu6.

The command line way to set it for left-handed is:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed true

and to see the current setting:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed

Changing that value is what the GUI in g-c-c is for. Can you please check, through the latter command, if the value is changed when you use g-c-c?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

@Simon: What makes you think that modifications of the GUI for the region panel has anything to do with whether the primary button setting is effective?

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Thanks Gunnar. It's sticking in 'gsettings': gsettings get
org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed
false
Yet the left handed primary button (right button on mouse) still shows me a
contextual menu.
So, yes, the value is changed, but doesn't have any affect.

On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:20 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> @Simon: What makes you think that modifications of the GUI for the
> region panel has anything to do with whether the primary button setting
> is effective?
>
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> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button in GCC
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Er, sorry I posted the wrong output, I had toggled it. It's showing as true
when switched to left handed in G-C-C:
'gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed
true'

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 7:23 AM Stephen <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks Gunnar. It's sticking in 'gsettings': gsettings get
> org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed
> false
> Yet the left handed primary button (right button on mouse) still shows me
> a contextual menu.
> So, yes, the value is changed, but doesn't have any affect.
>
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 9:20 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>> @Simon: What makes you think that modifications of the GUI for the
>> region panel has anything to do with whether the primary button setting
>> is effective?
>>
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>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758306
>>
>> Title:
>> Cannot switch mouse primary button in GCC
>>
>> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
>> Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
>> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
>> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
>> if it's related to evdev or what.
>> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
>> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>>
>> ProblemType: Bug
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
>> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
>> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
>> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
>> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
>> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
>> Architecture: amd64
>> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
>> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
>> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
>> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
>> (20170920)
>> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
>> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>>
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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Thanks. Then the question is why it doesn't have any effect for you.

Another test: Can you please create an additional user, log in to that user, and test it there? If it works for the other user, the problem is somewhere in the $HOME of your first user.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Makes sense.
OK I had already tried a new user account, but tried again (just in case).
Doesn't affect the issue - it still remains (I can change it in G-C-C but
doesn't change mouse behaviour). Complicating trouble shooting is
continuously running into the 'plymouth corruption bug' at login making it
difficult to choose the new user! As well the bug in gdm3 'losing keyboard
and mouse control' when I logout necessitates a hard reboot each time.
Annoying. lol
In terms of the left handed mouse issue, it doesn't make much sense that it
would be my home settings - as stated this worked several days ago fine, a
recent update borked it, so a regression somewhere.

On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:00 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Thanks. Then the question is why it doesn't have any effect for you.
>
> Another test: Can you please create an additional user, log in to that
> user, and test it there? If it works for the other user, the problem is
> somewhere in the $HOME of your first user.
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758306
>
> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button in GCC
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

My 'problem' is that I can't reproduce the issue.

You now mentioned a few things, which indicate that your system isn't in the best shape.

While I have tested this on "Ubuntu with Xorg", you mentioned that you use "vanilla GNOME" (I suppose that vanilla GNOME means Wayland). Any chance you can log in to an "Ubuntu with Xorg" session and check if the problem is present for you there?

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Well I'm using bare metal and my ~/home is in good shape, from backups. In
terms of my system I'm running a vanilla Ubuntu-Gnome and the reason it's
not in 'Good Shape' is Ubuntu bugs. ;-) quite Frankly!
Are you running your instance on bare metal or emulation?

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:11 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> My 'problem' is that I can't reproduce the issue.
>
> You now mentioned a few things, which indicate that your system isn't in
> the best shape.
>
> While I have tested this on "Ubuntu with Xorg", you mentioned that you
> use "vanilla GNOME" (I suppose that vanilla GNOME means Wayland). Any
> chance you can log in to an "Ubuntu with Xorg" session and check if the
> problem is present for you there?
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758306
>
> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button in GCC
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

No Vanilla Gnome means 'Vanilla-Gnome-Session'.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:39 PM Stephen <email address hidden> wrote:

> Well I'm using bare metal and my ~/home is in good shape, from backups.
> In terms of my system I'm running a vanilla Ubuntu-Gnome and the reason
> it's not in 'Good Shape' is Ubuntu bugs. ;-) quite Frankly!
> Are you running your instance on bare metal or emulation?
>
> On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 3:11 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
> <email address hidden>> wrote:
>
>> My 'problem' is that I can't reproduce the issue.
>>
>> You now mentioned a few things, which indicate that your system isn't in
>> the best shape.
>>
>> While I have tested this on "Ubuntu with Xorg", you mentioned that you
>> use "vanilla GNOME" (I suppose that vanilla GNOME means Wayland). Any
>> chance you can log in to an "Ubuntu with Xorg" session and check if the
>> problem is present for you there?
>>
>> --
>> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
>> report.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758306
>>
>> Title:
>> Cannot switch mouse primary button in GCC
>>
>> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
>> Incomplete
>>
>> Bug description:
>> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
>> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
>> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
>> if it's related to evdev or what.
>> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
>> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>>
>> ProblemType: Bug
>> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
>> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
>> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
>> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
>> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
>> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
>> Architecture: amd64
>> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
>> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
>> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
>> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
>> (20170920)
>> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
>> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1758306/+subscriptions
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[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Gunnar I'm on Xorg Vanilla-Gnome-Session. Jeremy had mentioned a few weeks back that he needed testing on 'vanilla-gnome-session'(thats an installable package, Gunnar) so I installed and am reporting bugs on it. Hope this clears up any misunderstanding. Cheers.

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

I'm using real installs, not virtual.

I suppose you are talking about the vanilla-gnome-desktop package, then, i.e. a meta package whose purpose is to install GNOME packages. The login options are provided by the gnome-session package, and the options are:

GNOME
GNOME on Xorg

I had gnome-session installed already, chose the GNOME option (which means GNOME on Wayland), and could still successfully change the mouse behavior via g-c-c.

So I couldn't reproduce the issue you described this time either, and I'm out of ideas.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Well I don't know what to say - I'm using Ubuntu's environment. Somehow
over time I didn't notice that the vanilla-gnome-session was
removed/replaced. Now I have packages that I didn't have before. I'll
delete the gnome environment settings I have in my ~/home and see what
happens. These wouldn't have any effect on the plymouth-bug or losing
keyboard and mouse focus on gdm3. This iteration isn't worthy of a 'LTS'
release.

On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:11 PM Gunnar Hjalmarsson <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> I'm using real installs, not virtual.
>
> I suppose you are talking about the vanilla-gnome-desktop package, then,
> i.e. a meta package whose purpose is to install GNOME packages. The
> login options are provided by the gnome-session package, and the options
> are:
>
> GNOME
> GNOME on Xorg
>
> I had gnome-session installed already, chose the GNOME option (which
> means GNOME on Wayland), and could still successfully change the mouse
> behavior via g-c-c.
>
> So I couldn't reproduce the issue you described this time either, and
> I'm out of ideas.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => New
>
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> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758306
>
> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button in GCC
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Thanks a lot! Been driving me nuts and afraid that I'll get used to this
and not able to go back.

On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 4:15 PM Launchpad Bug Tracker <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
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> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button in GCC
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)]

Bug #1763339 is probably related.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

x-x-i-libinput 0.27.1 should fix that, it's on the upload queue

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Confirm that as of Saturday April 14/18 update: the issue is resolved for me.

[Brian Olsen (o-brian-e)]

I am also confirming that the issue is fixed. Thanks!

[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

After poking around Google to find a solution, I came here, and I'm still stumped. I just upgraded to 18.04 last night, and I tried GCC to swap my mouse/touchpad buttons back to lefty-normal, and that failed. So I went to the terminal. "gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed" comes back with "true".

I saw someone say that there was an update that fixed this, but I've checked for updates after upgrading, and the only update was for the Chrome browser. Nothing mouse-related, and my buttons still aren't right.

Any ideas? This is a major PITA for a lefty who uses these buttons all the time. Thank goodness it's not my work laptop (can't convince the office to ditch Windows), but it's still a big problem. In fact, I am writing this on my work laptop because I kept hitting the wrong button on my personal one. It's putting me at a bit of a handicap.

[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

Actually, I just tried plugging in my office wireless mouse into the personal laptop, and the buttons work fine on that. So it's JUST the buttons with the track pad. In every previous version of Ubuntu I've used, I've always just changed the touchpad buttons through GCC under the mouse settings. Is there another way to change settings for the touchpad?

If it helps, my personal laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 300.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

If I recall correctly it might have been a libinput update? I'm sure the
developer will answer soon. Trish I assume you've rebooted?

On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 7:01 PM Trish1274 <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Actually, I just tried plugging in my office wireless mouse into the
> personal laptop, and the buttons work fine on that. So it's JUST the
> buttons with the track pad. In every previous version of Ubuntu I've
> used, I've always just changed the touchpad buttons through GCC under
> the mouse settings. Is there another way to change settings for the
> touchpad?
>
> If it helps, my personal laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 300.
>
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> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button to Right (left-handed) in Settings
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-libinput package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

Stephen, yes, I've rebooted. That was the first thing I tried. Hoping a fix is issued very soon. I'm sure this would be considered a critical bug if it affect right-handed people. Sigh--being a lefty is such a pain.

[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

For now, I'm just going to boot the 4.13 kernel.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

It was fixed some time ago before 18.04 was released. Do you have all repos activated, including /contrib & /universe?

[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

I didn't have this problem before I upgraded to 18.04, though. In fact, I've never had this problem with any release since I started using Ubuntu with 8.04 years ago. It was literally right after I upgraded and restarted my machine that the problem appeared--it didn't appear before the restart that was required to finish the upgrade. So I'd assume it's something within the updgrade.

I couldn't tell you about the repos being activated, because I frankly don't know what those are. I don't know much of the under-the-hood of Ubuntu yet.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Trish, run this in a terminal as one line:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed

What does it return? True or false?

[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

True

[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

OK, this is bizarre. For most of the afternoon, I was running in the 14.3 kernel instead of the new because I was doing an online class that required a lot of clicking. I finished the class and then came here to see if there were new messages. So, I ran 'gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed' in the terminal, and it returned true.

But then I remembered I was still in the old kernel, so I restarted my laptop and booted the new kernel. Now, I've already done this a couple of times today, and nothing has changed with the buttons. But when I booted the new kernel just now, the problem appears to have resolved itself, and my right button is actually primary as I had set it to be.

So, the problem is somehow resolved, but I'm curious as to how booting one kernel and then another seems to have made the difference. I haven't run any updates or anything.

Happy, but curious/confused.

[Trish1274 (pldiewald)]

Make that 4.13 kernel. Can't type today.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

Well it's fixed, that's the important thing.

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 9:30 PM Trish1274 <email address hidden> wrote:

> Make that 4.13 kernel. Can't type today.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758306
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> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button to Right (left-handed) in Settings
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-libinput package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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[Leoncio de Queiroz Maya (leonciomaya)]

It is not fixed for me. It should work straightaway. How many people in the world is not suffering from this? How can Canonical's staff have not fixed it yet? I am missing Xenial Xerius and regret I've installed Bionic Beaver.

[Leoncio de Queiroz Maya (leonciomaya)]

"Changed in xserver-xorg-input-libinput (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid"

Greek! That is greek to me. Very hermetic. The bug has not been patched yet.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

it was not a driver bug

[Cas (calumlind)]

@leonciomaya

This issue was definitely fixed so you there is likely something else going on with your system. Here are some suggestions:

Check all updates are installed? Try proposed updates?
Is this with mouse or trackpad?
Have you checked what gsettings is reporting?

    gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed

Perhaps try a booting with a livecd ubuntu and test mouse there.

I will also say that it can be assumed that everyone including the OP consider this specific issue fixed (I am muting this bug). Therefore you will need to open a new launchpad bug. You can also use the ubuntu forums or IRC for direct help with diagnosing the issue.

[Leoncio de Queiroz Maya (leonciomaya)]

Thank you Cas.
Let me answer to your suggestions.

Check all updates are installed? Try proposed updates?
I always install all updates.

Is this with mouse or trackpad?
I only use the trackpad.

Have you checked what gsettings is reporting?

    gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed
    true

Perhaps try a booting with a livecd ubuntu and test mouse there. I don't have a CD with Ubuntu 18.04.

I started using Ubuntu with version 12.04 and I have updated it to versions 14.04 and 16.04. The left-handed mode always worked fine. A couple of weeks ago, I was offered to install version 18.04. The bug started after the installation of this new version. I must say it is very annoying.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

I found that in my situation it was the upgrade not working good with some
config settings in my ~/home. When I was beta testing, I don't think the
Ubuntu developers considered that many problems are associated with
upgrades. Once I did a clean install, this situation was gone.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 8:35 PM Leoncio de Queiroz Maya <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Thank you Cas.
> Let me answer to your suggestions.
>
> Check all updates are installed? Try proposed updates?
> I always install all updates.
>
> Is this with mouse or trackpad?
> I only use the trackpad.
>
> Have you checked what gsettings is reporting?
>
> gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse left-handed
> true
>
> Perhaps try a booting with a livecd ubuntu and test mouse there. I don't
> have a CD with Ubuntu 18.04.
>
> I started using Ubuntu with version 12.04 and I have updated it to
> versions 14.04 and 16.04. The left-handed mode always worked fine. A
> couple of weeks ago, I was offered to install version 18.04. The bug
> started after the installation of this new version. I must say it is
> very annoying.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758306
>
> Title:
> Cannot switch mouse primary button to Right (left-handed) in Settings
>
> Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in xserver-xorg-input-libinput package in Ubuntu:
> Invalid
>
> Bug description:
> Prior to yesterday's (March 22/18) Bionic update, I had my mouse
> configured for left handed use. That is the mouse primary button being
> switched to the right. GCC doesn't seem to work for this now. I don't know
> if it's related to evdev or what.
> Held back reporting this in case it was fixed by changes overnight.
> Updated this morning and problem persists.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.28.0-0ubuntu3
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu
> 4.13.0-36201803011620.0+mediatree+hauppauge-generic 4.13.13
> Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36201803011620-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.8-0ubuntu10
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Fri Mar 23 07:07:02 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-19 (62 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170920)
> SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1758306/+subscriptions
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[Oleksiy Gorelov (grolm)]

It is fixed for me after I cleaned old package sources in Synaptic and updated:

Commit Log for Tue Sep 18 22:36:57 2018

Following packages was removed:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly-amr
xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse

Following packages was updated:
gstreamer1.0-plugins-good (1.8.3-1ubuntu0.4) to 1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1
gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly (1.8.3-1ubuntu0.1) to 1.14.1-1~ubuntu18.04.1
libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0 (1.8.3-1ubuntu0.4) to 1.14.1-1ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1
xserver-xorg-core (2:1.18.4-0ubuntu0.8) to 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
xserver-xorg-input-all (1:7.7+13ubuntu3.1) to 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
xserver-xorg-input-evdev (1:2.10.1-1ubuntu2) to 1:2.10.5-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (1.8.2-1ubuntu3) to 1.9.0-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-input-wacom (1:0.32.0-0ubuntu3) to 1:0.36.1-0ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu (1.1.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) to 18.0.1-1
xserver-xorg-video-ati (1:7.7.0-1) to 1:18.0.1-1
xserver-xorg-video-fbdev (1:0.4.4-1build5) to 1:0.4.4-1build6
xserver-xorg-video-intel (2:2.99.917+git20160325-1ubuntu1.2) to 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (1:1.0.12-1build2) to 1:1.0.15-2
xserver-xorg-video-qxl (0.1.4-3ubuntu3) to 0.1.5-2build1
xserver-xorg-video-radeon (1:7.7.0-1) to 1:18.0.1-1
xserver-xorg-video-vesa (1:2.3.4-1build2) to 1:2.3.4-1build3
xserver-xorg-video-vmware (1:13.1.0-2ubuntu3) to 1:13.2.1-1build1

Following packages was installed:
xserver-xorg-input-libinput (0.27.1-1)