change to left-handed mouse orientation has no effect.

Bug #484781 reported by Tiger!P
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Xfce4 Settings
In Progress
Unknown
xfce4-settings (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xfce4-settings

Package xfce4-settings

When running xfce4-mouse-settings and changing the Button Order from Right handed to Left handed, is does not work.
See also http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5004

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
$

$ apt-cache policy xfce4-settings
xfce4-settings:
  Installed: 4.6.3-1ubuntu1
  Candidate: 4.6.3-1ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 4.6.3-1ubuntu1 0
        500 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
$

I would expect that the mouse buttons would change when the "Left handed" is chosen.

Maybe http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267388 could also contain some useful information.

Tiger!P

Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

This bug is still valid in Lucid Lynx. Using Accessibility to change mouse buttons does not work.

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subliminalfix (subliminalfix) wrote :

unable to assign for a patch/fix.major issue affecting users and output .should not be a problem this late in the game.

can someone please set the importance as well. thanks

Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in xfce4-settings:
status: Unknown → In Progress
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Lionel Le Folgoc (mrpouit) wrote :

It seems to work in precise at the moment.

Changed in xfce4-settings (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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phil janes (jason-midas) wrote :

Does not work for me in 12.04.1 LTS and I have tried several ways of getting it to work. Stuck with a computer I cannot use!

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Tiger!P (ubuntu-tigerp) wrote :

It works for 12.10 (quantal).

@ phil janes:
To manually change the mouse to be left-handed you can use the following:
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1'

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