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- From: mats@netcom.com (Mats Wichmann)
- Subject: Re: Left handed users and X-windows
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.060335.18342@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <BzBL0H.4Ao@ucunix.san.uc.edu> <1992Dec18.013228.15260@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 06:03:35 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- brenner@ucunix.san.uc.edu (David L. Brenner) writes:
-
- > I am using X11 release 5 on a Sun workstation and have a number of
- > users that are left handed.
-
- > Is there any way to change the configuration of the mouse to allow
- > for left-handed people to use the mouse in this fashion?
-
- mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse) replies:
-
- >I assume you want to reverse the order of the buttons, so that button 1
- >is still under the index finger.
-
- >This is almost an RTFM question, except that it's not a priori obvious
- >which TFM to R. You want xmodmap(1); here's a snippet from our copy:
-
- >EXAMPLES
- > Many pointers are designed such that the first button is
- > pressed using the index finger of the right hand. People
- > who are left-handed frequently find that it is more comfort-
- > able to reverse the button codes that get generated so that
- > the primary button is pressed using the index finger of the
- > left hand. This could be done on a 3 button pointer as fol-
- > lows:
-
- > % xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
-
- >Note that there is no simple single command you can give xmodmap that
- >will do this regardless of the number of buttons on the pointer, though
- >xmodmap -pp and a small awk script could do it easily enough.
-
-
- I've got to add that I'm left-handed and gave up on using the mouse
- on the left because a bunch of stuff has to be done with mouse button
- plus something else - and as long as most keyboards have control and
- alt only on the left side, well, it becomes an interesting job of
- contortion...
- --
- Mats Wichmann
- Unisoft Corporation
- mats@unisoft.com (or mats@netcom.com)
-
- Silly Disclaimer: speaking only for myself, except when I'm not.
-