Mouse choices

Christopher Beland beland at alum.mit.edu
Mon May 11 03:53:33 UTC 2009


OK, Lawrence, I'm assuming the following is true for you:

>>
I go to System -> Preferences -> Mouse from the Gnome menu.  On the
General tab, I select "Left-handed" under "Mouse Orientation" and hit
Close.  When I click on a desktop icon with the right mouse button, a
context menu appears, indicating the mouse is still set to
right-handed.  If I change the setting back to right-handed and then
to left-handed again, there is still no effect.
<<

That's the level of detail that package maintainers are looking for in a
bug report; there are a lot of different desktops and configurations and
whatnot that people use, and they need enough context to narrow down the
problem.

To ensure that the appropriate package maintainer sees your problem
report, the best thing to do is to file it at
http://bugzilla.redhat.com.  The first thing to do is to make sure a
problem has not already been reported, and as it happens a search
reveals your problem has already been reported here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487849

You can potentially help identify the source of the problem by sharing
information from your own system.  I would add something like the
following in a comment, assuming this is correct:

>>
I'm experiencing the same with being unable to set my mouse to
left-handed (no freeze up).  I have a Logitech wireless Keyboard and
mouse combo x710 USB.  In /etc/selinux/config, I have Selinux= enforcing
and Selinuxtype=targeted, but I don't see any error messages
in /var/log/messages or ~/.xsession-errors that look related to the
mouse problem.  I started experiencing this problem somewhere between
the F11 beta and preview releases.
<<

I would also attach the output of "lsusb"; do "yum install usbutils" to
install this program if you don't have it already.

If you have more time to put into diagnosing this, identifying the
last-good and first-bad RPMs with respect to this problem would probably
help the package maintainer out, unless someone shouts out otherwise.

I'm not an expert, but you could try reverting control-center,
xorg-x11-drv-mouse, and kernel with "rpm --oldpackage".  If you don't
have them handy, old versions are archived on
http://koji.fedoraproject.org (search in the upper right for the package
you need).  No doubt they have many dependencies you would also need to
track down; it might be easier to start over again with the beta release
and update packages piecemeal until the problem returns.

Alternatively, you can just wait until a developer asks for further help
diagnosing the issue.  If you add a comment to the above-mentioned bug,
you will get added to the cc: list (as long as that checkbox is also
selected when you submit your comment) and thus get an email whenever
there is an update to the bug.

FYI, if you have any other problems you would like to report, we hope
that:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs_and_feature_requests

is an adequate guide to help you find the information package
maintainers need to track them down, even for those just starting out
with Fedora.

Thanks for reporting this problem, and good luck!

--Beland




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