[ted_uk]

Dear All,
I am a newbie to Bodhi and Enlightenment. The setting for the mouse hand in 1.2.1 is broken, and does not do anything. Is there any way to configure Enlightenment manually to use the mouse with the left hand?
Best wishes,
Ted

[KlingKlangMan]

I use my left hand for the mouse, but I've always kept the buttons as standard (primary click=left, secondary=right). I've been told that I'm weird, though

[ted_uk]

KlingKlangMan, on 09 November 2011 - 09:59 PM, said:

I use my left hand for the mouse, but I've always kept the buttons as standard (primary click=left, secondary=right). I've been told that I'm weird, though

Dear KlingKlangMan,
I think that I may be forced to do what your doing, but it's going to take a long time to reverse the habits of twenty years!
Best wishes,
Ted

[KlingKlangMan]

I hope someone else on here can be more help, Ted.

[hippytaff]

Hi Ted-UK

Have you tried going to Settings -> Settings Panel -> input -> mouse, and changing the hand (to left handed)

Cheers
Hippytaff

[ted_uk]

hippytaff, on 09 November 2011 - 10:36 PM, said:

Hi Ted-UK

Have you tried going to Settings -> Settings Panel -> input -> mouse, and changing the hand (to left handed)

Cheers
Hippytaff

Dear Hippytaff,
many thanks for your reply. Yes, I have tried that, and it does nothing. Have you got it to work?
Best wishes,
Ted

[Duma]

mine don't change nothing. maybe could be notified by E developer?

[hippytaff]

No i havent tried it. Will when i get back to my machine. If someone else can confirm in tje mean time that it doesnt work...cool

[Hendra]

Give it a try. Nope, not working.

I found a way using script.

open leafpad, paste following lines

#!/bin/bash
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1";

save it in your home folder as left_handed_mouse.sh

now open terminal, run followind command

chmod +x ./left_handed_mouse.sh

test it by running in terminal

./left_handed_mouse.sh

if it swap your mouse, you're good

if you want it, you can add this script at startup.
If you want to return it to right handed, change

#!/bin/bash
xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1";

to

#!/bin/bash
xmodmap -e "pointer = 1 2 3";

good luck

[hippytaff]

Nice script hendre. Tou could add the line to the exec part of a deskrop file and have that run at startup

[Hendra]

Now that's my problem hippytaff. I don't have firm linux basic.
That script is something I found when googling. I thought I would need it later.

If I'm running Ubuntu, I would copy this script to /etc/init.d
by running

sudo cp ./left_handed_mouse.sh /etc/init.d

and it will be called on startup

I wonder if this method works with Bodhi,
since when someone asked about startup, no one answer it this way

[hippytaff]

Duma

This is how I would do it. You can either get exec in the desktop file to point at your sctipt, or just add the commands to the exec: bit.

Cheers
Hippytaff

[Duma]

hippytaff, on 10 November 2011 - 09:38 AM, said:

Duma

This is how I would do it. You can either get exec in the desktop file to point at your sctipt, or just add the commands to the exec: bit.

Cheers
Hippytaff

Yes is possible, but why you tell me?

[hippytaff]

Duma, on 10 November 2011 - 09:45 AM, said:

Yes is possible, but why you tell me?

Sorry. Was meant for hendre >•<

[Duma]

no problem

[Hendra]

BTW I have question

Do startup application entry run before we login?
because if it don't and we don't use auto-login,
that means mouse will be in right-hand-mode at login screen right?

[Duma]

I think could be more "level" of autologin.

If you use Settings -> Applications -> Startup applications to load it, of course yes: in fact E17 manage this apps, so if you don't load it(and you don't load it until you make a login), app doesn't start.
Maybe using init.d or similar stuff you could have an application launched before the login, but i don't know.

[ted_uk]

Dear All,
many thanks for your helpful suggestions. I have been a bit tied-up for the last few days, and I have only just got round to posting.

The script that Hendra suggested works fine, and after execution, the mouse is now left handed.
It took me quite a while to find out how to add the script to the startup applications, but using the information provided by hippytaff at:-
"http://wiki.bodhilinux.com/doku.php?id=startup_commands&s[]=startup&s[]=script"
I created the file "~/left_handed_mouse.desktop" containing:-

"[Desktop Entry]
Name=left_handed_mouse
Comment=Sets the mouse as left handed
Exec=/home/ted/left_handed_mouse.sh
Icon=false
NoDisplay=false
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
StartupNotify=true"

copied it to /usr/share/applications

sudo cp left_handed_mouse.desktop /usr/share/applications

and changed the permissions

sudo chmod +x /usr/share/applications/left_handed_mouse.desktop

This works very well.
Thank you all for your kind help.
Ted

[Duma]

You're welcome and enjoy Bodhi!
Could you mark your topic solved if is solved?