Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751228AbVLLLIG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:08:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751229AbVLLLIG (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:08:06 -0500 Received: from moutvdom.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.249]:57320 "EHLO moutvdomng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751228AbVLLLIE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Dec 2005 06:08:04 -0500 Message-ID: <439D5A11.3070008@anagramm.de> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 12:08:01 +0100 From: Clemens Koller User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Mouse button swapping References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1061 Lines: 31 Hello, Jan! > I produced a small patch that allows one to flip the mouse buttons at the > kernel level. This is useful for changing it on a per-system basis, i.e. it > will affect gpm, X and VMware all at once. It is changeable through > /sys/module/mousedev/swap_buttons at runtime. Is this something mainline would > be interested in? Jup, sounds interesting. Maybe it would be fine to add some more documentation, otherwise the feature might get lost in space. I also can imagine to have free button-mapping somewhere... for multi-button mices, configurable from right to left-handed use on the fly. Greets, -- Clemens Koller _______________________________ R&D Imaging Devices Anagramm GmbH Rupert-Mayer-Str. 45/1 81379 Muenchen Germany http://www.anagramm.de Phone: +49-89-741518-50 Fax: +49-89-741518-19 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/