Re: Mouse button swapping

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 01:08:12 EST


On Friday 09 December 2005 09:10, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> 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?

I am not sure if this should be done in kernel. It will also not work for mouse
drivers using event interface (which hopefully will be default someday) instead
of legacy mousedev interface.

--
Dmitry
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