Re: left handed mouse problem

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Hartshorn <peter.hartshorn@tuxia.com> writes:

  > The problem is that the two settings (X and Windows) are cancelling each other
  > out. Either remove the settings from XModmap (not acceptable) or set the
  > mouse pointer to right handed.

Which is not good either, as I would have to change the setting when I
am at the console of the windows machine....

As a note: Citrix gets this situation right. 



  >  
  > On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:53:11PM -0800, Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
  > > Hi! 
  > > 
  > > First of all I wan to say that I have just discovered rdesktop and I
  > > am really impressed! It works really well for me on sparc-solaris.
  > > Great work! 
  > > 
  > > The only problem that I have is that the mouse buttons are not mapped
  > > correctly for me. 
  > > I use the mouse with the left hand. 
  > > So on my SUN machine I have 
  > > 
  > > pointer = 3 2 1
  > > 
  > > in my ~/.Xmodmap
  > > 
  > > and in windows I set the mouse to be left handed. 
  > > 
  > > But when I use rdesktop to access a remote windows machine the buttons
  > > are inverted. 
  > > 
  > > This is with rdesktop Version 1.1.0-pl19-8-3
  > > 
  > > Any idea how to fix this? 
  > > 
  > > 
  > > Thanks.
  > >         --dan
  > 
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