[tjfitz]

I just installed Red Hat 7.3. I am left-handed, and use the mouse that way too. I know you can configure the mouse buttons for each user account in each environment (i.e. KBE, Gnome, etc.). What I want to know is if there is a way to swap the mouse buttons system-wide. In doing some research I discovered the XF86Config-4 file, so more specifically, what I was hoping for was how I could edit this file to get this result. Here is the pointer section of the file:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "yes"
EndSection

I guess there is some Option I can add in here to swap mouse buttons for the x-server. If you know another way to accomplish the same result, I would be happy to hear that too.

[pvc9]

Dont know for sure. But this link might help you -

SwappingMouseButtons

This is some of the content of that url -

Try xmodmap. That's the secret weapon...
In your ~/.Xmodmap file you just need the following 'pointer = 3 2 1'.
Or whichever way you want the buttons to map.

See if this helps...

[tjfitz]

I have to assume that ~/ means /, right? Well, there is no .Xmodmap file in /. There is a Xmodmap in /etc/X11/, but I don't know if it's the one. Every line had a ! in front of it. Is that a comment, like # ? I think maybe that site was referring to an older version of linux.

[pvc9]

Posted by tjfitz -

I have to assume that ~/ means /, right? Well, there is no .Xmodmap file in /. There is a Xmodmap in /etc/X11/, but I don't know if it's the one. Every line had a ! in front of it. Is that a comment, like # ? I think maybe that site was referring to an older version of linux.

Yes I know that it was for an earlier ver of Linux. May be it might work with the file that you've . Even the Redhat site doesnt provide any info on customization in the Errata
section.

Did you try to do it using the command 'mouse'?

Try with it and here is a link for RHL 7.2 Errata on Customization -

RHL Kickstart...

Some of the content is -

mouse

mouse (required)
Configures the mouse for the system, both in GUI and text modes.

Hope this helps...

[Gibble]

btw ~/ refers to your home directory. Using "cd ~" is the quick way to get there.

--Gibbs

[pvc9]

Thanks for the info Gibble.

Appreciate it

[codejockey]

A couple of minor additions:

The ~ (tilde) character actually refers to "the home directory of". If you don't specify a login ID, it defaults to yours (i.e., ~ is your home directory). You could, for example, refer to root's home directory as ~root, or codejockey's home directory as ~codejockey. You can also use the ~ character in a pathname such as ~codejockey/src/windoze/*.c

You can also return to your home directory simply by using the cd command with no arguments (i.e., cd will return you to your home directory from wherever you are).

Hope this helps.

[pvc9]

So there it is tjfitz. See if you can do the work from all these suggestions. Try it and get back.