Xfce 4.6 doesn't pay attention to the mouse setting that specifies it's supposed to be left handed. So, after the upgrade to xfce 4.6.x, the mouse is back to being right handed. Going into the settings manager, and changing the settings back to left handed doesn't work either. There is a bug in the xfce bug tracker regarding this, with a proposed patch: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5004 Haven't tried it though, instead using xmodmap as a workaround for now.
thx for researching. We probably won't use that patch unless upstream decide to commit it themselves too.
i don't know.. I guess this bug will remain stalled until xorg-server-1.6.* is marked stable on Gentoo. It would be nice if someone else could confirm that xorg-server-1.6* solves the issue.
(In reply to comment #2) >It would be nice if someone else could confirm that xorg-server-1.6* > solves the issue. > Confirmed solved with =xorg-server-1.6.3.901. For both evdev and synpatics drivers, and both "left-handed" and "inverse scroll wheel" options. x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4 x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901 x11-apps/xinput-1.4.2 x11-proto/inputproto-1.5.1 x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.4 x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics-1.1.3 I'll check later today if I still have a box running =xorg-server-1.6.3 running somewhere.
(In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > >It would be nice if someone else could confirm that xorg-server-1.6* > > solves the issue. > > > Confirmed solved with =xorg-server-1.6.3.901. For both evdev and synpatics > drivers, and both "left-handed" and "inverse scroll wheel" options. I've just marked it stable on amd64, and I suppose x86 and others will follow soon.. in bug 282290. So closing this as UPSTREAM.
