Hi,
running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard.
I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right handed.
In GNOME settings I cannot change it per mouse, rather for all of the at the same time.
I read that this is a libinput matter, but I cannot find how to do it.
Any suggestions?
Andrea
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:28:03 +0100 andrea wrote:
Any suggestions?
As near as I can tell Wayland was foisted off on everyone without providing most of the user level control you formerly had with X11, so step one is probably to stop using Wayland.
Then you'll probably be able to use the xinput command line tool to set different mice differently (if you can identify which mouse is which).
There is some chance that xinput might work even with Wayland, so you could give that a try and see if something like "xinput list" will show two mice, if not you need to stop using wayland or wait 10 years till some programmer who works on wayland needs the same feature, then it will suddenly become high priority.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:44:07PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
As near as I can tell Wayland was foisted off on everyone without providing most of the user level control you
Tom, this attitude like "foisted off" and similar (from other recent messages) really isn't welcome on this list. Please review the Code of Conduct:
https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct
Wayland isn't perfect, but it's worked on by actual human beings, and Fedora as a project made a decision to help get that work in front of other human beings so that it can be improved.
On 06/06/2017 12:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:44:07PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
As near as I can tell Wayland was foisted off on everyone without providing most of the user level control you
Tom, this attitude like "foisted off" and similar (from other recent messages) really isn't welcome on this list.
It's the same attitude I've seen here lo, these many years, about both systemd and SELinux, and for the most part, nobody objects. Is there a rule now, for this list, about expressing opinions?
On 06/06/2017 12:58 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/06/2017 12:20 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:44:07PM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
As near as I can tell Wayland was foisted off on everyone without providing most of the user level control you
Tom, this attitude like "foisted off" and similar (from other recent messages) really isn't welcome on this list.
It's the same attitude I've seen here lo, these many years, about both systemd and SELinux, and for the most part, nobody objects. Is there a rule now, for this list, about expressing opinions?
People do object. Sometimes if it's just a one-off comment, it is just ignored or "it's just him again". But it really does make the discussion unpleasant. If you don't have a helpful comment, then just don't comment. If you can provide something helpful, then do so, but without the negative put-downs. Maybe you don't like the particular software under discussion, but many people do. And in the case of Wayland, pulseaudio, systemd, etc., enough people liked it that they switched the distribution over to using it.
(Note that "you" here is a general term, not referring to Joe.)
On 06/06/2017 01:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
If you don't have a helpful comment, then just don't comment.
That's my attitude as well. However, not everybody follows that practice and on the whole the list just regards it as blowing off steam and ignores it. What I don't understand is, why is Wayland immune to that kind of comment?
On 06/06/2017 01:19 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 06/06/2017 01:04 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
If you don't have a helpful comment, then just don't comment.
That's my attitude as well. However, not everybody follows that practice and on the whole the list just regards it as blowing off steam and ignores it. What I don't understand is, why is Wayland immune to that kind of comment?
I can't speak for Matthew, but it's likely that it was a thread he happened to be reading and so he noticed it. I really doubt that it's specific to Wayland and I have seen similar notices on other topics as well, although those might have been on the devel list.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 02:25:33PM -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
That's my attitude as well. However, not everybody follows that practice and on the whole the list just regards it as blowing off steam and ignores it. What I don't understand is, why is Wayland immune to that kind of comment?
I can't speak for Matthew, but it's likely that it was a thread he happened to be reading and so he noticed it. I really doubt that it's specific to Wayland and I have seen similar notices on other topics as well, although those might have been on the devel list.
Yes, this. :)
It is not at all specific to Wayland.
On 06/06/2017 11:28 AM, andrea wrote:
running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard.
I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right handed.
In GNOME settings I cannot change it per mouse, rather for all of the at the same time.
That is a rather unusual use case. I've never seen a configuration tool that could handle that.
I read that this is a libinput matter, but I cannot find how to do it.
For Wayland (and possible X, depending on configuration), libinput handles the input devices. On Wayland, the only way to change that configuration is to use the desktop provided tools or write your own. I suspect it would be a very simple program with very few lines if you went that way. If you switch back to X, you can use xinput to change it for the session or an xorg.conf.d snippet to change it always. It might be possible to use a udev config to switch it for both Wayland and Xorg, but I don't know for sure.
On 06/06/17 20:17, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 06/06/2017 11:28 AM, andrea wrote:
running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard.
I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right handed.
In GNOME settings I cannot change it per mouse, rather for all of the at the same time.
That is a rather unusual use case. I've never seen a configuration tool that could handle that.
I read that this is a libinput matter, but I cannot find how to do it.
For Wayland (and possible X, depending on configuration), libinput handles the input devices. On Wayland, the only way to change that configuration is to use the desktop provided tools or write your own. I suspect it would be a very simple program with very few lines if you went that way. If you switch back to X, you can use xinput to change it for the session or an xorg.conf.d snippet to change it always. It might be possible to use a udev config to switch it for both Wayland and Xorg, but I don't know for sure.
This is what xinput shows, rather uninformative and even with --long I have no way to link any of them to something I recognize (e.g. no brand name etc.)
andrea@localhost:~$ xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ xwayland-pointer:13 id=6 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:13 id=7 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ xwayland-keyboard:13 id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
tried xinput get-button-map and the ones that show something show all an unaltered map
andrea@localhost:~$ xinput get-button-map 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
even if I currently have left-handed mouse, so clearly GNOME is not using this method to swap them all.
Does anybody know how GNOME handles it?
I find so unnatural to use a left handed mouse with the right and the other way round.
I could write a uinput handler and present a new virtual device where I swap button clicks and pass everything else unaltered, but there must be already one out there.
Andrea
On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 19:52:51 +0100 andrea wrote:
andrea@localhost:~$ xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ xwayland-pointer:13 id=6 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ xwayland-relative-pointer:13 id=7 [slave pointer (2)] ⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)] ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)] ↳ xwayland-keyboard:13 id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
tried xinput get-button-map and the ones that show something show all an unaltered map
andrea@localhost:~$ xinput get-button-map 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
id 4 is the virtual pointer for the XTEST extension and isn't a actual mouse. Try id 6 instead of 4. I suspect that represents the real mice which wayland has mushed together into a single mouse. Here's what I get when I plug in my 2nd mouse while not using wayland:
zooty> xinput --list ⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)] ⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse id=8 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Logitech Logitech Illuminated Keyboard id=10 [slave pointer (2)] ⎜ ↳ Kensington Kensington Expert Mouse id=13 [slave pointer (2)]
I do see two real mice show up, id 8 and id 13. (I have no idea what part of my keyboard it thinks is a pointer, so ignore that :-).
Looks like you'll have to not use wayland if you want to remap buttons in just one mouse. (Unless there is some super secret way to burrow under the layers xinput can see).
The challenge might be in determining the ID numbers to use since they'll probably vary at random, especially if you plug and unplug the mice.
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:28:03 +0100 andrea mariofutire@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard.
I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right handed.
I can't answer your question, but I also use two input devices, one on the left and one on the right. And rather than always worry that an update was going to mess up my configuration, I just learned to use a mouse with my left hand in mirror fashion. That is, the ring finger does button 1, and the pointer finger does button 3. It took a week or so, but now I don't even think about it. My left hand had no muscle memory like my right hand, so it was just a matter of learning as if that was the right way.
This also means that I can use someone's right hand mouse at his / her computer with my left hand if I want, if we are working together on something.
On 06/06/2017 03:01 PM, stan wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:28:03 +0100 andrea mariofutire@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard.
I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right handed.
I can't answer your question, but I also use two input devices, one on the left and one on the right. And rather than always worry that an update was going to mess up my configuration, I just learned to use a mouse with my left hand in mirror fashion. That is, the ring finger does button 1, and the pointer finger does button 3. It took a week or so, but now I don't even think about it. My left hand had no muscle memory like my right hand, so it was just a matter of learning as if that was the right way.
This also means that I can use someone's right hand mouse at his / her computer with my left hand if I want, if we are working together on something. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@lists.fedoraproject.org
One other idea: The mouse buttons are switches, of course. If you can get at the switch connections, you could cross-wire them. No software modifications at all.
--doug
On 06/06/2017 03:11 PM, Doug wrote:
On 06/06/2017 03:01 PM, stan wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 19:28:03 +0100 andrea mariofutire@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
running F25 GNOME on Wayland and have 2 mice. One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard.
I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right handed.
I can't answer your question, but I also use two input devices, one on the left and one on the right. And rather than always worry that an update was going to mess up my configuration, I just learned to use a mouse with my left hand in mirror fashion. That is, the ring finger does button 1, and the pointer finger does button 3. It took a week or so, but now I don't even think about it. My left hand had no muscle memory like my right hand, so it was just a matter of learning as if that was the right way.
This also means that I can use someone's right hand mouse at his / her computer with my left hand if I want, if we are working together on something.
One other idea: The mouse buttons are switches, of course. If you can get at the switch connections, you could cross-wire them. No software modifications at all.
Wait, isn't that the same philosophy that IBM had for their floppy drives where they couldn't be bothered to put the correct drive select jumpers in, wired them all up so drive select 1 was active and required you to split and put a weird twist in the ribbon cable for the first drive? Have we learned nothing in the 40+ years since?
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On 2017-06-06 15:20, Rick Stevens wrote:
Wait, isn't that the same philosophy that IBM had for their floppy drives where they couldn't be bothered to put the correct drive select jumpers in, wired them all up so drive select 1 was active and required you to split and put a weird twist in the ribbon cable for the first drive? Have we learned nothing in the 40+ years since?
Aw, what the hell? Dig out your soldering irons and jewelers' screwdrivers! I'm in!
Off hand I suspect it beats whining about it until it's "fixed".
{^_-}
Thanx, JoAnne! --doug
On 06/06/2017 05:24 PM, jdow wrote:
On 2017-06-06 15:20, Rick Stevens wrote:
Wait, isn't that the same philosophy that IBM had for their floppy drives where they couldn't be bothered to put the correct drive select jumpers in, wired them all up so drive select 1 was active and required you to split and put a weird twist in the ribbon cable for the first drive? Have we learned nothing in the 40+ years since?
Aw, what the hell? Dig out your soldering irons and jewelers' screwdrivers! I'm in!
Off hand I suspect it beats whining about it until it's "fixed".
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One on the left and one on the right of the keyboard.
I would like to set the left as left handed and the right as right handed.
I dare say that it's probably easier to use a mouse that's designed to be left-handed (i.e. one that's wired up that way). You'll never have to specially configure a computer to suit it. And it'd be more comfortable in your hand, unless it was symmetrical to start with (the mouse, not your hand).
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