On 11/16/09 01:08 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Seems more likely that no one else is hitting it - I just tested on
> OpenSolaris /dev build 127 and xev reports the button mappings change
> correctly when using the GNOME mouse preferences dialog to change left
> to right, but I'm testing on x86, as I don't have any SPARC boxes running
> current builds to check.
What should xev show? I tried it on SPARC sxce snv124 and I got
MappingNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
request MappingPointer, first_keycode 4, count 39
MappingNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
request MappingPointer, first_keycode 4, count 39
when alternating between left and right in the mouse preferences
dialog. The problem isn't that the preferences dialog doesn't
work, the problem is that the mouse stays right handed regardless
of either the gconf-editor or GNOME mouse preferences dialog
settings in 125 and later (including os127). Whatever is causing
this is common to sxce and Open Solaris and happens even with
a completely fresh install of snv125.
A separate but related issue is that the gconf-editor left handed
mouse setting is ignored on every release (at least since 124)
and it doesn't track the GNOME mouse preference (or vice versa)
as it does on Linux (well, Fedora C10, anyway).
Thanks -- Frank
