Public bug reported:
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Probably the Kernel
What I expected: I expected the right mouse button to be the primary
What happened instead: The primary button was the left button even
though the mouse configuration showed it to be the right button. Re-
selecting the right button is only a temporary work-a-round.
This problem is constant and quite annoying and only started happening on a
regular basis after I plugged in a USB game controller pad. It happened a few
times before that but only after a software update and restart. Fixing it
after a software update appeared to be permanent until the next update.
After having my Logitech game pad controller F310 plugged in it happens
constantly - even after just leaving the computer unattended for a while. If I
unplug the game pad the problem persists. Perhaps that will give some
developers a clue as to where the problem occurs. It may be a multilevel
software thing. If not, reading my RANT below might elicit a clue as to what
the software is doing wrong.
I have seen other situations where when accessing a desktop from a left
handed remote desktop, the buttons switch to right handed and after
remoting to a third desktop it switches back to left handed etc like it
is a toggle instead of a state. That is even more annoying if you need
to cut and paste over 3 levels of button switch. We need an RFC to fix
this in a standard way.
I believe this bug is in many levels of Ubuntu from at least 19.x to the
current 20.04.1 LTS based on what I have seen in the forums.
If I could actually use my right hand - without poking my eyes out - I
would definitely give up being left handed to avoid this issue. I do
however prefer the pad to stay right handed and changing the mouse
changes the pad in Ubuntu - they should be separately changeable.
Perhaps the gamepad toggles the left right button thing - since it is
set up as left handed as well.
This problem also happens in many game consoles where you can change
some things to left handed but not everything - in the software.
In the 80s, mice had a switch on the bottom - left/right. Now the
software determines right and left based on which user logs into the
system. You have to use the mouse to login. That means it starts off
right, then you login and then it switches to left. Incredibly stupid
but only left-handers get this.
I do however have a recommendation - to other left handers out there -
since it is what I am going to do from now on - make the solution
hardware.
"Skip the software left handed thing and buy a true left handed mouse
and controller or mod yours to switch". Don't rely on software for
something so basic and critical.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: left-handed mouse
** Attachment added: "Screenshot from 2021-01-08 22-44-39.png"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1910836/+attachment/5451145/+files/Screenshot%20from%202021-01-08%2022-44-39.png
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Left Handed Mouse configuration switching to "Right" on reconnect
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