#155 left handed mouse (cont.)

[steelman]

Since I have some windows machines with right-haned mice and the linux box on my desk is has a left-handed mouse the button remapping introduced recently is quite distracting for me. I have a patch that "fixes" this for me. It simple turns of the remapping.

Howerver, I think the most reasonable approach in the future would be to introduce some more advanced remapping scheme in rdesktop.

[steelman]

turn of the button remapping

[Fred New]

I have an updated version of the earlier "-l" mouse button, but I'm willing to try using -M. I would suggest an update to the man page as part of your patch. For the -l patch I have

diff -uNr rdesktop-1.6.0/doc/rdesktop.1 rdesktop-1.6.0a/doc/rdesktop.1
--- rdesktop-1.6.0/doc/rdesktop.1 2007-01-19 15:47:35.000000000 +0200
+++ rdesktop-1.6.0a/doc/rdesktop.1 2008-05-19 14:27:50.000000000 +0300
@@ -98,6 +98,10 @@
Disable encryption from client to server. This sends an encrypted login packet,
but everything after this is unencrypted (including interactive logins).
.TP
+.BR "-l"
+Switch mouse buttons. Useful if you have configured a left-handed mouse on
+the remote system and your local desktop has a right-handed mouse.
+.TP
.BR "-m"
Do not send mouse motion events. This saves bandwidth, although some Windows
applications may rely on receiving mouse motion.

[Mikel Ward]

Ping.

[Burkhard Vogel-Kreykenbohm]

Any chance that this patch will make it into 1.6.1 or 1.7 or whatever may be the next version - I find it highly useful being left handed as well....

[Mikel Ward]

Any update?

[Anonymous]

It would be great to get left handed support. It is confusing experience when (at home) I can finally use a left handed setup and then click on RDP session and it switches to right-handed.

[Kevin Lucas]

Add my vote for inclusion of this patch in the next version. I always compile this into rdesktop.

[Kevin Lucas]

I still love this patch. Thanks stlman!