[wellylug] Swapping mouse buttons

[Grant McLean]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:24 +1300, Rob Stockley wrote:
> Rob Stockley wrote:
> 
> > Grant McLean wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know if it's possible to swap the buttons on pointer devices
> >> independently? 
> >>  
> >>
> > xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
> >
> Sorry. Now that I read your xf86config that should probably be:
> 
> xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5"
> 
> It should probably go in your Xsession script.

Hmm sadly that gives me the message:

xmodmap:  commandline:0:  bad number of buttons, must have 12 instead of
5

Which is presumably related to the fact that my primary pointing device
(as far as X is concerned) is the laptop's synaptic touchpad.  Whereas
the one I really want to change is my USB optical mouse.  Possibly by
the time it gets to xmodmap, they are both seen as a single pointing
device.

Cheers
Grant