Left-handed mouser

[David Bussenschutt]

Amen Brother!

Let's all us lefties take over the world!

David.
P.S. In case you're wondering, I'm seconding his opinion.

At 13:57 29/09/98 -0500, Tom Barraza wrote:
>First of all, hats off to all involved in the VNC product line.
>I am quite impressed, and that doesn't happen often!
>This is one of the few applications I have seen that makes
>a computer worth using - even for those out there who don't
>know they need it yet!
>
>I am one of those few (probably less than 10 percent of the
>computing population) who happens to be left-handed.  I have
>switched the left and right mouse buttons on all my accounts
>on all machines I use at work and home: NT workstation, Linux,
>Solaris, Windoze 98, etc.
>(xmodmap -e "pointer 3 2 1" in X-windows)
>
>The VNC Viewer doesn't appear to support swapping buttons 1 and 3,
>only buttons 2 and 3.  I've read an earlier thread in the mailing
>list that discussed making the remote machine setup to use the
>"default" right handed configuration, and only using the local
>machine (running VNC viewer) have the swapped mouse buttons.  This
>works, but it's not ideal (a little trip to the control panel &
>mouse tabs are required to set the mouse to right-handed mode
>for that session of Windows NT, which must be undone if I want
>to physically sit at the remote machine later.)
>
>I've created a shortcut to the mouse setup in the control panel
>on my desktop to minimize the changes that must be done to accomplish
>the button swap (anyone know how to do this with commands in a batch
>file?), but it would be very nice if I could set this up in the
>options tab of the VNC Viewer in the future.  In my opinion, the
>less configuration that must be done on the remote computer, the
>better (more configuration shifted to the locally running VNC
>Viewer, instead).
>
>If anyone has found a way to accomplish the button swap (without
>doing so in the Control panel on the remote machine), please let
>me know, otherwise, I would like to request this as one very important
>addition to a future version.
>
>Sincerely,
>Tom Barraza
>
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