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sir_herrbatka
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left handed mouse and mouse gestures

Thu Jul 04, 2013 12:07 pm
hi,

currently my right hand is disabled so i configured my mouse buttons to be left handed. and i see a problem.

i use mouse gestures with left (3) mouse buttons. gestures itself works with left handed mouse but if they are enabled i can't quite use my 3 mouse button in application window for instance to get context menu in dolphin. if i disable mouse gestures everything goes back to normal.

can someone confirm this issue for me?
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Hmm. I gather context menu clicking (normally right click, but I guess it is left click in your case) is not working?
Does reconfiguring the mouse gestures help here?


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yes, excatly. sorry for confusing post.

swaped buttons and gestures = problem. it simply prohibits using button configured for mouse gestures for standard application tasks like invoking context menu in dolphin or rekonq. at least for me :(
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Can you please run "kdebugdialog" and enable all areas, then tail the file ~/.xsession-errors and see what is output when you attempt to trigger a gesture?


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sure, as i said before gestures itself works.

kded(3162)/khotkeys KHotKeys::Gesture::update_grab: Enabled: true
kded(3162)/khotkeys KHotKeys::Gesture::update_grab: Handler: 0
kded(3162)/khotkeys KHotKeys::Gesture::update_grab: Exclude: 0x0 Match? false
kded(3162)/khotkeys KHotKeys::Gesture::grab_mouse: false
kded(3162)/khotkeys KHotKeys::Gesture::grab_mouse: Gesture ungrab

i'm using 3 mouse button. typicaly this is rmb but in my case left since i swaped 1 and 3 button.

ps interesting; i can get rmb working if i will hold it pressed for a moment, and clicky normaly after that.

pps i setted lower time limit (100 ms vs 500 ms) and it almost work. in rekonq i have to use double rmb to get context menu and a double lmb outside of it area to hide it. in dolphin it takes single click to show menu and double to hide.
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oh, i just turned gestures off. i can only hope this can be fixed in the future. :<
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Can you please file a bug report about this at bugs.kde.org? This will make the developer(s) of the gestures component aware of this.


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i will after getting my right hand back to normal
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Same problem here. I can't switch mouse buttons and use mouse shortcuts together.

Has this bug been reported ?


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