Bug 167091

Summary:	Hotplug is not working correctly for lefthanded mouse (at least for usb mouse).
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	Mirek Mieszczak <mieszcz>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	finex, me, mikebwilliams, thorsten.schnebeck
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Mirek Mieszczak 2008-07-20 20:04:11 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.2.5 
OS:                Linux

In xorg-x11 v 7.2 there is hotplug function available, and it works well with kde, except one thing.

I personally use lefthanded mouse, so to remap mouse buttons kde uses xmodmap during initialization, and this leads into the problems.
When I plug the mouse after starting up of the kde, or if I replug the mouse when stay logged, or if I suspend system, and restore it to normal work, my mouse lose its button settings, and mouse become right handed mouse. This is really anonying.

I suppose that the same problem would occur for usb keyboards (but haven't tried).

Comment 1 Vladimir Kulev 2008-10-13 07:28:09 UTC

I also experience this bug with input hotplug, but for mouse speed settings. And my mouse loose its settings quite often, because it is bluetooth and X11 uses HAL.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2008-12-07 19:58:33 UTC

Is this a bug valid even for KDE 3.5.10 or KDE 4?

Comment 3 Thorsten Schnebeck 2009-03-25 09:42:19 UTC

I think this is valid for KDE 4.x

I'm also using a left-hand mouse setup. The set-up is done in "settings"
But the mouse is connectet to a monitor usb-hub. When I switch off the monitor (and its hub) but leave the KDE session still open and later switch it on again I get a right-hand mouse setup.

So I think, kded/solid should listen if an already configurered input device is unplugged and should reconfigure when its replugged again.

Bye

  Thorsten  


kde4-config --version
Qt: 4.4.3
KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1)
kde4-config: 1.0

Comment 4 Mike Williams 2009-07-12 17:53:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 182677 ***