Re: Mouse button swapping

[Clemens Koller <clemens.koller@anagramm.de>]

Hello, Jan!

> I produced a small patch that allows one to flip the mouse buttons at the 
> kernel level. This is useful for changing it on a per-system basis, i.e. it 
> will affect gpm, X and VMware all at once. It is changeable through
> /sys/module/mousedev/swap_buttons at runtime. Is this something mainline would
> be interested in?

Jup, sounds interesting. Maybe it would be fine to add some more documentation,
otherwise the feature might get lost in space.
I also can imagine to have free button-mapping somewhere... for multi-button
mices, configurable from right to left-handed use on the fly.

Greets,
-- 
Clemens Koller
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