Re: Another question... (of mice and X)

[Barrie Bremner <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Craig Andrews wrote:
> 
> > I'm left handed, have my mouse over on the 'right' side, but I use the
> > buttons as per normal.  Oddly enough the rest of my family, who are all
> > right handed, use the mouse over on that side too... probably because when
> > they first sat down at the family computer it was already over there and so
> > they just got used to it that way...
> >
>  A friend of mine has the mouse on the left hand side, with the buttons
> mapped to right handed use. He then just uses his index finger to press
> all the buttons. Ahh, the ingenuity of the human race is mind-boggling ;o)
> 

 I was gonna say, it seems a bit un-natural to swap the buttons around,
regardless of what side the mouse is on.
 I`m used to swapping the mouse around, depending on what I`m doing,
without going to the bother of remapping buttons.
 Then again, I`m lazy...I`d rather tell my brain to use different
fingers, than to rummage about it config files :)

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