Configurable Select, Menu, Adjust mouse button positions

Hi,

This has probably been asked many times and already done but I couldn’t find it.

Is it possible to change the positions of the Select, Menu and Adjust mouse buttons? (Other than re-wire the mouse)
Select – Adjust – Menu is a more intuitive order for most and left handed people might like to mirror Select to the right.

Br,
Jaco

Select – Adjust – Menu is a more intuitive order for most and left handed people might like to mirror Select to the right.

Interesting view – I’ve always thought *M*enu and *M*iddle made the most intuitive layout. Then again I’ve been using a three button mouse from a time point before Windows.

One of the mouse utilities may offer the left -right swap and remap. That said modifying the appropriate module to allow selectable swapping would be nice.

You want the KeyMapper module . I can verify that

*keymap 112 114
*keymap 114 112

*keymap 112 114
*keymap 114 112
swaps the action of the Select and Adjust mousebuttons on a an Rpi2 with RO5.23.)

Thanks! I’ll try that.

Interesting view – I’ve always thought *M*enu and *M*iddle made the most intuitive layout. Then again I’ve been using a three button mouse from a time point before Windows.

Well I said “for most” The middle menu button used to be the most intuitive for me too.
I guess it changed when I stopped using 3 fingers on the mouse to only two and since then my *M*enu finger is resting on another button.
Which indeed might have something to do with my near daily use of mentioned windows since the start of this millennium.

I would go as far as saying that Select-Adjust-Menu should be the default with the Pi version, as it has the highest proportion of new users. I’d also say that it should be exposed through Configure so that it can be toggled easily.

It’s better to swap the buttons “underneath” than to remap them using KeyMapper; although I haven’t tried it, I assume that it’s the software equivalent of physically swapping the buttons. However, you don’t necessarily always want them swapped. For example, some games have “hold left and right buttons to run”. KeyMapper would presumably change that to “hold left button and scroll wheel”, which would be less comfortable over extended periods.

Of course, here I go again with “all talk; no code” :(

Making it an option is one thing, but swapping the order by default means that all existing documentation will be wrong.
RISC OS is already somewhat different to other systems in our menu handling, don’t add further complications…

I’ll concede that one; I forgot about documentation.