(Solved) antiX22 lost ability to do left hand mouse

[Member scruffyeagle]

Yesterday, I set up a new installation of antiX 22. The installation seemed to go without a hitch. However, when I returned to use it today, I found that the trackball mouse is refusing to operate in the left handed mode I set it for yesterday.

The dialog box is still showing that it’s in left hand mode, but the mouse buttons aren’t being switched.

This isn’t a physical problem with the mouse, because when I switched to antiX 19.4, the mouse worked perfectly (left handed) there.

The following is the output of inxi -Fxz, in antiX22, the 2nd day of usage, when the mouse refused to work in left handed mode. Note that the control in the mouse dialog box was showing that left handed usage was selected.
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$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 10.2.1 Desktop: IceWM v: 3.3.2 Distro: antiX-22_x64-full Grup Yorum 18
October 2022 base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Type: Portable System: Dell product: Latitude E6400 v: N/A
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 0U692R serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Dell v: A34
date: 06/04/2013
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 74.9 Wh (100.0%) condition: 74.9/76.4 Wh (98.1%)
volts: 12.3 min: 11.1 model: Panasonic DELL FU44196 status: full
CPU:
Info: dual core model: Intel Core2 Duo P8600 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Penryn
rev: A cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 3 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1935 high: 2205 min/max: 800/2401 boost: enabled cores:
1: 2205 2: 1665 bogomips: 9576
Flags: ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Mobile 4 Series Integrated Graphics vendor: Dell
driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-5 bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.11 driver: X: loaded: intel dri: i965
gpu: i915 resolution: 1280×800~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 2.1 Mesa 20.3.5 renderer: Mesa DRI Mobile Intel GM45
Express (CTG) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 82801I HD Audio vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Sound API: ALSA v: k5.10.142-antix.2-amd64-smp running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82567LM Gigabit Network vendor: Dell driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: efe0 bus-ID: 00:19.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel WiFi Link 5100 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: down mac: <filter>
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
v: 3.0 bus-ID: 00:1f.2
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.14 TiB used: 6.73 GiB (0.6%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: MK2561GSYN size: 232.89 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Western Digital
model: WD My Passport 0748 size: 931.48 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 34.31 GiB used: 6.73 GiB (19.6%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda7
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 9.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A sodimm: SODIMM C
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0
Info:
Processes: 149 Uptime: 13m Memory: 3.79 GiB used: 458.6 MiB (11.8%)
Init: SysVinit runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.1 Packages: 1882 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.4 inxi: 3.3.25
spirit@antix22:~
$
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Thanks in advance, for any help you can give in resolving this problem.

• This topic was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by christophe. Reason: marked Solved

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[Moderator caprea]

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If you scroll down in the mouse-conf on the bottom two things need to be checked.
There’s a green check mark which needs to be clicked and there’s the option to load the settings at system start.

Besides the GUI you can also look in
control-centre > Session > User Desktop Session > open Tab mouse.conf

Look for BUTTONORDER to look like this
#Button Order
#0 = right hand
#1 = left hand
BUTTONORDER=1

save and exit

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[Forum Admin Dave]

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As caprea stated; you likely need to enable the mouse configuration on startup option.
This sets the line (ds-mouse -all &) in the desktop-session startup file (~/.desktop-session/startup). Running the command ds-mouse -all in terminal would be a quick test if there is something wrong (there should then be an error output) or if it is just not enabled in startup (no error and your mouse would start working as expected).

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[Member scruffyeagle]

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caprea wrote:

If you scroll down in the mouse-conf on the bottom two things need to be checked.
There’s a green check mark which needs to be clicked and there’s the option to load the settings at system start.

Besides the GUI you can also look in
control-centre > Session > User Desktop Session > open Tab mouse.conf

Look for BUTTONORDER to look like this
#Button Order
#0 = right hand
#1 = left hand
BUTTONORDER=1

save and exit

I was able to find the green checkmark box, and the control for system startup, by maximizing the dialog box on the screen. (Maximizing brought the bottom border into view.)

I clicked the green checkmark box, and immediately the mouse switched to being left hand setup.
I clicked the system startup control, and got the message that the mouse setting would be adjusted during system startup.

Thank you for your help!

[Member scruffyeagle]

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Dave wrote:

As caprea stated; you likely need to enable the mouse configuration on startup option.
This sets the line (ds-mouse -all &) in the desktop-session startup file (~/.desktop-session/startup). Running the command ds-mouse -all in terminal would be a quick test if there is something wrong (there should then be an error output) or if it is just not enabled in startup (no error and your mouse would start working as expected).

Thank you for your reply!

I ran the command “ds-mouse -all” in the terminal, and there was no error message. So, I’m hopeful that upon the next boot, the mouse will be automatically set up as left handed.

(I’m going to go test it now…)

[Member scruffyeagle]

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caprea & Dave:

Thank you both for your assistance. Upon rebooting, the system set up the mouse for left handed usage automatically.

I wanted to mark this thread “solved”, but the forum wouldn’t let me edit the topic, and there wasn’t any link for me to take care of this myself – so, I’ll need assistance from an admin, to mark this thread as “solved”.

Thanks in advance.

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