left-handed mouse won't function u.9.10

Hi! Please go to System > Preferences and select Mouse, then choose Left-handed under Mouse Orientation. That should do it for you. :-)

thanks im not an expert but im definitly not that NOobish. i have already tried thanks for the reply any other ideas??

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/88706

this is beyond me but seems to be an issue so maybe someone can give some step by step advice pleeeeease!!!!

or is this a bug??

Your question was added to bug report since the issue obviously still remains.

thanks for your help sam look forward to trying to help if i can

Maybe you'd like to read:
man xmodmap

and try to revert the buttons or experiment a little.
#untested
xmodmap -e "pointer = 2 1"

Sam thanks again for your response and the tutorial. i will indeed try to read it all . the little adrenialine rush was cause enough to w for more advice ait . the terminal brought me back to a working right mouse by changing the 12 21 back fortunately i still had one mouse button .

just to verify or clear up changing that out put locked out my other finger tab leaving me with only one working mouse button which was still right handed thanks

man xmodmap as suggested earlier offers a Temporary solution. i have entered this line in the terminal to change over to a left handed setup

EXAMPLES
       Many pointers are designed such that the first button is pressed using
       the index finger of the right hand. People who are left-handed fre‐
       quently find that it is more comfortable to reverse the button codes
       that get generated so that the primary button is pressed using the
       index finger of the left hand. This could be done on a 3 button
       pointer as follows:
       % xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

however I am unable to change back to a right handed mouse in the sys>pref>mouse and further still the . g.i. there does not recognize that there is a difference in input L or R

I am not a programmer so im grateful that i didnt get stuck with an inoperable touchpad or mouse.

can someone please forward this to bugs for a fix or the author for an update.
I understand this is in transit to bugs now just thought i might take a chance and try to help solve this.

i am also unsure of the language in this example as it states a 3 button pointer as i stated originally i only have two buttons with my pad unless this is counted as the third(pad)

the other thing ive noticed is that ive lost my tapping ability on the key pad with this setting

You could change status of bug back to 'confirmed' to get attention and advise how to proceed, maybe a new bug report will be requested. Good luck.

thanks for the responses ive gone to 9.04 which has ended the conflict . with this many years in development it seems tragic something like this is still an issue. will look intothe bug stastis