Ubuntu
unity-greeter package

Support both left and right mouse button activating elements

Bug #964151 reported by Robin Sheat
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This bug affects 9 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Ayatana Design
New
Undecided
Unassigned
unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

I use the mouse left handed. When I do something that pops up a dialogue, say telling the computer to shut down from the login screen, the buttons on the dialogue don't respond to the primary mouse button (the right one in this case.) I think the menus to bring up that dialogue are ambidextrous (well, I didn't get button confusion bringing it up, anyway.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lightdm 1.1.9-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-19.30-generic 3.2.11
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 25 10:06:53 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
SourcePackage: lightdm
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-16 (8 days ago)

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Robin Sheat (eythian) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in lightdm (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
affects: lightdm (Ubuntu) → unity-greeter (Ubuntu)
affects: lightdm → unity-greeter
summary: - lightdm should work with both left and right handed mouse
+ Unable to configure left handed mouse
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: Unable to configure left handed mouse

Not sure that should be a configuration, you only need to click on the greeter, the old gdm (pre rewrite), was just reacting to both left and right click the same way to avoid those issues

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Robin Sheat (eythian) wrote :

It doesn't make a lot of sense to be a configuration really, you don't know if the person who sat down at the computer just now is right or left handed anyway.

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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

Oh, that's clever. I'd never noticed it did that. I've opened a design task on this to see what they think.

summary: - Unable to configure left handed mouse
+ Support both left and right mouse button activating elements
Changed in unity-greeter:
status: New → Triaged
Changed in unity-greeter (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity-greeter:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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John Lea (johnlea) wrote :

@robert-ancell; let's briefly discuss this bug when we meet at UDS in two weeks time.

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Adam Dingle (adam-yorba) wrote :

Currently it's possible to click most buttons in unity-greeter using either the left or right mouse button. But some still accept only a left click:

- the buttons in the shutdown dialog (as noted above)
- the button that lets you select a login session (e.g. either GNOME or Ubuntu)

Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
no longer affects: unity-greeter
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Mikel Ward (mikelward) wrote :

Still an issue in Trusty.

Why does the last update say "no longer affects:unity-greeter?"

% dpkg-query -W lightdm
lightdm 1.10.1-0ubuntu1

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