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Left handed mouse and the login screen #324

Closed developer1105 closed 6 months ago

developer1105 commented 9 months ago

I have seen options like: large text, screen reader, high contrast but nothing specifically related to left handed mouse.

Some options work no matter what kind of mouse you are using: right handed mouse or left handed mouse.

But others work only if you are using a right handed mouse.

Maybe in future versions of LightDM there could be something like this:

[ ] large text [ ] screen reader [ ] high contrast [ ] reverse mouse

developer1105 commented 9 months ago

Another way to deal with this (instead of adding the 'reverse mouse' option) would be to make options on screen react no matter what mouse button was pressed (no matter if it was the primary button or the secondary button).

This already exists on the bar at the top, but it does not work when choosing user, clicking on the password field, and clicking on the login button

developer1105 commented 6 months ago

I know there is the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf which allows one to configure the mouse to be left-handed;

maybe there should be a better integration between window managers and login managers, or simply allowing any kind of button (no matter if left-handed or right-handed) to give the user the choice to change and select things no matter which hand he/she is using at the moment.