Has anyone else noticed that since upgrading to 11.1 if you’ve got the
mouse buttons set to left handed in KDE when you rdesktop to a windows
machine with the mouse buttons set to right-handed the mouse behaves as
a right-handed one?
I guess this is technically more correct than keeping the left-handed
settings but kinda irritating. Is there a way to get rdesktop to keep
the left-handed mouse settings? Or is it just me doing (or not doing)
something clearly evident?
Found a solution to this. There’s a patch available on the sourceforge
page for the rdesktop project submitted by someone with the name stlman.
(‘SourceForge.net: rdesktop: Detail: 2038819 - left handed mouse
(cont.)’ (http://tinyurl.com/8wgtd6))
So the solution was to uninstall the rdesktop package through Yast,
download the source and the diff (link at the bottom of the page linked
to above). Apply the patch to the untared source. There’s a variety of
ways you can do this but I used kompare. Then it was just a matter of
./configure, make, sudo make install.
When running rdesktop after that use the -M flag and the mouse buttons
will stay left handed in the remote session.
If I get a chance I’ll put an article on the suse wiki about this.
