[feature request] Left-handed mouse buttons

[toimine]

This is an option that exists in at least Xfce and Windows that swaps the left and right mouse buttons, making you press buttons with the right button, spawn context menus with the left button etc. Any games will also treat your right button as a left button, and vice versa.
I just tried setting up Window Maker on NixOS 23.11, but could find an option for it, maybe I missed something?

[d-torrance]

I think this feature is probably beyond the scope of a window manager, but you could try adding the following to ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart:

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

Note that autostart should be executable for this to work.

[toimine]

Of course, xmodmap! I forgot I could use that. That works perfectly, thanks.

[gryf]

the other option is to configure Xorg for input device, i.e.:

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Mouse"
    Driver      "mouse"
    Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mouse0"
    Option      "ButtonMapping" "3 2 1 4 5"
EndSection

although xmodmap way feels more flexible.