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I have a Lenovo ThinkPad T430s running with Arch Linux/Gnome 3.6 and I want to switch the left and right button of the trackpoint buttons (the upper ones). I can switch the left/right buttons of ALL mouses (trackpoint/touchpad/bluetooth mouses/usb mouses etc) with the gnome control center no problem, but not specifically for the trackpoint.

When I enter 

xinput set-button-map 14 3 2 1 4 5 6 7

where 14 is the current xinput list device id of my trackpoint, everything is fine until I reboot, which also changes the device id somehow. It is possible to specify the device by name:

xinput set-button-map "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" 3 2 1 4 5 6 7

but later I found out that this setting is lost after suspend. So I tried and created a x11 conf:

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-trackpoint.conf

with the content:

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier      "trackpoint"
    MatchProduct    "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Option  "ButtonMapping"  "3 2 1 4 5 6 7"
EndSection

but that is not working. It seems like this configuration is loaded before gnome and gnome changes everything back. So how do I do this?

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  • You could try adding the xinput command to your .bashrc file, not elegant but it might work.
    – terdon
    Jan 5, 2013 at 14:50
  • yes but what do I put in for the id (which changes on reboot, as I wrote) ?
    – Eike Cochu
    Jan 5, 2013 at 15:10
  • I added xinput set-button-map "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" 3 2 1 4 5 6 7 to my gnome session. It does the trick, but it is ugly. As i learned the gnome settings daemon overrides xorg settings.
    – Eike Cochu
    Jan 5, 2013 at 18:18
  • edit: xinput setting is lost after suspend.
    – Eike Cochu
    Jan 6, 2013 at 0:31

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From https://askubuntu.com/questions/48955/how-can-i-configure-a-specific-usb-mouse-model-as-left-handed and http://ubuntuforums.org/printthread.php?t=1746468&pp=10&page=1 I gather that you might be missing

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.mouse active false

or (alternatively)

Then, once you run gconf-editor, from the GUI, navigate to

apps > gnome_settings_daemon > plugins > mouse

and uncheck the box for "active".

because that's

... not the end of the story, however, as Natty still uses gnome-settings-daemon to control mouse and keyboard settings. Usually, this is smart enough to get out of the way, but when it comes to mice, (specifically buttons) it will attempt to automatically ensure that your primary and secondary buttons are mapped to the system-wide left or right handed layout. In this particular case, we don't want that, so we need to turn this bit of functionality off.

Either of the above should work. Let me know if it doesn't. Good luck!

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