dokutan / mouse_switcher

Switch between a left and right handed mouse configuration easily

mouse_switcher

Switch between a left and right handed mouse configuration easily.

This program intercepts all events from your mouse and optionally swaps the left and right buttons before sending the event to the system. The swapping of the buttons can be enabled/disabled by pressing an additional mouse button.

Configuration

The button to change the layout can be configured by editing the source code (redefine TOGGLE_BUTTON).

Installing

• Make sure you have libevdev installed, on certain distros (e.g. Ubuntu) a dev package is required
• Clone this repository, build and install with

make
sudo make install

Usage

Access to /dev/input/* and /dev/uinput is required, this can be achieved by running this as root. Basic usage:

mouse_switcher -e <eventfile>

Replace with the appropriate file for your keyboard in /dev/input (/dev/input/by-id makes finding the correct file easy).

Use the option -f to run in the background. Example:

mouse_switcher -f -e /dev/input/event0