SOLVED: Setting a Mouse to Left handed?

[confuzzled]

As a left handed user I am used to setting my mouse with the buttons reversed. However this option does not appear in the mouse setup from the puppy wizards. Is there a way to do this? or is it something that I should request as a new feature?

[rarsa]

Very easy to set-up from the command line it is one of the following commands (I'm not in linux right now to refresh my memory)

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xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1 4 5"
or 
xmodmap -e "pointer = 2 1 3 4 5"

You can then add it to /root/.xinitrc or create scrtipt for whenever you want to switch.

I know that 1 corresponds to left button, 4 and 5 correspond to the scroll wheel moving up or down but I don't remember if the right button is 2 or 3.

[confuzzled]

Thanks. The first one seemed to be the correct one. The second one sets the middle mouse button as the prime button.