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How do I swap mouse buttons to be left handed from the terminal?

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I am left handed person.

Therefore I want to interchange the typical mouse buttons for right and left clicks.

I want to do this via terminal. May someone please suggest the command for it?

Is it possible to interchange these clicks at the login screen also? I am using Ubuntu 12.04.

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answered 2 Years ago nuehan · Accepted Answer

xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"

in a terminal should work. If you want to run that command at the start of lightdm (the default login screen), you can edit /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf like described here - use the xmodmap command instead of xbacklight in the script, of course.