#HOW TO CHANGE MOUSE TO LEFT HANDED INSTALL#
#HOW TO CHANGE MOUSE TO LEFT HANDED DOWNLOAD#
#HOW TO CHANGE MOUSE TO LEFT HANDED FREE#

This lack of extra design and features make many cheap mice suitable for use in both hands and are therefore pretty popular with left-handed people. Many cheap mice come with no ergonomics or extra buttons designed to make their use suited to a particular hand.

Not everyone uses these types of mice though. Some mouse manufacturers offer left-handed mice, designed with left-handed ergonomics and buttons positioned to be suited for use in the left-hand. Unfortunately, this placing means they are specifically designed for right-handed people, as a left-handed grip just doesnвЂ™t hold the mouse in a way that makes those buttons convenient. However, many mice now include extra buttons, placed where the thumb is designed to rest, for easy use. Physically the traditional design of the mouse with a left and right button and a scroll wheel in between is easily reversible. This ergonomic shaping is often mostly size, height, and length, but it also covers curvature and angle. Physically a broad range of mice come with shaping designed to fit one of a few common grip styles when used in the right hand. This handed-ness design of computer mice comes in two forms, ergonomics and button order. xmc extension, but you can simply remove the extension.The computer mouse is a key part of controlling a computer for most people, but the vast majority of mice are designed for use in the right-hand. If you want to save your file choose Export to and then pick X11 Mouse Cursor.

#HOW TO CHANGE MOUSE TO LEFT HANDED FREE#

You can edit cursor files (and make your own cursor theme :) ) using gimp which is a free alternative to Photoshop. Now if you log out and log in again, you should have your new (beautiful) cursors. Now let the new left_ptr and hand2 point to the right_ptr and hand3 files sudo ln -s right_ptr left_ptr Now backup the original left_ptr and hand2 files sudo mv left_ptr left_ptr_orig

#HOW TO CHANGE MOUSE TO LEFT HANDED DOWNLOAD#

Then download the hand3 cursor sudo wget First go to the DMZ-White cursor directory cd /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/

The pointer is /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/right_ptr, and mirrored hand is called hand3 and I made it available on mediafire (if you follow the instructions below, you will download it automatically to the correct directory). The DMZ-White theme also provides a pointer that points to the right, and I made my own mirrored hand using gimp (see note at the end): Which are /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/left_ptr and /usr/share/icons/DMZ-White/cursors/hand2. The cursors that you use most are the normal pointer and the hand (which appears if you hover over a link): The above approach works but the cursors are ugly, however you can also modify the default theme. Modifying the default (DMZ-White) theme (beautiful) To change between the installed cursor themes. You can use sudo update-alternatives -config x-cursor-theme Now if you log out and log in again, you should have your new cursors. Sudo update-alternatives -set x-cursor-theme /usr/share/icons/ComixCursors-LH-White-Small/index.theme On Ubuntu the utility update-alternatives manages the cursor themes, so we need to tell it about this new theme we want to use, execute sudo update-alternatives -install /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme x-cursor-theme /usr/share/icons/ComixCursors-LH-White-Small/index.theme 91 Now we need to add the following line at the bottom (of course if you pick another theme, you should write the name of the other theme) Inherits = ComixCursors-LH-White-Small All themes are located in /usr/share/icons, and for the ComixCursors-LH-White-Small theme we need to do sudo gedit /usr/share/icons/ComixCursors-LH-White-Small/index.themeД¬omment = The left-handed Comix Cursors - White Small Bold

The theme ComixCursors-LH-White-Small looks the most decent, so let's pick that oneДЇirst we need to add an extra line to the themes index.themes file.

#HOW TO CHANGE MOUSE TO LEFT HANDED INSTALL#

Although gcursor doesn't seem to do install the theme for me it is useful to see what a cursor theme looks like. You have to install comixcursors-lefthanded and gcursor (gnome cursor theme managing software). You have the following options: comixcursors-lefthanded (ugly) It does not seem there are many left-handed cursor themes.

How to change mouse to left handed