Acutally it doesn't work in lucid.
Every now and then my system reverts to right handed.
When in a non-working state my xinput looks like this:
xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM) id=12 [slave
pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ Tripplite B015-000 R0.74 USB to PS2 adapter. id=14 [slave pointer
(2)]
⎜ ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad id=16 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Power Button id=9 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Sleep Button id=10 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_2HDM id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Tripplite B015-000 R0.74 USB to PS2 adapter. id=13 [slave
keyboard (3)]
↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard id=15 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Dell WMI hotkeys id=17 [slave keyboard (3)]
lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
uname -r
3.0.0-16-generic
dpkg -s gnome-settings-daemon
Package: gnome-settings-daemon
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Installed-Size: 1588
Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team <ubuntu-desk...@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.2.2-0ubuntu2.1
Depends: libappindicator3-1 (>= 0.2.92), libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0),
libcanberra-gtk3-0 (>= 0.25), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libcolord1 (>= 0.1.12),
libcups2 (>= 1.4.0), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.88), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.8.0),
libgconf2-4 (>= 2.31.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>=
2.29.14), libgnome-desktop-3-2 (>= 3.1.5), libgnomekbd7 (>= 2.91.90),
libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.1.10), liblcms2-2 (>= 2.2+git20110628-2), libnotify4 (>=
0.7.3), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (>= 1:0.99.1),
libpulse0 (>= 1:0.99.1), libupower-glib1 (>= 0.9.9), libx11-6, libxfixes3 (>=
1:4.0.1), libxi6 (>= 2:1.2.99.4), libxklavier16 (>= 5.1),
dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, gsettings-desktop-schemas,
nautilus-data (>= 2.91.3-1)
Recommends: pulseaudio
Suggests: x11-xserver-utils, gnome-screensaver, metacity | x-window-manager
Breaks: banshee (<< 0.13.2+dfsg-7), gnome-color-manager (<< 3.0),
gnome-control-center (<< 1:2.21.5), gnome-screensaver (<< 2.28.0),
gnome-session (<< 2.24), rhythmbox (<< 0.11.5), totem (<< 2.22.0)
Conffiles:
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
d80fe6e07c196b0b069fc6185d3e3a29
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-fallback-mount-helper.desktop
58e84e1f8fd68806037a2f70265af2f9
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.DateTimeMechanism.conf
0c753d296e5fe10239b210c97c1f20e7
/etc/gnome/config/Xaw.ad 8b1d2b8fd63d2966d223c36ac56a8081 obsolete
/etc/gnome/config/Tk.ad 0774b17084384112e7e2b5ef3d044b3c obsolete
/etc/gnome/config/General.ad 49682440378a2c7ef52c37ee91f0ba0d obsolete
/etc/gnome/config/Emacs.ad 348fea42a2bc046db8ba8323027d545b obsolete
/etc/gnome/config/Motif.ad 12aca8840f777bcbec2894578141f8e2 obsolete
/etc/gnome/config/Editres.ad 05a3123759008f95ddc2425c822bcfa4 obsolete
Description: daemon handling the GNOME session settings
This package contains the daemon which is responsible for setting the
various parameters of a GNOME session and the applications that run
under it. It handles the following kinds of settings:
.
* Keyboard: layout, accessibility options, shortcuts, media keys
* Clipboard management
* Theming: background, icons, GTK+ applications
* Cleanup of unused files
* Mouse: cursors, speed, accessibility options
* Startup of other daemons: screensaver, sound daemon
* Typing break
.
It also sets various application settings through X resources and
freedesktop.org XSETTINGS.
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<pkg-gnome-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>
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left-handed mouse no longer working
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