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Left Sided Windows Scrollbars?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hasn't-X11-done-this-already dept.

Skin and Blister asks: "Years ago mouse manufacturers realized that not everyone is right handed and (thankfully) created the option of reversing the mouse buttons to accommodate left handed users. Now that laptops (and obviously tablets) have integrated touch technology, the new challenge for south paws is to use a stylus in the left hand to manipulate a scroll bar on the right side of an open window. Does anyone know if there is a way to move scroll bars to the left side of a window in Microsoft Windows XP Pro?"

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  1. Re:That's EASY! by SQLGuru · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yeah, I tell people that I hate using right handed pencils.....Ned Flanders rules!

    per the Question:
    Use FireFox for your browser:
    http://geckotip.mozdev.org/index.html

    For your Palm (well, your computer kind):
    http://handheld.softpedia.com/get/System-Utilities /LeftScroll-7380.shtml

    Layne

  2. Re:south paw? by phatcabbage · · Score: 4, Informative
    From the Wiktionary:
    southpaw
    1. (informal): One who is left-handed
  3. Spiral Notebooks? by Gr8Apes · · Score: 3, Informative

    What's the problem? Just write in them starting from the back. It'll be backwards for us righties, but then, so is your writing style ;)

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