On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 11:23:08AM -0400, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:03:20AM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:03:26AM -0400, Chris Gray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:25:28AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > In the longer term I'd like to keep my need to move from the keyboard to > > > > the mouse as low as possible, to slow the onset of things like RSI. I > > > > was wondering if any disabled Linux users had come up with anything > > > > (remembering that Windows has something like "MouseKeys", not that I > > > > ever needed it while I was still using Windows). > > > > > > You can hit <Shift + Num_Lock> to get something like MouseKeys using the > > > number pad. > > > > Where the heck is this documented? I think I knew it once, but I > > must've forgotted it before I was born. > > Me too. I know I've seen it documented somewhere, but I couldn't find > it anywhere. Eventually, I found it by trying modifiers with the Num > Lock key. > > > Playing with keypad plus modifiers, it seems that hitting a <shift> key > > various times effects the accelleration of pointer movement. Or maybe > > not. The '5' and '+' keys appear to emulate mouse button 1 (left). I > > can't find my middle and right mouse button equivalents. Anyone? > > Diagonal movement works, though, which is cool. > > I think it's a bit more complicated than that. The 5 key seems to > change meaning depending on whether the /, *, or - key was hit before > it. The shift key does seem to speed up the pointer. Damn, I wish I > could find those docs.
Yes, "/", "*", and "-" seem to change the flavor of the '5' key. I've gone through Google, the XFree86 Howto, and the X User Howto without finding any docs on this function. Ditto the FAQ (dated -- Nov, 1999) at http://www.xfree86.org/. Hmmm.... -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0
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