Re: Simulating a mouse
On Sun, Oct 08, 2000 at 10:43:13PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My mouse has recently developed an extreme reluctance to move the mouse
> pointer along the up/down axis; I'm assuming some sensor inside is dirty
> or something, but the cleaning I can do doesn't seem to make any
> difference. At some point I'll probably just get a new mouse, but in the
> meantime:
>
> Does anybody know if I can install a "mouse" driver that really takes
> its input from hotkeys on the keyboard? That is, a keyboard-driven
> mouse. I've checked my window manager documentation, just in case, but I
> didn't really expect it to be able to move the mouse around, as it's the
> wrong level. If anybody knows of such a thing, I'd be grateful to hear
> about it.
>
> No need to Cc: me - I'm subscribed to this list.
I don't know about any program simulating a mouse. However, I know
Icewm can move and resize windows using Alt-F7 and Alt-F8, respectively,
by using the arrow keys. I'm sure some of the other window managers
have similar behaviors.
There have been discussions in the past about making a fake mouse so X
would run without any mouse attached. You might search the archives if
you're interested.
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