Re: FVWM: Simulating Mouse Clicks

From: Andrew Pimlott <andrew_at_pimlott.ne.mediaone.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 10:18:00 -0500

On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:08:53AM -0330, Neil Zanella wrote:
> I would like to simulate mouse clicks as follows:
>
> What commands should I issue from within my window manager
> configuration script for these key bindings to take place?
> Can I do this with xmodmap? I've heared of the
>
> xmodmap -e "keysym Num_Lock = Num_Lock Pointer_EnableKeys"

>From what I've heard, the window manager can only generate "synthetic"
clicks, which are not honored by many applications. The only way to
generate real clicks is with Pointer_EnableKeys, but the mapping for
that is not easily configurable AFAIK.

I agree this is stupid. I often use fvwm keyboard mappings to move the
cursor and am often itching to click with the keyboard as well.

BTW, I found this:

http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part2/section-19.html

It suggests that Pointer_EnableKeys is configurable, but evidently
nobody has written a program to configure it. Anyone? ;)

Andrew

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Received on Tue Dec 21 1999 - 09:55:01 GMT

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