Re: [dev] mapping keyboard buttons to move the mouse?

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On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Aurélien Aptel wrote:

> I don't know if this exists already but we could divide the screen
> into sections. Some ideas:
> 1) The screen is a section that you can split. You either go to the
> left/right or up/down on the actual section to split it. The cursor is
> then warped at the center of the created section, and so on.
> 2) Cursor speed is proportional to the section size.
>
> If it's integrated with the wm, section can be window.
> I'll try to implement something.
>
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:56 PM, <hessiess_AT_hessiess.com> wrote:
>> Sure, I have attached a tar of what I currently have, it just moves
>> the
>> cursor right 1 pixel at a time, It is so fast that it locks the
>> cursor to
>> the right side of the screen, so it is limited to 4000 iterations.
>>
>> How do you create a event receiver with xlib to catch mod5(alt gr)
>> + some
>> key regardless of the focused window?
>>
>>> Post the code
>>>
>>> ------Original Message------
>>> From: hessiess_AT_hessiess.com
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>>> Subject: Re: [dev] mapping keyboard buttons to move the mouse?
>>> Sent: Aug 26, 2009 21:52
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 1:46 AM, <hessiess_AT_hessiess.com> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks for the application suggestions. how can I get the current
>>>>> cursor
>>>>> location from the CLI?
>>>>
>>>> See attached file.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for that, though I cannot get the cursor to move smoothly,
>>> using
>>> cli commands, it moves very slowly and jerkily. I guess its
>>> becouse a lot
>>> of processes are being spawned/killed in a short time period.
>>>
>>> Il try to reimplement it with C.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> Sent from my BlackBerry
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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