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01-04-2010, 08:55 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2009
Distribution: OpenSuse 11.1, Fedora 14, Ubuntu 12.04/12.10, FreeBSD 9.0
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Emulation third mouse button on keyboard
Hi.
I want to emulate third mouse press with keyboard. Like ctrl+left mouse or shift+left mouse
I know I can use left+right in xorg.conf, but I want to use keyboard, because I found uncomfortable to press two buttons.
Does anyone know, if it is possible to use keyboard key+mouse for this purpose or may be just keyboard?
Thanks
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01-04-2010, 09:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nimnull22
or may be just keyboard?
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This'll do it with just the keyboard. To do it with a combination of both you'll probably have to get intimate with the desktop environment's customizing of key bindings or something.
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01-04-2010, 09:47 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Japan
Distribution: Mostly Debian and CentOS
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Debian, has a pacakge called keynav that you can use to emulate mouse functionality with the keyboard. Perhaps it is packaged for Suse too. If not, upstream is here: http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav/
Cheers,
Evo2.
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01-04-2010, 09:57 PM
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Thanks, this would be very exiting if I have additional keypad, but unfortunately I use laptop without it.
I've checked it works, but really need combination.
Any way thank you, I didn't know about it.
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01-04-2010, 10:11 PM
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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Japan
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What did you try? I think with keynav you can assign just about any key to any mouse action: no need for a keypad.
Evo2.
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01-04-2010, 10:53 PM
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If you are using a touchpad on a laptop there are all sorts of things to get up to. It'll probably be easy to do.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21639/
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01-04-2010, 11:11 PM
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Thanks, I didn't try keynav, I will do tomorrow.
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