Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Colin, If cleaning improved the side to side action of the mouse and you can move the mouse down much easier than up then you probably have the same problem that I had. There is a roller that is held in place by a small spring and that spring is weak. When moving the mouse down, normal pressure

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Colin Watson
kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: >On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:59:20PM -0600, Bruce Sass >([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Hmmm, this doesn't work with icewm, but hitting F12 in KDE2 does toggle >> mouse movement via the keyboard. >> >> Which window managers and version of X are you guys using? > >Windo

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:59:20PM -0600, Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > You can hit to get something like MouseKeys using > > > > > the > > > > > number pad. > <...> > > Yes, "/", "*", and "-" seem to change the flavor of the '5' key. > > > > I've gone through Google, the XFr

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Bruce Sass
> > > > You can hit to get something like MouseKeys using > > > > the > > > > number pad. <...> > 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 (

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
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 Wats

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Chris Gray
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

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-09 Thread kmself
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 > >

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Chris Gray
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

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
Damian Menscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: >> 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

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
ecked 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. > >I don't know about any program si

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Damian Menscher
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > 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 j

Re: Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
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

Simulating a mouse

2000-10-08 Thread Colin Watson
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: