On Sat, May 12, at 11:07 Lauri Kasanen wrote:
> Hi ya'all.
>
> I've been trying to find out how to do that for months. Asked in
> linuxquestions.org, and many other forums, no-one knows. It's for a
> digital pic frame project, where I'll leave only touchpad for control.
> (Joystick is for to-be-nes-pc) I've already found a program that can
> capture any events (from any input dev) and execute a program on them,
> that works in both console and X (keybjar). That's close, but I need
> keyboard events, like moving mouse up causes the up key to be pressed,
> or left click causes enter..
>
This solution (dirty) requires X, fvwm (with stroke support) and the xte
command from xautomation [1].
xte is a command that can generate fake input,eg:
xte -x :0.0 "key Home"
A quick (I have to go out) test in firefox seems to work.
There are also available the following.
Left
Up
Right
Down
Page_Up
Page_Down
End
Return
Backspace
Tab
Escape
Delete
Shift_L
Shift_R
Control_L
Control_R
Meta_L
Meta_R
Alt_L
Alt_R
What you have to do then is to run a script with some arguments (to any of
these actions),
and use the stroke capabilities from fvwm to start this script with a specific
argument,
by using only the touchpad.
Quite ironically you are an opera user which this feature is a built in.
That was a quick thought and possible with flaws but I think it will work.
PS. I don't know which application you are going to use as a picture viewer,
but I found
feh [2] to be almost perfect.
It has as dependencies (besides X, lib{png,jpeg...}, imlib2 and giblib by the
same author.
1. http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html
2. http://linuxbrit.co.uk/feh/
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