> From: "Ag. D. Hatzimanikas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: mouse/joystick to generate keyboard events (in console & X) > Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 17:40:53 +0300 > > 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/
I'll be using Zgv. Opera will be included, and I know it has mouse gestures, but the frame will only use X for web & IM. So it's mostly console.... Any other solutions? Lauri -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
