** Description changed: Ubuntu is shipping software to provide automatic clicks with its default installation for a few years already. The name of the software providing (among others) dwell clicks is mousetweaks. It would be great if the unity-greeter provided a way for users, that are not able to click with a hardware button, to enable the dwell click offered by the mousetweaks software. Several weeks ago, there was a little thread about (among others) how dwelling could be enabled in the unity-greeter on the ubuntu devel discussion list. Instead of trying to reproduce its content here, let me simply point you to a relevant email: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2011-June/012709.html + + The following has been added later: + + Such an option would not only be useful for the users that need + dwelling, but it should be implemented also for the following reason: + + Let's imagine now a user that unwillingly started the dwell click by + using the appropriate dwellable button on the onscreen keyboard named + onboard, and closes onboard afterwards. Because of unity-greeter + remembering the state of its options across logins, at the next login, + he will see the system performing clicks automatically and might not be + aware that he started the dwell click during the preceding session. + (Please, don't solve the problem by not making it remember anymore the + state of the options across logins; I would consider it as a + regression.) + + I assume that if there was a way to directly start onboard in the unity- + greeter, this would automatically also make the user aware of the + existence of the dwell click. + + For the moment, the dwell click is only reachable through the onscreen + keyboard onboard, but it is not onboard that offers the dwell click + feature. In fact, the dwell click feature is provided by the mousetweaks + package; onboard only provides an UI that is able to control the dwell + click. + + One final remark: Onboard cannot be seen as a solution to the problem to + start the dwell click in unity-greeter, because the user has to perform + a click that is not a dwell click to open Onboard that provides the + dwellable button to start the dwell click.
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