On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:02:49AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> writes:
> > On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 01:48:08PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
> > > How about this from the X11 FAQ:
> > >
> > > Subject: 36)! How can I control the mouse with the keyboard?
> > >...
> >
> > I thought there was a reference in our FAQ, but I can't find it.
> > Is it possible that the corresponding paragraph was removed?
>
> I wrote some Perl to go thru the FAQ revisions. This was
> removed with revision 1.21:
>
> 3.5 You can bind mouse movements to keystrokes, how about mouse
> presses?
>
> A: Hm. This one is a little tougher. It could be done, but many
> programs ignore synthetic events, which is what would be generated.
> In X11R6.1 there is an extension (called XKBD?) which can do this,
> but I don't want to code to anything specific to one of the newer
> X11 versions like this. You could try using Xse, which is a
> program to interface to XSendEvent, available at ftp.x.org. It
> could probably be used in a simliar manner to xcb above (or in
> conjunction with it). If anyone comes up with good examples for
> this, please send it to the fvwm mailing list for inclusion here.
It won't hurt to put a reference to the X11 FAQ in our FAQ.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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