Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Jul 2009 21:38 UTC
It's time for another "OSNews asks" item. This time, I want to focus on something that I've been wanting to talk about with you all before, but never found the time for. The question is simple: which feature(s) from other operating systems would you like to see in your own main operating system?
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RE: mouse control with the keyboard
by Delgarde on Wed 15th Jul 2009 22:37
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Member since:2008-08-19
On my amiga, some .. omfg .. 20years ago, I could hold down, I think left-amiga and then press the arrow keys to move the mouse pointer.
I know that *used* to be available under Linux - I remember using it back in Redhat 5/6 days, must be ten years ago now. I assume there's still some way of doing it under modern versions of X.
RE: mouse control with the keyboard
by Elv13 on Wed 15th Jul 2009 22:37
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Member since:2006-06-12
RE: mouse control with the keyboard
by Kalessin on Wed 15th Jul 2009 22:40
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Member since:2007-01-18
KDE has that. IIRC, you hit either ctrl-F12 or alt-F12 (I'm stuck in Windows at work at the moment and can't check which) and the arrow keys move the mouse while the enter key clicks it. It doesn't work perfectly (for instance, plasma apps tend to ignore the click), but it's there.
RE: mouse control with the keyboard
by phoenix on Thu 16th Jul 2009 15:30
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Member since:2005-07-11
On my amiga, some .. omfg .. 20years ago, I could hold down, I think left-amiga and then press the arrow keys to move the mouse pointer. It accellerated exponantially in speed when held down, for better or worse, and then I think i pressed for example left-amiga + left-alt for left mouse click.
For the few cases where I had no mouse available, I really missed this feature on non-Amiga platforms.
For the few cases where I had no mouse available, I really missed this feature on non-Amiga platforms.
This is available in Windows since Windows 95. It's called MouseKeys, and is enabled via the Accessibility applet in the Control Panel. Turn num lock off, and the number pad becomes your mouse, including the diagonals. Insert is the left mouse button, the ./del key is the right mouse button.
This is available in KDE since at least 3.0.
I think this is available in GNOME, but I've never used GNOME for more than a couple minutes at a time (usually long enough to uninstall it), so can't be sure.
Don't know about MacOS X.
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On my amiga, some .. omfg .. 20years ago, I could hold down, I think left-amiga and then press the arrow keys to move the mouse pointer. It accellerated exponantially in speed when held down, for better or worse, and then I think i pressed for example left-amiga + left-alt for left mouse click.
For the few cases where I had no mouse available, I really missed this feature on non-Amiga platforms.