[ILUG] Urgent question re mouseless Gnome or KDE

[John Gaughan]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, David Golden wrote:
> Niall O Broin wrote:
> 
> >Can I use either KDE or Gnome WITHOUT a mouse ? Specifically, how would I
> >get to open the control center in either of them without a mouse to click on
> >the relevant icon ?
> >
> >
> 
> Apart from the normal keyboard shortcuts detailed in other postings, one 
> thing that does work
> in most installs of XFree is the accessibility keyboard-mouse emulation -
> you can press shift-Num Lock, you'll hear a beep, and then the numeric 
> keypad arrow keys
> controls the mouse pointer until you press shift-numlock again. I think 
> 0 is the LMB.

There's a bit more to it than that.  5, + and 0 on the keypad all
generate mouseclicks, 5 and + are a normal click, 0 is click and hold
until 5, + or . is clicked.  The mouse button can be selected with the
/, * and - keys. They give the 1st, 2nd and 3rd mouse button
respectively.

John.

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