[ILUG] Urgent question re mouseless Gnome or KDE

[Conor Daly]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 03:42:24PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
John Gaughan thought:
> 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.

To clarify that just a bit,  /,*,- determine *which* mouse button click
will be generated by the use of 5,+ or 0 but will not generate clicks by
themselves.  So, the sequence to get to the Gnome Control centre through
the menu (Though there's usually a button directly on the panel) is:

<SHIFT><NUMLOCK>
<ARROWKEY(S)> to move (very slowly!) to the gnome button
</> to select MB1
<0> to open the menu
<VariousARROWkeys> to get around the menu
<5> to release the mouse button at the desired app

Conor
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