Today I found a really cool command that lets you use your numpad as a mouse in X. If you type this into your terminal emulator:
setxkbmap -option keypad:pointerkeys
And press Shift + NumLock
, you can move your cursor using the numpad. Here are the bindings:
7 8 9
\|/
4-.-6
/|\
1 2 3
And you press 5 to click. There are also other bindings. The top three characters (/,*,-
) signify left click, middle click ad right click. To start your cursor is on left click. To change it you press the corresponding key then 5 to actually click.
To drag soething you press 0, then you press .
to release.
How do it make it run everytime?
Put the command setxkbmap -options keypad:pointerkeys
into your WM's rc file or if it doesn't have one put it into your ~/.xinitrc
.
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