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- From: rmauri@netcom.com (Richard Mauri)
- Subject: Re: X without a mouse
- Message-ID: <+wdmas_.rmauri@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 14:23:46 GMT
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Jul16.162747.9394@cucbs.chem.columbia.edu> <1992Jul17.231847.14779@PA.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Jul17.231847.14779@PA.dec.com> klee@wsl.dec.com writes:
- >|> Is there anyway to run X without a mouse? I had a user who has some
- >|> difficulties with using a mouse due to a handicap. He can manipulate a
- >|> keyboard without any problem. Is there anyway to map mouse motions
- >|> to keys on the keyboard ala MS-Windows?
- >
- >Motif applications have built-in keyboard traversal which allows you to
- >manipulate all X applications using the arrow and tab keys.
- >
- >--
- >Ken Lee
- >DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
- >Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
- >uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
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- What do you do when you need to establish input focus in another application
- or another toplevel window in the same application. Motif keyboard traversals
- don't help you there.
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