well, it seems as if this thing is actually going to ship. there's a $200 discount still on indiegogo, but i don't know for how long. here it is at CES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLawxkYyug&feature=youtu.be
it'll ship with debian stretch and xfce, which i plan to replace with tde.
the only "pointing device" it has is the touch screen, which means that i'll need to maximize the amount of stuff i can do with the keyboard. i vaguely remember, but never have used, a kde accessibility package that effectively used the arrow keys to replace the mouse. and because of the screen size, i especially want kicker to disappear when it's not in actual use, i'd like to be able to show/hide it with a key combination or some such.
anybody know if this is something i could assign in the current TDE? or that maybe already exists?
thanks!
On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:04:36 -0500 dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
the only "pointing device" it has is the touch screen, which means that i'll need to maximize the amount of stuff i can do with the keyboard. i vaguely remember, but never have used, a kde accessibility package that effectively used the arrow keys to replace the mouse.
Not KDE, but maybe keynav ( http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav ) would work? Or xwarppointer ( http://ishiboo.com/~danny/Projects/xwarppointer/ ) plus glue code?
and because of the screen size, i especially want kicker to disappear when it's not in actual use, i'd like to be able to show/hide it with a key combination or some such.
There are auto-hiding options in the panel configuration. Then you'd just need to create a hotkey binding to send the pointer to a specific screen location to show it again.
E. Liddell
said E. Liddell:
| On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:04:36 -0500 | dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote:
| There are auto-hiding options in the panel configuration. Then you'd | just need to create a hotkey binding to send the pointer to a specific | screen location to show it again.
Right. Alt-F1 will raise Kicker and Kmenu, which is fine. But navigating Kicker with the keyboard isn't anyplace I can find, and I'm sure I've seen in TDE configuration *someplace* the option to use the keyboard in lieu of mouse. It's not been something I've ever needed before, but now it actually is useful and now I can't find it! (Nor, truth be told, do I have the faintest idea how it works.)
dep wrote:
Right. Alt-F1 will raise Kicker and Kmenu, which is fine. But navigating Kicker with the keyboard isn't anyplace I can find, and I'm sure I've seen in TDE configuration someplace the option to use the keyboard in lieu of mouse. It's not been something I've ever needed before, but now it actually is useful and now I can't find it! (Nor, truth be told, do I have the faintest idea how it works.)
you are trying to make my grandmother like rock'n'roll, while she likes chanson :)
said deloptes:
| you are trying to make my grandmother like rock'n'roll, while she likes | chanson :)
your grandmother sounds like a lady of taste and discernment. and when i get all this working on the gemini, i'll send a picture of it and you can give it to her, and she will want one!
On 2018-01-09 10:09:12 dep wrote:
said E. Liddell: | On Mon, 8 Jan 2018 20:04:36 -0500 | dep dep@drippingwithirony.com wrote: | | There are auto-hiding options in the panel configuration. Then you'd | just need to create a hotkey binding to send the pointer to a specific | screen location to show it again.
Right. Alt-F1 will raise Kicker and Kmenu, which is fine. But navigating Kicker with the keyboard isn't anyplace I can find, and I'm sure I've seen in TDE configuration *someplace* the option to use the keyboard in lieu of mouse.
That would be
Peripherals -> Mouse, Tab = Mouse Navigation
but it just allows use of the numeric keypad as a set of cursor keys, so they'd have to be mapped to some sort of gestures. Maybe that could be done with
Regional & Accessibility -> Input Actions, Tab = Gestures Settings
or (heh) Tab = Voices Settings? (I"m using KDE3, not Trinity; don't remember if Trinity has that.)
It's not been something I've ever needed before, but now it actually is useful and now I can't find it! (Nor, truth be told, do I have the faintest idea how it works.)
in TDE configuration *someplace* the option to use the keyboard in lieu of mouse. It's not been something I've ever needed before, but now it actually is useful and now I can't find it!
Control Panel -> Mouse -> last tab has an option to control mouse pointer with numpad.
Janek
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