Control mouse with keyboard in Ubuntu
If you look at that HackaDay article, it says he created Mouser.exe after viewing a presentation from a guy at Google. Google's known for its use of linux, right? One of the links from your HackaDay article took me here: http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav/ And here is a demo of keynav in action
Just tested on Ubuntu 10.10 and it works fine. I had to install libxdo-dev before it would build (make), but then it ran fine. Note there's no 'make install' target, so just copy the keynav binary it builds to someplace in your path (~/bin, /opt/bin, etc).
Doesn't work awesome with dual monitors.Edit: NM. Split at least once, than use Shift+[hjkl] to move the divider around. That can jump you to the other screen.
It can help out partially . System
-> Settings
-> Assistive Technologies
; then Keyboard Accessibility
, under "Mouse Buttons
"
Also using Shortcuts may help you too.
another way is using ctrl-shift-numlock
that is supposed to be the key combo that will let you move the cursor with the keyboard. But, I can't very sure that it works, since my laptop doesn't have a dedicated numlock key. you can control the mouse from keyboard. Keys / and * on the numpad select left mouse click and right mouse click respectively. Mouse click is done by 5 on the numpad.
In Ubuntu 11, Gnome I found this in System
-> Preferences
-> Keyboard
and then Mouse Keys
tab and check Pointer can be controlled using keypad
.
To access System menu use ALT
+F1
shortcut.