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2007-03-01 , 22:10
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Originally Posted by penguinbait View Post
What I really want is to bind mouse keys to the nokia buttons. The fact that I can right click on VNC to the n800 means that the X server accepts the mouse actions. The problem is you have to be in wmaker/openbox/fluxbox or some other window manager. Matchbox is designed to be a 1 button window manager, left click only. If I startup an alternate window manager and run x11vnc server I can right click and use the menus.

This shouldn't be that hard. I think if we got mousekeys going we could bind to the buttons maybe. I guess the hard part being getting mousekeys going.
I'm going to stab wildly in the dark again: For the Zaurus (and Archos PMA) platform, there exists a program, "mousel", that will allow the user to plug in a USB mouse, get a cursor (one that you can see) and control the computer with it.

Obviously, the two platforms are seriously dissimilar, but perhaps that code could be adapted for a bluetooth mouse on ITOS. Who knows? I think I saw a Sus scrofa domesticus fly past just now.

Joking aside, the author's homeage is here:
http://home.versatel.nl/hogenberg11/pma400.html
Mousel can be found as the next to last program on that page.
The author can be contacted at the email address at the top of that page (I'm not repeating it here because he's obviously not too keen on spammers). BTW, his name is Jaap Hogenberg; he's Dutch.

May I add that, as someone who's actually used mousel on his Archos, to me the importance of being able to use a mous on a handheld -- even in a stationary position -- is rather overrated. I get along just fine with a stylus/finger and a keyboard.