mousetweaks

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mousetweaks - Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices

mousetweaks is a collection of accessibility enhancements for pointing devices. This manual page describes the mousetweaks daemon.

--dwell: Automatically perform mouse clicks without using a physical button.
--ssc: Trigger the secondary mouse button when the primary mouse button is held down for a specified amount of time.
--dwell-time=FLOAT: Time to keep the pointer motionless before a dwell click is performed. Range: 0.2 - 3.0 seconds.
--ssc-time=FLOAT: Time to hold the primary mouse button before a simulated secondary click is performed. Range: 0.5 - 3.0 seconds.
-m, --dwell-mode=STRING: Select a dwell mode. Available options: window - Select the click type from a window or a panel applet. gesture - Perform different clicks by moving in different directions.
-c, --show-ctw: Show the click-type window. Only useful in combination with --dwell-mode=window.
-t, --threshold=INT: Ignore small pointer movements. Range: 0 - 30 pixels.
-g, --geometry: Size and position of the click-type window. Expects a standard X Window System geometry string. ie. WIDTHxHEIGHT+X+Y
-s, --shutdown: Stop the mousetweaks daemon.
--daemonize: Start mousetweaks in the background, ie. spawn a child process.
--login: Start mousetweaks in login mode. Login mode enables workarounds specific to GDM. Currently unused.

mousetweaks.pid

: The daemon creates a lock file in the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR directory to keep track of its state. On systems with no user runtime directory, the $XDG_CACHE_HOME directory is used.

This manual page was written by Francesco Fumanti.

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