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Re: Bane of Wearables : the HMD

 wrote:
> 
> >a way to get Xwindows to run without a mouse? (keyboard control of the
> >cursor) It looks like the M-1 is the ONLY choice for a display that is
> 
> that's built into some X window managers.  Meta arrows for fvwm if I
> remember right.
>

I'm running Afterstep on Xfree86 without a pointing device. Afterstep
comes with several builtin keymaps for mouseless use:

ctrl-arrow (move one screen)
shift-arrow (move pointer 5 pixels)
alt-arrow (move screen about 50 pixels)

I haven't found/added the meta keys for the mouse buttons, but I'm sure
it's doable.  You can also alt-tab between windows, which is very
convenient.

I configured xinit to ignore the missing mouse (by default the Xserver
wont start without a mouse device) by adding the line
"AllowMouseOpenFail" to my XF86Config file as Thad has below.

> For booting the X server itself, below's a snippet from my
> /etc/XF86Config file.  However, I actually use the mouse in the
> Twiddler.
> 
> BTW, remember there ARE several monochrome full VGA HUDs out there.
> Xybernaut sells the Kopin one with their machine.  LiquidImage has
> one.  Intersystems used to have one.  Honeywell (for military).
> Planar's chip.  Displaytech.  etc.  The prices are ~$3000 and the power
> is ~3W, but they're available :-)
> 
>                                         Thad
> -----------------------------------
> Section "ServerFlags"
> 
> # This is to avoid the X server hanging up because we commented out
> # the pointer  Device "/dev/mouse" line below.  This flag allows
> # the server to start up even if the mouse device can't be opened/
> # initialized  - doesn't seem to be working    thad
> 
> #AllowMouseOpenFail
> 
> Section "Pointer"
> 
> #   This is to avoid cua0 being interrupted because the X server
> #   is looking for a mouse  thad
>     Protocol    "Microsoft"
>     Device      "/dev/cua9"

-Paul
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