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6 mousetweaks - Accessibility enhancements for the mouse
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9 mousetweaks [--enable-dwell] [--enable-secondary] [--dwell-time=FLOAT]
10 [--secondary-time=FLOAT] [-m|--dwell-mode=STRING] [-c|--show-ctw]
11 [-x|--ctw-x=INT] [-y|--ctw-y=INT] [-t|--threshold=INT] [-a|--ani‐
12 mate-cursor] [-s|--shutdown] [-?|--help]
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15 mousetweaks is a daemon that provides various mouse features for the
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20 --enable-dwell
21 Automatically perform mouse clicks without using a physical but‐
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25 Trigger the secondary mouse button when the primary mouse button
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29 Time to keep the pointer motionless before a dwell click is per‐
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33 Time to hold the primary mouse button before a simulated sec‐
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37 Select a dwelling mode. Available arguments are: window, gesture
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40 Select the active click type from a window or a panel
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48 Show the click-type window. Only useful in combination with
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52 X Position of the click-type window on screen.
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58 Ignore small pointer movements. Range 0 - 30 pixels.
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61 Show elapsed time as cursor overlay.
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64 Stop the mousetweaks daemon.
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68 The daemon creates a lock file in the users home directory to
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73 ⟨http://bugzilla.gnome.org/⟩
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76 mousetweaks was written by Gerd Kohlberger <lowfi@chello.at>
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79 Licenced under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
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82 dwell-click-applet(1), pointer-capture-applet(1), Assistive Technology
83 Service Provider Interface (AT-SPI)
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