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6 mousetweaks - Accessibility enhancements for pointing devices
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9 mousetweaks [--dwell] [--ssc] [--dwell-time=FLOAT] [--ssc-time=FLOAT]
10 [-m|--dwell-mode=STRING] [-c|--show-ctw] [-x|--ctw-x=INT]
11 [-y|--ctw-y=INT] [-t|--threshold=INT] [-s|--shutdown] [--disable-anima‐
12 tions] [--daemonize] [-?|--help]
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15 mousetweaks is a collection of accessibility enhancements for pointing
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19 --dwell
20 Automatically perform mouse clicks without using a physical but‐
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23 --ssc Trigger the secondary mouse button when the primary mouse button
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26 --dwell-time=FLOAT
27 Time to keep the pointer motionless before a dwell click is per‐
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30 --ssc-time=FLOAT
31 Time to hold the primary mouse button before a simulated sec‐
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34 -m, --dwell-mode=STRING
35 Select a dwell mode. Available options: window - Select the
36 click type from a window or a panel applet. gesture - Perform
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39 -c, --show-ctw
40 Show the click-type window. Only useful in combination with
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43 -x, --ctw-x=INT
44 x-position of the click-type window on screen.
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50 Ignore small pointer movements. Range: 0 - 30 pixels.
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53 Stop the mousetweaks daemon.
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56 Disable cursor animations. The animation shows the timer
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61 Start mousetweaks in the background, ie. spawn a child process.
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63 --login
64 Start mousetweaks in login mode. Login mode enables workarounds
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68 ~/.mousetweaks.pid
69 The daemon creates a lock file in the users home directory to
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73 Report bugs to <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/>
74 ⟨http://bugzilla.gnome.org/⟩
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77 mousetweaks was written by Gerd Kohlberger. This manual page was writ‐
78 ten by Francesco Fumanti.
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81 Licenced under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
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