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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] [-t|--threshold=INT]
11 [-g|--geometry] [-s|--shutdown] [--daemonize] [-?|--help]
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14 mousetweaks is a collection of accessibility enhancements for pointing
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18 --dwell
19 Automatically perform mouse clicks without using a physical but‐
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22 --ssc Trigger the secondary mouse button when the primary mouse button
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26 Time to keep the pointer motionless before a dwell click is per‐
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30 Time to hold the primary mouse button before a simulated sec‐
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33 -m, --dwell-mode=STRING
34 Select a dwell mode. Available options: window - Select the
35 click type from a window or a panel applet. gesture - Perform
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39 Show the click-type window. Only useful in combination with
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43 Ignore small pointer movements. Range: 0 - 30 pixels.
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46 Size and position of the click-type window. Expects a standard X
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50 Stop the mousetweaks daemon.
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52 --daemonize
53 Start mousetweaks in the background, ie. spawn a child process.
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56 Start mousetweaks in login mode. Login mode enables workarounds
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60 mousetweaks.pid
61 The daemon creates a lock file in the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR directory
62 to keep track of its state. On systems with no user runtime
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67 ⟨http://bugzilla.gnome.org/⟩
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70 This manual page was written by Francesco Fumanti.
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73 Licenced under the GNU General Public License v3 or later.
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