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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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mouse gestures in X

i use mouse gestures in mozilla since mozilla 0.9.9 - very usefull!! (optimoz)

shortly i ran over an app for windows, that enables gestures for all apps available in windows: http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/

funny, but since i installed it, i start to like working in windows a little bit more (no more ctrl-c ctrl-v to copy/paste, running apps by simply draw M or W or E on desktop - cool!! that should be defaultly installed on every windows by my opinion (running commands in a OS, that do not have any usefull shell is horribly primitive, but gestures make it more "usable"))

as windows is not my normal desktop and is only used, when i do ebanking, it's obvious, that having mouse gestures in X would be the next step in making the desktop more usefull

a little search resulted this:

http://www.xstroke.org/
http://gestures.sourceforge.net/
http://www.stressbunny.com/wayv/

does anybody have any experience with one of them?

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tpowa

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From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,322

Re: mouse gestures in X

if you use kde
i think there is a gesture module in kontrolcenter
but i never used it

lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: mouse gestures in X

Mouse gestures can also be supported by wm/de. For example this library is often used with fvwm: http://www.etla.net/libstroke/ I never tried it but I'm planning to (like many many other things on my to-do list :-))

BTW at least xstroke is using this library. Links to other projects (including kstroke) are on that page too.

dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: mouse gestures in X

Mouse gestures can also be supported by wm/de. For example this library is often used with fvwm: http://www.etla.net/libstroke/ I never tried it

cool, thanx for the link

but I'm planning to (like many many other things on my to-do list :-))

he he ... i know absolutely what you mean: i also have a todo list that is more than 12kb big (well, "saving the planet" is also part of it, but i seriously plan to do this task once!!!)

BTW at least xstroke is using this library. Links to other projects (including kstroke) are on that page too.

ooh.. great, libstroke is on the way to extra :-)

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