How to get rid of the mouse

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Preface

Some geeks people have reported an increase in productivity with mouse-less X11 configurations. To ease the step, here go a few tips.

There are various keyboard-driven...

Window Managers

Browsers

Semi-graphical/text browsers

Extensions for Firefox

Music players

Ways to emulate a Pointer Device

In border cases you can still access the pointer device with the keypad by hitting Shift+Num_Lock. If that doesn't work try Shift+Ctrl+Num_Lock, or Shift+Num_Lock then Ctrl+Num_Lock. Some keyboards even have a mouse symbol on the Num_Lock key, others don't have a dedicated Num_Lock key but instead something like the Scroll_Lock combination. On the keypad, 8, 2, 4 and 6 are up, down, left and right; 5 is left mouse key, + is right mouse key and * should be the middle button.

Related articles

How to customize your keyboard mappings in X.

That's it. ~cap

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