Talk:Mouse keys

No mention of MacOS Classic 68K/PPC ??
As far as I remember this was implemented as an accessibility feature in the Easy Access control panel in Macintosh GUI since System 4.2, released in October 1987 when GUIs where a rarity (it was Windows 1.04 era!). That probably makes it the first occurrence of the feature, and the name was "Mouse Keys", so it probably gave its name to the feature too. You pressed Command-Shift-Clear to activate it.

"Keypad Mouse (Activate/Deactivate)   To set the keypad to control mouse movement, press the Command-Shift-Clear keys.    The 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, keys control movement and direction of the pointer.    The 5 key is the mouse button.    The 0 key locks the mouse button.    The decimal point key unlocks the mouse button."

Source: https://support.apple.com/kb/ta28141

About the appearance of Easy Access in System 4.2 and year: "Several new utlities, including Backgrounder, DA Handler, Easy Access and Print Monitor, as well as Background Printing with the LaserWriter, were introduced."

Source: http://apple.wikia.com/wiki/System_4.2

Regarding diagonal movement
Um, "MS Windows does not support diagonal movement"? Windows XP does. Please update this page. 67.142.130.42 (talk) 03:32, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * It was updated. I guess it was updated years ago. I suggest to remove this section from the talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.102.255.47 (talk) 19:09, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Button...
When I press 5, does it equivalent to left or right click? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mark Chung (talk • contribs) 12:19, 21 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Typing 5 is equivalent to clicking the selected button. By default, the selected button is the primary button (nominally under index finger, left button for most right-handed people and right button for most left-handed people). Typing - selects the alternate button (nominally under ring finger, right button for most right-handed people and left button for most right-handed people). Typing * selects the modifier button (nominally under the middle finger, middle button of a 3-button mouse). Typing / selects the primary button. The selection remains in effect until a different button is selected.


 * Assignment of left/middle/right button to primary/modifier/alternate, alternate/modifier/primary, or something else is settable by many means. Some mice have a switch, that swaps assignment of right and left keys. Many laptop bioses have a setting for mouse button assignment. Many windowmanagers have a setting that permutes the assignment, and a permutation can be applied with xmodmap(1). Grandfatherclok (talk) 04:23, 23 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Created a new section, Mouse keys by copying Grandfatherclok reply. I don't know if this section will be approved by the editors.

Windows bug
Doesn't seem to work correctly when set up with a left-handed mouse. System: Dell laptop with touchpad & touchstick, running Windows XP Pro. —DIV (138.194.12.32 (talk) 09:06, 16 April 2010 (UTC))


 * It also causes display problems when used on XP, after a short while windows starts to act erratically, not opening new programs, and causing display issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.191.43 (talk) 23:52, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Link Maintenance
May 2010: A citation (gnome configuration) was reported broken. Link was updated. All other links and citations were tested successfully. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grandfatherclok (talk • contribs) 16:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

"MouseKeys", "Mousekeys", or "mouse keys"?
This article uses all of "MouseKeys", "Mousekeys", and "mouse keys". What is the correct term? --Mortense (talk) 10:17, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Part of the X Window System specification, The X Keyboard Extension: Library Specification, Library Version 1.0/Document Revision 1.1, X Consortium Standard, X Version 11 / Release 6.4, Keyboard Controls, 10.5.2 provides both reference code and description. The X Window System specification used English grammar for description and medial capitals for reference code. Accordingly, in the document cited, mouse keys appeared in description as a concrete noun phrase, and "MouseKeys" appeared in reference code. The article has been revised by removing the single inconsistent use. --Grandfatherclok (talk) 04:19, 10 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Needs to be revised again, as it is currently inconsistent. MOUSEKEYS structure (Windows) calls it "the MouseKeys accessibility feature".  This suggests either the article title should change, or these distinctions should be clarified within the article.
 * —DIV (120.17.182.201 (talk) 12:28, 28 January 2017 (UTC))

wp "ratpoison" article
We should mention and link to our own article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratpoison for which see http://www.mzlinux.org/?q=node/191

There is also the wiki book at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_Ratpoison/Introduction

G. Robert Shiplett

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