Questions tagged [mouseless]
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How to get back to an active minibuffer prompt in emacs without the mouse
In emacs, sometimes I will be in the middle of finding a file or switching buffers or doing something in the minibuffer, and I will click somewhere else for some reason. When I go back, the only way to make the minibuffer prompt active again is to…
Ryan C. Thompson
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Control mouse with keyboard in Ubuntu
I'm looking for a program that I can use to control the mouse from the keyboard.
I think a video can explain it much better than I could, so please check out Mouser from…
K. Norbert
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Can I reactivate the cursor keys for modifying a cell reference in a formula?
When I enter an Excel formula by hand avoiding the mouse, I can conveniently reference cells by using the arrow keys (->,<- etc.). For example, I can enter the formula =A2&B2 in cell C2 by entering
=<-&<-<-
The result looks like this:
If I want to…
Jonas Heidelberg
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Mouse-less use of Windows 7 -- Selection of windows?
So I have been slowly transitioning to using my keyboard for faster use of my computer but have been looking for an alternative to alt+tab and win+tab for selecting windows. I am hoping someone knows of a program that would let me select windows…
Tom
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Force caret / focus somewhere in the current viewport while browsing the page
Note: this is strictly Firefox question, as I have way too many addons to switch. However, if you know if I can do it in the other browser, your posts are welcome as well.
I am trying to switch to completely mouseless internet browsing (as much as…
jakub.g
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How do you click web page elements without a mouse?
I installed Arch Linux a few days ago on my Chromebook C720, but due to some kernel support issues with the touchpad, I'm left with no mouse. I'm not too bothered about fixing it right now though, because I figure it's a good chance to learn how to…
Zaz
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xorg: emulate mouse, no numeric keypad
How to emulate the mouse without a real mouse on X?
i know about shift+num lock but i'm using a half keyboard that does not have a num pad or even the num lock key...
i'm looking for something native that i can just turn on or maybe quickly add to…
gcb
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Mouseless: Restore Hipchat's Windows client?
Using only my keyboard, how can I bring to the forefront the Hipchat Windows client that has been minimized to the notification area?
lance
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