mousing in linux, center mouse, or place it top of screen or bottom, with short cut??

ted leslie tleslie-RBVUpeUoHUc at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 8 19:57:19 UTC 2009


i have a new keyboard that has a mouse built into the keys, 
i.e., the f and j key are not only keys when pressed, but
when you move them, other then in the direct down click, 
they move the mouse, so one never has to take their fingers 
of the typing keys to move the mouse.
it gets even better, but also more complicated, but with practice,
its an amazing keyboard, as ones movement to type is reduced by 80%
and movement to mouse around is virtually eliminated. also the
f j "mouse keys" work together to give, fine, med. and fast mouse resolution,

having said all this, i have still had to max my    xset m 9 1
and max out all other setting so i can acheive the fine resolution
to be able to grab at a window boundry to drag on it to resize, but
also have to mouse to fly across the screen fast, from one side to another, 
(i have a 30" hp  2560x1600 in portrait mode) and as it stands right now
it takes 3 seconds to mouse from top of screen to bottom of screen 
(or reverse of that), which seems like an eternity,
but making it faster, impacts the fine resolution,

so what i have now is good, but what would really be great is
a ctrl sequence or alt key that would  center, top, or bottom
position the mouse/cursor instantly,
and i get zip in googles because the search words seem to be some
common with about any discussion talking about mousing around,
so i have found nothing on whether this is possible.
for that matter, if there is any way to position the mouse
via some simple command, i can write some script to run off
a ctrl-<some key> in the gnome key binding settings.
i hope someone has heard of something, else my next step is
to look into hitting C/gmone programming to try and achieve it,
or perhaps into X. maybe digging into some tablet X driver can 
give me some ideas, but i am just hoping someone knows of a 
tool or easier way to do this.

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