Re: A gestural pager assistant

[Thanasis Georgiou <sakisds s gmail com>]

On 31 December 2011 17:04, Christophe Lohr <christophe lohr cegetel net> wrote:
> Le 31/12/2011 12:48, Thanasis Georgiou a écrit :
>> Yes, nothing happens. I did this to compile/run it, am I doing it right?
>>
>> gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o gpa gpa.c -lX11; chmod +x gpa; ./gpa
>
>
> Yes, you're right.
>
> When you press Control+Button1, the picture of the pointer should change.
> Isn't it ? (If yes, you can move your mouse to change desktop)
> Note that it is important to press Control before Button1, not the opposite.
>
> However your can choose another "pointer grabing" sequence.
>
> By default the "modifier" is Control. But you can select something else (or
> none). This is the "-m" option".
> You chan also choose another button. This is the "-b" option.
>
> Type gpa -h for details.
>
> Let me know if it doesn't work.
> Regards.
>

I tried the -m option, it only works if I set it to 32768 (for any
modifier). I tried all other options without success.
While it works though, it's pretty good and useful. It would be nice
to extend this, it adds a new interesting way of controlling the
shell.

And by the way, happy new year!

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Thanasis Georgiou