Re: bindings to move mouse cursor?

Ole Jørgen Brønner <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:16:28 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ion.general
Message-ID <op.u3wb9qnovocxtk@tabole-debian>
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:32:44 +0100, Radu Berinde <[email protected]>  
wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have been searching a lot but no luck - is it possible to have some
> key bindings that move the mouse cursor (e.g. a given number of pixels
> in a given direction) ?
>
> I think that would be a very useful way to switch to the frame you
> want, just move the cursor until it's over that frame, should normally
> only take a couple of keystrokes. The ioncore.goto_next functions
> sometimes don't do exactly what you would want, depending on the
> splitting order and such.
>
> Thanks,
> Radu

In what cases doesn't goto_next work?

The two programs 'swarp' (or 'xte' as suggested) and 'xmousepos' should do  
the trick. (you can find the exact distance needed by finding the current  
frame's absolute coordinates)