[ubuntu-x] Automatically start virtual keyboard or virtual mouse when one is not detected

[Bryan Quigley]

I switched to xinput but couldn't really find a more graceful way of getting
the data.

It works but it will turn the MouseKeys on permanently.  I also used xkbset
which creates another dependency.  I was hoping this could be included in
Ubuntu (prolli JJ), should I try to work around the dependency, or just
follow a main inclusion bug?  And any suggestions to not making it permanent
would be helpful too.

Thanks Again,
Bryan Quigley

On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:25:26AM -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote:
> > Hello Ubuntu-x,
> >
> > I have this idea: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5231/
> > *Automatically start virtual keyboard or virtual mouse when one is not
> > detected *
> >
> >   - No Keyboard, but mouse: start on-screen keyboard
> >   - No Mouse, but keyboard: enable numlock keys as mouse, alert user of
> how
> >   to turn on and off
> > Previously discussed on ubuntu-desktop:
> >
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2008-September/001730.html
> >
> > I am currently using this command to detect if there is a mouse present:
> > dmesg | grep mouse | wc -l
> > Is that the best way or should I be using Xinput or something else?
>
> xinput would probably be the better approach going forward.  You may
> want to check what happens in the dmesg output if you boot without a
> mouse and then connect one subsequently.
>
> Bryce
>
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