<div dir="ltr">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 <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 4:22 PM, Bryce Harrington <<a href="mailto:bryce@canonical.com">bryce@canonical.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d">On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 01:25:26AM -0400, Bryan Quigley wrote: > Hello Ubuntu-x, > > I have this idea: <a href="http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5231/" target="_blank">http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5231/</a> > *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: > <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2008-September/001730.html" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2008-September/001730.html</a> > > 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? </div>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 </blockquote></div> </div>