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I need assistive technologies to work on my laptop, however I also want LXDE on said laptop. Is there a way I can run assistive technologies under LXDE? When I run "mouse tweaks" it tells me it needs to log me out to enable assistive technologies, however when I tell it to do so it does not log me out or enable the assistive technology.

I also have Gnome installed on the same system and it works fine there - I would just prefer I did not have to use Gnome :-/

~Jeff

At this point we are not ready to provide all the assistive technologies you would need. It is on our longer term work plan but right now I think you would be better off running Gnome. I wish there were a better answer. I will make an announcement when these features are ready for beta and maybe you will be able to help out at that time.

Marty Jack wrote:At this point we are not ready to provide all the assistive technologies you would need. It is on our longer term work plan but right now I think you would be better off running Gnome. I wish there were a better answer. I will make an announcement when these features are ready for beta and maybe you will be able to help out at that time.

Alrighty, the main feature I really need that it provides is a simulated right click when a user clicks and holds the left mouse button. I'll keep checking back for when this has been added to LXDE... Going from LXDE back to Gnome makes my whole system feel like it is dragging!

~Jeff

I've got some ideas for a desktop-independent click-simulator tool. If you (jeff91) could email me
at ericbohlman@gmail.com and leave your phone number (I'm also in the Chicago area) I'd like to run them past you (I'll summarize back to the forum).

Basic idea: program would be a tray icon running on a per-user basis (e.g. wouldn't have to run as system daemon). It would sit and monitor the left button. After the button's been held down for a configurable amount of time, it would grab the pointer and start showing various mode images in its icon; depending on configuration they could include right-click, middle-click, left drag, right drag, middle drag. If you release the button while one of them is being shown, the action will be performed (in the case of drags, you'd simpy move the pointer and click once to release the drag). Each mode would be shown for a configurable amount of time.

Dependencies would probably be PyGTK+ and possibly python-xlib (would requiring wxPython be a problem for anyone?).

Something similar to the program I mentioned in the previous reply is now available at http://clickity.sourceforge.net