[FORK] Swinput can fake mouse and keyboard input using the Linux Input System.
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Swinput can fake mouse and keyboard input using the Linux Input System. The swinput modules read from a device and fake hardware events (mouse motions, keyboard input, etc). Swinput presents status on the proc filesystem. 1 Building and installing ======================================== tar zxvf swinput-0.x.x.tar.gz make make install (as root) If you are using devfs you are finished with building and installation. Otherwise you have to create the devices manually; ** You most likely don't need to exec the below commands ** mknod /dev/swmouse c 10 $(grep swmouse /proc/misc | awk '{print $1}') mknod /dev/swkeybd c 10 $(grep swkeybd /proc/misc | awk '{print $1}') make try inserts the modules (using sudo) make check runs the test scripts in test/ (using sudo) make dist builds a dist package (incl gpg sig) for upload 2 Mouse Usage ======================================== Load module with "modprobe swmouse" type "modinfo swmouse" to get a list of possible arguments. - You can define the maximum screen resolution using the "xmax" and "ymax" module-parameters. Use the "devs" parameter if you need more than one fake-mouse. Currently a maximum of 16 different fake-devices are supported. -Supress any syslog output by using "log=0". To see general messages use "log=1" and for full debugging output use "log=2" (please use "log=2" when reporting bugs) - By writing to /dev/swmouse0 you can fake 'mouse input'. The following syntax is used Option Interpretation --------- --------------------------------- u nr Moves the mouse up <nr> pixels d nr Moves the mouse down <nr> pixels l nr Moves the mouse left <nr> pixels r nr Moves the mouse right <nr> pixels 0 Moves to origin and resets stats 3 Keyboard Usage ======================================== Load module with "modprobe swkeybd" By writing to /dev/swkeybd you can fake 'keyboard input'. The following syntax is used Option Interpretation --------- --------------------------------- str The string 'str' is typed by the faked keyboard [Fx] The key Fx (e.g F2) is pressed. x can be 1-20 [BACKSPACE] Backspace is typed [ENTER] Enter is typed [SPACE] Space is typed [COMMA] , is typed [DOT] . is typed [LEFT] Left (arrow) key is typed [RIGHT] Right (arrow) key is typed [DOWN] Down (arrow) key is typed [UP] Up (arrow) key is typed 4 Usage staticstics ======================================== In the proc tree (/proc) you'll find usage statistics. 4.1 swmouse usage statistics ---------------------------------------- If you read /proc/swmouse (e.g. by typing cat /proc/swmouse) you get the following information: swmouseX:u:d:l:r:x:y where: X mouse-device u means the number of pixels we've moved up so far d means the number of pixels we've moved down so far l means the number of pixels we've moved left so far r means the number of pixels we've moved right so far x means the number of times we've moved to a fix x position y means the number of times we've moved to a fix y position You can zero the statistics counters by writing zero to the proc file (e.g echo "0" > /dev/swmouse) 4.2 swkeybd usage statistics ---------------------------------------- If you read /proc/swkeybd (e.g. by typing cat /proc/swkeybd) you get the following information: swkeybd:p:r:s_p:s_r where: p means the number of key presses so far r means the number of key releases so far s_p means the number of shift key presses so far s_r means the number of shift key releases so far You can set the statistics counters to zero by writing zero to the proc file (e.g echo "0" > /dev/swkeybd) 5 Examples ======================================== echo "u 10" > /dev/swmouse0 Moves the pointer up 10 pixels echo "d 123" > /dev/swmouse0 Moves the pointer down 123 pixels echo "ls -l [ENTER]" > /dev/swkeybd Types 'ls -l' followed by enter .. so you should see a file/dir listing if you have as your focus a terminal emulator or a console. 6 Bugs ======================================== Please report bugs at: https://github.com/jayschwa/swinput/issues or the original site: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=swinput
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