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One Week: No Mouse, Just Keyboard

Posted by timothy on from the trackball-also-off-the-table dept.

jfruhlinger writes "Anyone in tech has heard from grousing old-timers who believe the GUI was the beginning of the end of civilization and that EMacs keyboard shortcuts are all the interface anyone should need. But can someone use a modern consumer OS without laying hands on a mouse? Kevin Purdy gave it a week-long try."

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  1. Re:Windows? by Volanin · · Score: 4, Informative

    I liked the Amiga's solution: Holding down one of the Amiga keyboard buttons turned the cursor keys into a virtual mouse.

    In Linux you can press SHIFT + NUMLOCK.
    This toggles numpad-keys-as-virtual-mouse behaviour.

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