How to Simulate Left Mouse Click With Keyboard Shortcut in Ubuntu [Quick Tip]

By | November 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment

settings-no-left-mouse-clickThe Problem: I am a keyboard person. I love to use the keyboard to navigate through webpage and scroll up/down the content. It becomes a hassle when I have to shift my hand to the mouse every time I want to click a link or select an item.

The Solution: Need to bind a keyboard shortcut for the left mouse click, and probably move the cursor around.

Apparently, this is very easy in Ubuntu (probably in other Gnome based distro too). Many tutorials will tell you to install xbindkeys and go through complex steps to map the shortcut key.

Here is one quick and dirty way:
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MouseAway: Keep Your Mouse Cursor Out Of The Way

By | January 2, 2009 |

mouseawayMouseAway is a small application that detects the location of your mouse pointer and keyboard cursor and move the mouse away them if they are too close.

In most situation, when you use the mouse to change the keyboard cursor location, the mouse pointer always end up in the same position as the keyboard cursor and blocks your view. Most of the time, we have to move the mouse away so as to get a better view of the keyboard cursor. What MouseAway does is to check the proximity between the mouse and the keyboard cursor and move the mouse away if it is too near to the cursor. Nothing great, but useful and efficient task.

MouseAway is very small in size (~39kb) and only take up little resources. It runs quietly in the background and does not disrupt you in your work. It has been tested to work fom Windows 95 onward.