SIMPLESTROKE(1) General Commands Manual SIMPLESTROKE(1) NAME simplestroke -- detect mouse gestures SYNOPSIS simplestroke DESCRIPTION simplestroke detects mouse gestures. There are twelve pre-defined mouse gestures you can choose from. With no arguments simplestroke starts in gesture detection mode. Draw your gesture and then confirm by clicking any mouse button. simplestroke reacts on the release of mouse buttons. This makes it possi- ble to start simplestroke from your window manager while pressing down a mouse button and start gesture analysis after releasing it. simplestroke prints the name of the detected gesture, if any. The output can then be used in a simple shell script to execute commands. GESTURES The following gestures are supported. The names are derived from the di- rection you would draw them in. ARROW GESTURES ArrowUp ^ ArrowDown v ArrowLeft < ArrowRight > STRAIGHT LINE GESTURES TopDown | (start at top) DownTop | LeftRight - (left to right) RightLeft - (right to left) DIAGONAL GESTURES TopLeftDown \ (start at top) TopRightDown / (start at top) DownLeftTop \ DownRightTop / Z GESTURES LeftZ RightZ SQUARE GESTURES SquareLeft ("clockwise" square) SquareRight ("counterclockwise" square) EXAMPLES The following examples assume that simplestroke.sh is the shell script you call simplestroke from: #!/bin/sh case $(simplestroke) in ArrowUp) ;; ArrowDown) ;; ArrowLeft) ;; ArrowRight) ;; TopDown) ;; DownTop) ;; LeftRight) ;; RightLeft) ;; TopLeftDown) ;; TopRightDown) ;; DownLeftTop) ;; DownRightTop) ;; LeftZ) ;; RightZ) ;; SquareLeft) ;; SquareRight) ;; *) exit 1 esac To start detection under i3 while holding down the 9th mouse button add this to your ~/.config/i3/config: bindsym --whole-window button9 exec simplestroke.sh The right mouse button can be determined via xev(1). For Sway add this to your ~/.config/sway/config: bindsym --whole-window BTN_EXTRA exec simplestroke.sh The right BTN_* values can be determined via libinput-debug-events(1). Hold the mouse button and after you are finished drawing your gesture, re- lease it. AUTHORS Tobias Kortkamp <tobik@FreeBSD.org> simplestroke is inspired and based on easystroke 0.6.0 written by Thomas Jaeger <https://github.com/thjaeger/easystroke>. FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly April 18, 2020 SIMPLESTROKE(1)
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