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donniebreve / touchcursor-linux

TouchCursor style keyboard remapping for Linux.
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How to install touchcursor-linux #11

Closed AlienKevin closed 5 years ago

AlienKevin commented 5 years ago

Hi, I just switched from windows 10 to ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Could you please tell me where to clone the git repo and how the rest of "make" and "make install" work? I cloned touchcursor in home folder and run "make" and "make install" just fine but the program is not working. I then move the whole touchcursor folder to /usr/local. What should I do? Thanks a lot.

donniebreve commented 5 years ago

I am not sure if Ubuntu uses systemd, which is what I use to make this application run as a service. You should be able to clone the repo, then run make and make install to get the application in your command list (not sure if that is the right term). The program won't run at start up, but you can open a terminal and run touchcursor.

AlienKevin commented 5 years ago

I tried touchcursor but it's not working, here's the message: found device name in config error: please specify the keyboard device name in the configuration file

donniebreve commented 5 years ago

Make sure you update /etc/touchcursor/touchcursor.conf: https://github.com/donniebreve/touchcursor-linux/blob/master/touchcursor.conf

AlienKevin commented 5 years ago

Thank you so much. Touchcursor is working like a charm! Do you know a way to autoload touchcursor on startup? And is there a way to enable touchcursor for both my Bluetooth keyboard and laptop keyboard?

donniebreve commented 5 years ago

You have to make sure you are using systemd for it to start automatically. The make install command does all the necessary work to install as a service with systemd. If you can find an error message I may be able to help more.

Right now the app only captures one keyboard at a time, but I may look into adding that feature.

AlienKevin commented 5 years ago

Thanks for your help. Touchcursor-linux really saved my day because my brain is so used to those shortcuts from touchcursor in Windows.