Mouse keys is a feature of some graphical user interfaces that uses the keyboard (especially numeric keypad) as a pointing device (usually replacing a mouse). Its roots lie in the earliest days of visual editors when line and column navigation was controlled with arrow keys (e.g., hjkl, ctl-esdx). Today, mouse keys, usually refers to the numeric keypad layout standardized with the introduction of the X Window System in 1984.
Read more about Mouse Keys: Layout, History, MouseKeysAccel, Enabling
Famous quotes containing the words mouse and/or keys:
“Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world? Why has man just these species of animals for his neighbors; as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice?”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“McCoy: That sharks been following us ever since the surgeon died, waiting for the burial. Couldnt I have a musket to shoot it, sir?
Fletcher Christian: Take the deck, McCoy. Ill get the keys to the arms chest.
McCoy: Get two muskets, sir. Id like to shoot that shark on board.”
—Talbot Jennings (18961985)