Bug#381371: libgpmg1-dev: "MoveMouse" function

[Samuel Thibault]

Package: libgpmg1-dev
Version: 1.19.6-22
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

A MoveMouse function, which overrides the current mouse position by
given (X,Y) coordinates, would be helpful in some situations.

Just for instance, when a non-sighted user (using a screen reader
like brltty) and a sighted user work together, they sometimes want
to show something on the screen one to the other, and for this the
mouse can be a great thing: the sighted user can just move the mouse
somewhere on the screen, and the screen reader then shows that part
to the non-sighted user (this is already working in brltty), and the
converse: the non-sighted user can tell his screen reader to have gpm
moving the current mouse position to somewhere on the screen, which the
sighted user would then see.

Regards,
Samuel

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages libgpmg1-dev depends on:
ii  libc6-dev [libc-dev]          2.3.6-16   GNU C Library: Development Librari
ii  libgpmg1                      1.19.6-22  General Purpose Mouse - shared lib

libgpmg1-dev recommends no packages.

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