Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own)

Re:Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own) by grrdotcloud on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @01:41PM (#35617234)

I didn't click but thought "why would you want to log your mouse movements? Analyze them to what end? I suppose you could automate or infer something from the trails? Number of clicks? Keyboard to mouse frequency, time spent.

Then started working though the logging, insights while reading the comments.

Pressure sensitive mouse buttons may be helpful. Same with haptic feedback when dragging over heavier buttons.

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Re:Mouse Cursor History (and why I made my own) by Krutonium on Tuesday April 18, 2023 @03:08PM (#35618537)

I still own a Logitech iFeel mouse from the late 90's early 2000's. It's a heavier mouse that offers force feedback on the desktop, specifically as you move over icons and such. It also gave force feedback in games, such as Half Life.

Unfortunately on Windows the drivers havn't worked since probably XP, but on Linux I did figure out how to drive the motor, and wrote a PoC to get it working again. It'd need support from the DE and games to really be useful, though.

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