xfce without a mouse

[Chris Murphy]

Hi,

So I have only a bluetooth mouse, and GNOME lets me navigate by
keyboard only to get to Settings well enough I can then pair with the
mouse. I can't figure out how to do this at all on xfce (granted this
is Fedora 20 because that's the build Intel is using for their CPU
diagnostic tool).

Any suggestions?

[Chris Murphy]

This is what I'm working on, for reference:
http://www.tcsscreening.com/files/users/IPDT_LiveUSB/index.html

OK so from CLI I figured out how to use bluetoothctl to power on
bluetooth, scan, pair, trust, then connect. That all worked, and I was
able to navigate... with a very spastic mouse arrow.

I can't find this IPDT anywhere, just an Install to HD icon. I click
on that and it's Anaconda. Apparently Intel's idea of doing a
diagnostic using Linux is to first install Linux rather than just run
the software from the live environment. As I flail the spastic mouse
arrow toward Quit, suddenly the screen status changes to the screen as
if I've clicked Begin Installation. I've entered no spokes. I've
picked no drives. I've given no permission to delete any existing
partitions.

No joke. Complete data loss on that drive.

Fortunately, all that was on the drive were a few Fedora ISOs, and new
installations of Fedora 23 Server and Workstation into separate Btrfs
subvolumes that had not been significantly customized.

And I still can't find the software... :-P The way this is described
in the URL above, is not how it behaves at all.

Chris Murphy

[Suvayu Ali]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 08:59:34PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> So I have only a bluetooth mouse, and GNOME lets me navigate by
> keyboard only to get to Settings well enough I can then pair with the
> mouse. I can't figure out how to do this at all on xfce (granted this
> is Fedora 20 because that's the build Intel is using for their CPU
> diagnostic tool).

The Alt+F2 run dialog should work.  If you don't remember the name of
the program, you can use down arrow to activate the XFCE menu and
search.  You might also have some luck with Alt+F1 and get the desktop
right click menu.  I have the standard applications menu in this desktop
context menu, I don't know whether that is the default though.

Once you have launched the desired application, it should be possible to
navigate with some combination of Alt, Shift, arrow keys, etc.

Hope this helps,