To Start Assistive Technologies at Login

If you load the keymouselistener and dwellmouselistener GtkModules in the GDM configuration file, you can assign user actions to launch specific assistive technologies at login time. These user actions are called gestures. The gesture associations are contained in the following GDM configuration files:

  • /etc/X11/gdm/modules/AccessKeyMouseEvents
  • /etc/X11/gdm/modules/AccessDwellMouseEvents

If you modify these files, you must restart your system before the changes take effect.

The following sections contain examples of the gestures that you can add to the GDM configuration files.

The gestures must be contained in a single line in the AccessKeyMouseEvents file without line breaks. The formatting of this guide might display the examples in the following sections over two lines.