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A related idea I had a while ago: I think it'd be cool if you could use a cell phone as a mouse. You'd have a mount that holds the back of the phone slightly o
by KerrickStaley 4y ago
A related idea I had a while ago:
I think it'd be cool if you could use a cell phone as a mouse. You'd have a mount that holds the back of the phone slightly off the table, and the phone would track its position using the IMU and maybe motion tracking with the camera. The phone display could show a subregion of the monitor and you could click by tapping the phone screen.
- themodelplumber 4y agoA little bit different but I hear the Sony VAIO VN-CX1 clearing its throat somewhere in the periphery...
- lordofgibbons 4y agoYou can already do this with KDE Connect on your phone. And you don't need to be running KDE for it to work on your desktop - it works with Gnome too.
- KerrickStaley 4y agoCould you give a link to docs on that? I visited https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ https://kdeconnect.kde.org/ but didn't see this feature mentioned.
- sudosysgen 4y agoI dont know if its in the docs but it definitely works (just tested it)
- pronoiac 4y agoI think it's treating the phone screen as a touchpad, not moving the phone like a mouse - https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Virtual_Input https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect#Virtual_Input
- kzrdude 4y agoDoes this include using the phone as a touchpad? That would be cool and useful.
- michaelmrose 4y agoYes it also does text input including special keys, multimedia controls, app specific controls like Netflix and support for windows and Linux.
- mhh__ 4y agoForget mouse, I want to use a phone as a computer. I think the only hardware you can buy for less than a thousand dollars with arm SVE support is a phone, would be nice to just boot into debian seamlessly and run a test suite.
- vorpalhex 4y ago"Unified Remote" for Android (paid, proprietary) works quite well for mouse control. No display sampling but it's not really needed.