I spent the last week trying to get a Windows program to work in Zorin. The program is a dwell clicker - actually more. I have been using it for about 18 years and never found anything better. Obviously I would rather have something that runs natively in Zorin but (unless I find something better) I have no choice but run it in Bottles. It uses .Net Framework, so I would obviously add the .Net Dependency.....or so I thought. After many attempts I installed the .Net package from the Zorin store and retried. The program works more than before but does not quite work. If I add the .Net dependency, it stops working. I asked the developer if a Linux package is in the works but definitely no. Does anybody have any suggestion ?
Maybe you can take a look a this option supported by linux
please look in
settings > accessibility > pointing and clicking
within this window at the bottom is
hover click settings
maybe that will be of use
best of luck Steve ..
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Thanks.....this one looks promising and it is multi platform, so for now I am trying it out on Windows.
I already looked at it but the features and they are way too lacking. Thanks anyway.
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I have decided that this dwell-clicker would do nicely for me. I have been using it in Windows (it is available for various platforms). I followed carefully the instructions : uploaded the .deb file, went to terminal, changed to /Dowloads, made sure the dwellpy-0.12.2-linux-debian-x64.deb is there and typed "sudo dpkg -i dwellpy-0.12.-linux-debian-x64.deb" but then press enter and I get an error telling me it can't find the file. It is there and used dir to make sure. I also tried clicking on the .deb file.....there is some activity but then tells me the file is not there. Does anybody have any idea of what is wrong ?
most of the time i belive on a .deb file all you have to do is just click the file and it will start install....i may be wrong tho
Tried that....it says "installing", then same result - it cannot find the file....
hmm...intresting ok ill have to look up this clicker your trying to install
show me the result of ls in you download folder
Did you enter
sudo dpkg -i dwellpy-0.12.2-linux-debian-x64.deb
There are two digits with 2 in the filename.
But I'm wondering why doubleclicking on the file has not worked. I'll take a look on this problem later.
Edit: I installed the program in a Zorin 18.1 Core live session by doubleclicking on the .deb file, and the installation worked. But I have to find out how to launch the program. There are error messages shown (e.g. "Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."):
The program is shown in the start menu after installing xcb, but it doesn´t open. I'm not sure how to use it.
Edit2: I installed libxcb-cursor0
sudo apt install libxcb-cursor0
and now there is shown a toolbar, but I don´t know how to use it. When I hover with the mouse over the buttons and wait or click on the icons I often get errors and nothing happens, but I've never used such a program before, perhaps I make something wrong.
I read that this program only supports X11, Wayland support coming soon. So please switch to Xorg at loginscreen if you are running Wayland.
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I tried the older version 0.11.0 of dwellpy now, and that one seems to work better.
When I hover with the cursor over the toolbar and wait the icons are activated.
Hm..., the versions 0.12.0 and 0.12.1 also seem to work.
I installed the version 0.12.2 again and now it works. Perhaps it was required to have the missing dependencies installed first. Everything fine - I think.
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To all the answers : thank you all for answering - will try the older versions this afternoon as Zorin is on my other computer. I find it rather strange that in my case it does not even find the .deb file. Also, it's strange nobody else had problems. I will try again this afternoon and take screenshots.
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You can try the latest version.
Switch to Xorg.
Install xcb and libxcb-cursor0 in terminal first
sudo apt install xcb libxcb-cursor0
(if you already have those packages, that doesn't matter, then they won't get installed)
then doubleclick on the downloaded .deb file in your Downloads folder to install the program.
Logout and login again. Now you find dwellpy in your start menu and can launch it.
Move with the mouse over the first red icon on the left side in the toolbar of dwellpy and wait to turn dwellpy on. It will change the color to green. Now you can use it.
Perhaps it helps to remove your file and download it again if there is still shown that it doesn't exist.
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You 3 choices, your deb file was not downloaded, or your command line is wrong, or you launch your command line in the wrong folder
Very strange.'.....I tried again and it worked. It says it encountered an
error but the only error I found is when I set my preferences (dwell time, enable widgets, etc) they get reset to defaults when I reboot. Obviously it is extremely annoying. Also, further up you mentioned Wayland/X11....what is it exactly and is there a keyboard shortcut as I don't have use of mouse until OS is started. How can I find out what I have ?
xcb and libxcb-cursor0 are for X11
If you want to switch to X11 and see if prefs are stored and not reset follow that:
Logout and at the boton left on the logon screen you can switch to Zorin Desktop, you will be on X11 after. Try and say us if it's better
Interesting....unfortunately I can use the mouse only after the OS has fully loaded.