I ran across this tool a while ago, but I hadn’t had the opportunity to try it out. It is called dualscreen-mouse-utils, and the thing that I want to use it for is to create a way to switch between my monitors with a remote control button. Here are some links to start with:
So, my first attempt was to download the compressed file, extract it, and try to compile. I got a slew of errors, the first of which, was:
mouse-wrapscreen.c:63:22: error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
I did a little research and found this post:
It said to install this package:
sudo apt-get install xlibs-dev
But, the package didn’t exist. I received this error:
E: Package xlibs-dev has no installation candidate
A quick search revealed this package that did install successfully:
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
Then, it compiled cleanly with the “make” command.
I just tested it and it worked! Next step is to setup a script to make it do a couple more things and add that to my lirc configuration. I’ll save that for another post!
Shot in the dark, but do you happen to still have dsmu? I’ve been looking far and wide and all the original links and mirrors are dead.