This is maybe not strictly an xmonad question, but maybe xmonad can be part of the solution... (I'm running xmonad-darcs) X has this concept of "mouse keys" that allow to move the mouse-cursor around with the keyboard. Unfortunately, they need to be enabled before they will work, even though I set xmodmap to make (mod?)-right-arrow move the cursor right! This can be done by pressing some weird key combination, which I have not figured out how to do reliably, and don't want to do that every time anyway. Apparently environments I don't use, like KDE, have ways to turn it on. Also there are some default keybindings for it that I would need to get rid of somehow, which doesn't look really easy. Ideally I wound like to add xmonad-mod-key + various other keys = control the cursor in various ways (including left,(middle,right)-clicking, would be nice) . Any ideas how to do this? (motivation: Compared to the keyboard, I don't like the trackpad on my laptop, as expected, and was never much of a fan of the mouse either, and never did get a trackball... but some programs need mouse-pointing! :) Speaking of which, I want to turn off tap-on-trackpad = click, and make it so that for a few moments near when I'm typing, the trackpad doesn't move the cursor either, but I haven't yet found ways to do these on Linux that I've gotten to work. I'm tempted to totally disable the trackpad if I can, if I get mouse keys to work well for me) Isaac