Mousetweaks
The dwell-click tool behind GNOME's hover click. The standalone project is archived, but the feature lives on in GNOME settings.
Our verdict
Say this part plainly. Mousetweaks as a separate program is archived. GNOME's own GitLab marks the repository read-only, which means no new work is going into it.
What it did has not gone anywhere. Hover click, also called dwell click, is a standard part of GNOME accessibility. You find it in Settings under Accessibility, then Pointing and Clicking, in the Click Assist section, and you can set how long the pointer has to stay still and how much drift is allowed before it stops counting as hovering. That is the feature people mean when they ask for this.
So the practical answer for a switcher is that clicking without pressing a button works on GNOME, out of the box, and you do not need to install this package by name. Nobody should read the archive notice as the feature being withdrawn.
On other desktops this is a question to ask specifically. Not every one of them offers dwell clicking, and where it exists the settings live somewhere else. Check it in a live USB session on the desktop you plan to use.
What's good
- The feature it provides is built into GNOME, so most people never install anything
- Clicking by holding the pointer still removes the need to press a button at all
- The delay and the movement it tolerates are both adjustable to suit your steadiness
- Free, and part of the desktop rather than an add-on to be maintained
What to know first
- The standalone project on GNOME's own GitLab is marked archived and read-only
- Nothing new is being accepted, so treat the separate program as finished rather than developing
- Outside GNOME, hover clicking is handled by whatever the desktop provides, if anything
- Dwell clicking takes practice and can fire by accident while you are reading
The details
- Cost
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-3.0)
- How you install it
- Built-in app store
Windows apps it can replace
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