Mouse movement X or Y, or speed, with Mod keys as Trigger?

[peternlewis]

Keyboard Maestro and Quickeys are very different in how they solve problems.

Quickeys prefers monolithic actions, where as Keyboard Maestro prefers orthogonality. See:

Is it really that hard?

Keyboard Maestro and QuicKeys are very different, and can be a bit jarring initially, but I frequently get the comment along the lines of “Why didn’t I switch sooner”. Please read the wiki page on transitioning from QuicKeys for some tips, and also read the Quick Start (menu Help -> Quick Start) to understand the different parts that make up Keyboard Maestro and how they work together, as well as to become familiar with the terminology used in Keyboard Maestro. Keyboard Maestro has a very diff…

for more of a discussion on this.

So in Keyboard Maestro, if you want to move the mouse at a certain speed, that is not an option Keyboard Maestro has, but you can do it yourself manually using a For Each or Repeat loop as I described to you earlier:

Mouse Dragging Speed

The Set Action Delay action will let you set the delays involved in the dragging, but that will not slow the drag down per-se. You can extend @Tom’s idea of holding the mouse down and then moving with multiple actions before releasing the mouse. For example, something like: Click and Hold Mouse For N in Number Range 0…10 Move Mouse 1172 + (1260-1172)/10 * N, 683 + (742-683)/10 * N Pause Pause Release At the end of the day it depends on the behaviour of the target application.

Its not impossible that I will add some option to the move mouse action to specify steps or some such, but it is quite unlikely - it is very rarely needed and there is already a viable solution for those cases that are needed.

You can use a modifier key as a trigger using the USB Device Key trigger, assuming the device is not exclusively held by its driver.