Control Mouse With Your Gamepad/Joystick

If you have gamepad /joystick you can you can use it to control mouse cursor.

To do this you need to install xserver-xorg-input-joystick

Open terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-input-joystick

Now log out and you can use your gamepad /joystick as a mouse

Now if you want to disable this function you can use this command

xinput --set-prop "DEVICE NAME" "Device Enabled" 0

to enable:

xinput --set-prop "DEVICE NAME" "Device Enabled" 1

To get the device name in terminal type:

 xinput list

For tutorial on how to setup joystick in Ubuntu are remaping joystick keys check this tutorial.