Gopher360

If you're a gamer and prefer using console-specific equipment such as gamepads to the traditional keyboard and mouse, you might want to find a way to handle your computer directly from your controllers.

Fortunately, nowadays there's a wide variety of applications that can help you do so. One of them is Gopher360.

This application can help you turn your Xbox or PlayStation controller into a pointing device that also has basic keyboard functionality that you can use to control your computer without significant efforts.

The principle is quite simple, as you need to move the gamepad analogs to move the pointer and the buttons to click the "mouse." Some buttons also share keyboard functions, letting you use the "Backspace" or "F2" keys with ease.

As stated before, Gopher360 can also serve as a keyboard, since it provides you with basic keyboard functionality. There is a set of default controls that are assigned to various events on your computer. However, that doesn't mean you can't change them.

The default controls let you left-click, right-click, hide the terminal, scroll up or down, move your mouse, middle-click or adjust the cycle speed, and those are only mouse-related controls. As for the keyboard commands, you can hit the "Enter," "F2," "Space," "Winkey" and "Backspace" buttons, use arrow keys, refresh your browser and navigate to the next or previous item in your browser.

This application doesn't feature a standard Graphic User Interface (GUI), but comes with a Command Line Interface (CLI) instead. However, there is little you can do inside the window.

The app only needs to be launched and it will display a bunch of information on your screen, such as letting you know that the app wasn't launched with Administrator rights or guiding you into plugging the controller before starting.

Gopher360 is a lightweight, yet powerful app that lets you remap controls on your gamepad to emulate mouse- or keyboard-specific commands. It comes with a simplistic command line interface and requires no additional configuration.