Hi, I've seen a program for doin that stuff, hotkeys on freshmeat, but there is also an debian package in de testing / unstable. But does someone know a program for doing this stuff under console ? ;-)
grtz Peter Durieux On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:12:55 -0400 > From: Noah L. Meyerhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian User List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > Subject: Re: Can extra keyboard keys execute shell commands? > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 04:40:47PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just curious .... anyway that I can assign a key on my keyboard (I > > already know how to name and map the keys) to execute a command? > > If you want tu know, I'm know using XFree86 4.0.2 and > > Window Maker > > Yup. The easiest way I know to do it is to have your window manger > handle it. That's because it's already listening to all the keyboard > events that come in from the X server. It is possible that there are > other, WM independent programs out there to do it, but I don't know of > them. > > In any case, you will need to edit your Window Maker menu. That's made > a bit difficult (impossible?) if you're running the Debian generated > menus. If you're not, the the following (taken from > ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/menu) will help: > > * Syntax is: > * > * <Title> [SHORTCUT <Shortcut>] <Command> <Parameters> > * > * <Title> is any string to be used as title. Must be enclosed with " if > it > * has spaces > * > * SHORTCUT specifies a shortcut for that item. <Shortcut> has the > * same syntax of the shortcuts key options in the > * $HOME/GNUstep/Defaults/WindowMaker file, such as RootMenuKey or > MiniaturizeKe > y. > > I've got a MS Natural Pro keyboard with "Internet keys". Using the > Window Maker shortcuts I've set up the "Sleep" key to run xlock, another > key to hide all the windows except that which currently has focus, and > another to unhide all windows. I've still got several more keys, but I > don't know what to do with them. 8^) > > HTH, > noah > > -- > _______________________________________________________ > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > >