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hotkey problem


Hi,

I'm trying to configure 'control+F1' to print out a string on my x-app.
I'm able to print out the string using Xautomation:

/usr/local/bin/xte "str LAHSO NOT AUTHORIZED"

And I'm able to run a script when I press 'Control+F1' using xbindkeys.

What I can't do is get the string to print when xbindkeys runs my script to issue the xte command above. I know that xbindkeys is running the script but for some reason the output from xte seems to go somewhere else because it's not showing up on my x-app!

I realise that these have nothing to do with Cygwin-Xfree but I wondered whether anyone had managed to set up hotkeys like this which would print out a string to their x-app when they pressed a certain key combination?

I know you can do something like this with xrdb and in your .Xdefaults have the entry:

xterm*VT100.Translations: \n\
Ctrl <Key>F1: string("LAHSO NOT AUTHORISED")

but the problem here is that the app we're using doesn't seem to speak xrdb and in any case the vendor refuses to tell us whether it has key mapping functionality like that with xterm above because they only support Exceed.

Anyway, would appreciate any help on this.

Thanks,

JS.

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