Re: FVWM: keyboard macros

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 08:50:06 -0500

Cyprian Laskowski <swagbelly_at_yahoo.com> writes:
> Greetings All,
>
> I'm a keyboard fanatic, and am wondering whether it
> would be possible to define little fvwm functions
> which would allow for dynamically binding a key to a
> sequence of fvwm commands during an fvwm session.
>
> Press F4 or something, fire
> up a whole bunch of keyboard (or mouse) events, (some
> of which it may pass to application programs, some of
> which it handles itself), then end the sequence with
> F5, and finally name the sequence Nonsense and bind F6
> to Nonsense for the remainder of the session. Of
> course it would be up to the user to make sure that
> the definition is sensible to repeat, but still, is it
> possible?

Fvwm (and any other window manager) never sees keystrokes
sent to applications.

For keyboard macro recording, you'd need something operating
at the X server level.

Currently there is no way to tell Fvwm to start recording
Fvwm keyboard events. Since it doesn't see all events, I'm
not sure such a feature would be useful.

> Which brings up a related question: can you have
> prefix keys in key bindings?

I think you are referring to repeat factors?

Fvwm binds actions to single keyboard events.

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Received on Thu Nov 16 2000 - 07:51:49 GMT

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