you might want to look into testing (QC) tools that enable you to
record X events, I do nopt have experience with such tools in unix, I
know such tools exist, not sure if there are any free ones.
erik
Dan Espen wrote:
>
> 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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