Re: binding keys to shell commands in X11/quartz-wm?
Re: binding keys to shell commands in X11/quartz-wm?
- Subject: Re: binding keys to shell commands in X11/quartz-wm?
- From: Evan de Riel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:57:10 -0500
On Friday, Feb 28, 2003, at 01:03 America/Indianapolis, Peskin Brandon
(email@hidden) wrote:
I know there's apple employees lurking out there so feel free to chime
in if this is a ``planned'' feature with something of a medium-to-high
priority.
Is there (or will there be?) a way to bind keys to the commands you
place under the ``Applications'' menu on the quartz window manager?
I'd like to be able to, for example, press F1 and have it run an xterm
-bg black -fg white -sb [...], or press F12
and have it run xload, or emacs, or whatever I choose.
Forgive my ignorance, but is there a way to do this within X11 itself
without relying on the window manager to support this function?
I don't know about using function keys, but X11.app reads the
NSUserKeyEquivalents default, and this will work with the Applications
menu.
For example, if I have an item in my Applications menu called "Xterm"
(regardless of what the menu item actually does), I can call it with
command-x if I can go to the command line and type:
defaults write com.apple.x11 NSUserKeyEquivalents '{"Xterm" = "@x";}'
@ there stands for the command key. ~ is the option key, $ the shift
key, and ^ the control key. You can probably find a more complete
guide to using the NSUserKeyEquivalents preference by browsing online.
Evan R de Riel.
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