Re: Dosemu, Linux, XyWrite -- another clipboard kludge

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Hi Bob, re


When I first started to play
with Linux, I looked at Gnome and rejected it for a bunch of reasons,
including the fact that it didn't allow me to launch programs by
keyboard. I went to KDE and stayed with it because it gave me more
flexibility and more configuration options. If you launch KDE-desktop I
am sure you will be able to do what I'm doing: just run the Menu Editor
program to create the shortcuts as I described in my earlier
email.


It turns out there is a way to specify custom key shortcuts in Gnome, but
it's more complicated. You have to run the gconf-editor
(http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-keyboard-shortcuts-in-gnome/; eudora="autourl">
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-create-keyboard-shortcuts-in-gnome/
,  for starter info). I used to prefer kde but
developed an aversion to a penguin sitting on the panel bar; this'll
teach me.


That the macro works for you in
a terminal window is a great sign. That it doesn't work from a Gnome
launcher suggests that there is an option there that still needs to be
set. In KDE you have to tell the shortcut to "run in terminal"
to work...


"Run in terminal" I've got; I've also found that I can run it
as an application if I run gnome-terminal and pipe the macro command to
the terminal. I've had more success with the latter, *if* pasting the
wrong text is an improvement over pasting no text.


I have also found
that in some cases, to get a command to work in a shortcut you have to
put the command or part of it in single quotes. I don't think that
applies here, but it is worth trying.


It is worth trying, and I will. My copy and append scripts work fine, so
I can go back to banging my head on macros.


I need to find the right sort of semi-idiot's guide to this sort of
thing.


Paul


Paul Lagasse

PO Box 144

Kemblesville, PA 19347

pglagasse@xxxxxxxx


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