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

[Bob Zimmerman zimmerman@xxxxxxxx]

From: Paul Lagasse 
>I don't have the flexibilty to assign keys to invoke a launcher, as far as I
>can tell (it's not an obvious option in the desktop keyboard mapping utility).
>At least not in the Gnome desktop (Ubuntu); I have also installed the KDE
>desktop (Kubuntu) and can boot into that as an option; don't yet know if I can
>do what you're doing if I use the KDE desktop.

Hi Paul,

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.

>And what I've learned is this: if I type the command to run doscopy.macro in a
>terminal window and hit enter, it runs perfectly (albeit slowly, since I slowed
>it down to make sure it was working). The same command line, assigned to a
>launcher and run as an application in a terminal (and invoking the exact same
>macro, with the delays still in there) doesn't work....

I had similar problems with Xmacro when I first tried it. After spending a day with it without
success I gave up on it for two weeks, then tried again and got it to work. 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. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Gnome to offer any
help.

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.

Bob
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