[ale] can I assign a program to a hotkey without a WM in X?

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Sat Apr 5 22:06:37 EST 2003


You could write a *very simple* window manager that can capture key
events for you.

 
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 19:28, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
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> Does anyone know if I can assign a button on my keyboard (one of the
> granny keys not a control key) to a start a program?  Specifically, I'd
> like to set the "CD" button to load gtcd.  I found the scancodes using
> `xev`, but I'm not sure what to do with them now.  All of the docs that
> I'm finding talk about how to set your WM events to keys; but I'm not
> running a window manager (It's odd, I know, but it's intentional)!
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
> 
> Much thanks,
> - -CB
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