X-application for sending keystrokes, xse?

Igor Robul igorr at speechpro.com
Wed Oct 12 02:01:30 PDT 2005


guru at Sisis.de wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've some X-application (only in binary form) written in
>Java which presents the official Spanish dictionary; having
>it up&running it says about itself the below attached 'xprop'
>output and if someone wants to see a small screen shoot it is
>here: http://www.sisis.de/~guru/drae.jpg
>
>In the small input field one can type Spanish words and the
>X-application presents the page from the dictionary for the word;
>
>my idea is to connect this to my editor 'vi' with a small
>key macro to send over the actual word where the cursor is to this
>application as it was typed in in the input field; like this:
>
>map <F8> "xywo<ESC>"xp:.,.w !xsendkeys `cat` > /dev/null 2>/dev/null ; ^Mu"
>
>Is there some 'xsendkeys' in FreeBSD which can send the keys 'hablar'
>to the X-application calling
>  
>
http://pag.csail.mit.edu/~adonovan/hacks/xsendkey.c



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