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Skaperen

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keyboard input processing

can Xfce intercept keyboard input and either carry out a specific action or modify the input?

ToZ

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Re: keyboard input processing

Can you be more specific about what you are asking for? Possibly an example...

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CwF

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Re: keyboard input processing

Look at things like xbindkeys and xautomation

Skaperen

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Re: keyboard input processing

Can you be more specific about what you are asking for? Possibly an example...

i want to make some keys, or key combinations, do some specific things, like:
    1. Ctrl+Fn+f launches the firefox web browser.
    2. a double tap of Shift will cause the next character, if it is alphabetic, to be capitalized without this happening to any more.
i did see a way to make some keys do certain things, but it was rather limited.

Skaperen

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Re: keyboard input processing

Look at things like xbindkeys and xautomation

it looks like a useful way to capture keypresses and run a script.  next i would like to have a way to input keypresses.  i would like to have a double press of the Shift key capitalize the next character only, if it is alphabetic.

alcornoqui

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Re: keyboard input processing

    1. Ctrl+Fn+f launches the firefox web browser.

You can edit the shortcuts in Settings > Keyboard > Application Shortcuts tab. Although I'm not sure if it'll recognize the Fn key.

    2. a double tap of Shift will cause the next character, if it is alphabetic, to be capitalized without this happening to any more.
i did see a way to make some keys do certain things, but it was rather limited.

For this I've only found a couple of SO questions: One recommending to look into X Keyboard extensions, and other using an Autokey script.

Hope it helps.

Skaperen

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Re: keyboard input processing

for 2. i was originally thinking of doing it as a kernel module.  i am expecting that the double tap is going to need some code added somewhere because it is new kind of logic although i did this ages ago in a terminal emulator i wrote.  as an alternative, maybe some new key can be made to do it.