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From: davidb@Pacer.UUCP (David Barts)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Programming the keyboard
Keywords: X11R3, HP-UX, HP9000s300
Message-ID: <298@zircon.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 90 23:43:55 GMT
Organization: Pacer Corp., Bothell, WA
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I have been trying to figure out how to reprogram an arbitrary
key on the keyboard to an arbitrary character string in X11R3.

In X10, there was a program called keycomp(1) which you could use
to make an .Xkeymap file, but X11 doesn't have keycomp.

Of course, there is xmodmap(1), but all the documentation I have
on xmodmap seems to indicate that it is only useful for programming
a key to send an character, not a string.  I've experimented
with xmodmap, and this appears to be the case.

Surely X11 hasn't taken a step *backwards* in functionality from
X10, so how does one associate a string with a key?

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David Barts			Pacer Corporation
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