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Subject: function key binding to strings under X11.3
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Date: 10 Jan 89 17:12:20 GMT
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Reply-To: bvsmith@lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
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Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley
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It seems that there is no way to define strings for the function
keys on a global scale (all clients connected to the server).

There is the Xlib function XRebindKeysym to rebind a keysym to a string,
but that is on an application-by-application basis.

What I want is a global binding, so that, for example, some function
keys have strings defined (e.g.) for vi, some for dbx, etc.

I have hacked xterm to read a .funkey file to do just that, but if anybody
knows of a more "correct" way to do this, I would be most pleased if
you could share that information.

The window manager, twm will allow binding of function keys (any key, 
actually) to FUNCTIONS or input to a shell, but not to a simple string.

Thanks.

Brian Smith
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley