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by **Mike Khali** » Mon, 08 Feb 1999 04:00:00

I'm currious if there exists a way to make a keyboard shortcut under kwm to
pop up an application. For example, I tend to set the windows keys on most
keyboards to pop up an rxvt (keys should not be wasted, and it saves time).
kwm seems to allow keyboard shortcuts for a number of operations within the
wm, but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to create a keyboard
shortcut to pop up external apps. Did I miss something?

by **Melchior FRAN** » Mon, 08 Feb 1999 04:00:00

> I'm currious if there exists a way to make a keyboard shortcut under kwm to
> pop up an application. For example, I tend to set the windows keys on most
> keyboards to pop up an rxvt (keys should not be wasted, and it saves time).
> kwm seems to allow keyboard shortcuts for a number of operations within the
> wm, but I can't seem to find any documentation on how to create a keyboard
> shortcut to pop up external apps. Did I miss something?

I've been told that you can change the Xmodmap to raise
the respective signals that some GUI's/Window Managers
are able to deal with. However, I couln't figure out
how to do this under KDE. So I wrote a little programm
that is intended to assign system commands to the M$ wintendo keys.

<http://unet.univie.ac.at/~a8603365/xwinkeys.tar.gz>

The command line
xwinkeys -w "kvt &" -m "kppp -q -c AccountName &"
lets the menu key become a `connect' key and the windows keys
launch a KDE terminal.

M.

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