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[facade47]

Ok, here's a couple of odd questions I've been wanting to ask for a while

1) Is it possible, through the command line, to send a key action? Like, if I for some reason wanted to tell the computer to do the action resulting from the keystrokes Super+C (which on my computer would pause/play the current song in amarok) ...

2) is there a way to tell the compiler (or the configure script) to use dev tools in a special folder whenever possible? For instance, I have a folder $HOME/dev and inside that folder I the folders bin, usr/bin, etc., could I tell the program to compile with its dependencies which are found in that folder? The reason I ask this is because I'm assuming that the compiled program will look for those dependency binaries in that folder, which is exactly what I want.

I hope my wording isn't too confusing

[Boo]

1) in the old /etc/inittab file you capture the ctl-alt-delete key sequence to give the system the shutdown command. this can be very dangerous and is the first thing you comment out on a server.
so you could put a key capture in there but the new boot stuff uses upstart and the rules/files/events are in /etc/event.d/.
you can create a new inittab file and it will be used but you are better off putting it in the appropriate file in /etc/event.d/.
there is a file in there called control-alt-delete so you could create your own.

2) you could modify the configure script to point to your areas directly. some path reordering may work but not if the configure script has hard coded paths to files.

[facade47]

Thanks for the reply, Boo =)

Unfortunately, your suggestion for (1) will not work because, looking into the file control-alt-delete, it looks like it basically says (on this keystroke){do this action}, which I can't do because I won't know what action is bound to the specific keystroke...

I haven't had a chance to try out your suggestion to #2 yet..

[facade47]

I found the answer to my first question, but it uses java instead of bash..

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import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

class Main {
   public static void main( String [] args ) throws AWTException {
      Robot robot = new Robot();
      robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_J);
      robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_J);
   }
}

This presses the "j" key.... now all I have to do is figure out how to set the focus to an external program