Re: windowmanager binding for emacs?

[Bastian Beischer]

Hello Joakim,

I think xbindkeys should do what you want. I've used it successfully for
this purpose in the past.

Cheers
Bastian

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM, <joakim@verona.se> wrote:

> I would like to bind, for example, a window manager key such as super-x,
> to start a little emacs frame where I can then issue emacs commands.
>
> I tried by creating a custom gnome binding for super-x, but I got
> confused by the gnome gui, and at any rate I would like a method that
> works the same across xfce, lxde and gnome, if possible.
>
> Surely somebody has already achieved this. Does anyone have any
> pointers?
>
> The thing I want to achieve is having a local emacs on each client
> machine I use that will perform commands locally. I want this feature
> available on a wm global key so it will always work regardless of which
> other terminal program I'm using at the moment, such as x2go etc.
>
> --
> Joakim Verona
>
>
>


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