Re: Command to make ratpoison press down-arrow.

Shawn Betts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.ratpoison.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:06 AM, <jbaber-p/sUDoRFkCz2fBVCVOL8/[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, all,
>
>  I've found it nice to make little macros by having ratpoison move the
> mouse around and click on things.  If I want it to type some text, I've
> tried messing with putsel and getsel, but that doesn't work for special
> characters like down-arrow or esc.

It would be easy to add a command that sends a key event using Xtest,
which is what rp uses for the mouse warping/buttons. Right now I don't
think you can do it without an external program.

-Shawn
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