On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 04:43:36PM -0800, Matt Holland wrote: > Hey all, > > [sorry if this gets multiply posted... it seemed to bounce the first time] > > So, I'd like to have a simple program or script that makes X11 think > that it has received a sequence of keystrokes... at least, I think > that's what I want. The goal is to have a way to click on something to > switch from X11 to Aqua under Mac OS X (gasp! a little off-topic!). So > I need to make the machine believe that it has received a Cmd-Opt-A > sequence, and I believe that in this case that amounts to making X11 > believe that. > > The clicking part should be trivial, as I have a launcher-type that > deals with that. So... from what I can tell, it seems that this is a > job for XSendEvent in Xlib, but I'm not sure. Anyone know this stuff > well enough to tell me if I'm on the right track? Can you comment on > how much of a pain it would be to learn enough Xlib to do this? I'm a > sort of fair C programmer with not so much experience dealing with other > people's libraries.
Matt, I'd read up on AppleEvents and use them (perhaps from within an AppleScript script) to tell the Finder to bring itself to the foreground. That should do the trick... -Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
