On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:04 PM, esbat mop <esbatmop@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I use my laptop. > I share my destop like A|B > In the left(A),this is my writing place. Maybe I opened a txt with gedit. > In the right(B),this is my reading place.Maybe I opened a pdf to read. > > When I was writing in A place. Sometime I should read something in B. And I > should move my mouse to B and scroll with mouse to see the whole paper (or > type the key pg up/pg dn) > > Can I set some key to control the B place when I work at A? > like this: > When I writing in gedit(A place) , I type pg up key(or up key or scroll the > mouse) , then pdf(in B place) moved. > > How can I use the different key to control different window at the same > time? This is the type of weird stuff you can do in Linux. The short answer is you combine http://kollerat.com/cms/index.php/Allgemein/Software/Control-VLC-via-global-hotkeys-xbindkeys-under-Linux.html with http://live.gnome.org/Accessibility/GetInvolved xbindkeys allows to run a special program when you press a specific key/key combination. The GNOME Accessibility API allows to send easily events to running programs. I do not have a link to sample code; if you can search a bit you should be able to find a small Python snippet that sends events to specific windows. As a hint, look at dogtail, https://fedorahosted.org/dogtail/ the software testing tool. It does what you want in terms of controlling an application in a comprehensive way. What you need to write is a small Python program, 'send_event_to_gedit.py', which would take as parameters 'pgup', 'pgdown', etc. Dogtail creates a special script to control applications; you run dogtail and you focus it on your gedit. Press PgUp/PgDown, etc and work your way from the instructions it creates for you. Hope this helps, Simos _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
