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Why XGrabKey generates extra focus-out and focus-in events?

Does anyone know an xlib function to trap a keypress event without losing the original focus? How to get rid of it? (or “to use XGrabKey() without generating Grab-style focusout”?) (or “How to get rid of NotifyGrab and NotifyUngrab focus events at system level?) The XGrabKey will lose focus …

Linux: Use parameter as file shortcut

Cheers everyone 🙂 I’m trying to make a linux script. This script shall be called with one parameter, a file stored in my home directory. I can’t seem to use So i have this variable $var1 and I want to save it in a file that does exist and its name is given in $1 Anyone help me please! Answer

Redirecting stdout with find -exec and without creating new shell

I have one script that only writes data to stdout. I need to run it for multiple files and generate a different output file for each input file and I was wondering how to use find -exec for that. So I basically tried several variants of this (I replaced the script by cat just for testability purposes): but co…

inputrc file cannot be loaded [closed]

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 10 years ago. Improve this question I just figured out we can create a ~/.inputrc file to define keyboard mappings. But I don’t …