Playing with xbindkeys

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys
sudo apt-get install xautomation

xautomation is needed for xte

xbindkeys starts when the system starts. a reboot loads the new configuration out of .xbindkeysrc

It is supposed to be possible to kill and restart the xbindkeys dameon with:

killall xbindkeys && xbindkeys

Try it as non-priv on xterm?

Stop the daemom:

pkill -f xbindkeys

now the xbindkeys daemon has stopped.

from the xconsole type:

xbindkeys -n

The n means nodaemon. You can see xbindkeys errors when testing your .xbindkeysrc file.

The first mouse button (left) is called b:1, the second (right) b:2

xte can also be used to simulate mouse clicks. Below is an example.

"xte 'mouseclick 1' 'keydown Control_L' 'key v' 'keyup Control_L' 'key F2'"
b:2 + Release