From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bastian Beischer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: windowmanager binding for emacs? 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I've used it successfully for this purpose in the past. Cheers Bastian On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 10:12 AM, wrote: > I would like to bind, for example, a window manager key such as super-x, > to start a little emacs frame where I can then issue emacs commands. > > I tried by creating a custom gnome binding for super-x, but I got > confused by the gnome gui, and at any rate I would like a method that > works the same across xfce, lxde and gnome, if possible. > > Surely somebody has already achieved this. Does anyone have any > pointers? > > The thing I want to achieve is having a local emacs on each client > machine I use that will perform commands locally. I want this feature > available on a wm global key so it will always work regardless of which > other terminal program I'm using at the moment, such as x2go etc. > > -- > Joakim Verona > > > -- Bastian Beischer RWTH Aachen University of Technology @RWTH Aachen Office: 28 C 203 Phone: +49-241-80-27205 E-mail: beischer@physik.rwth-aachen.de Address: I. Physikalisches Institut B, Sommerfeldstr. 14, D-52074 Aachen @CERN Office: Bdg 32-4-B12 Phone: +41-22-76-75750 E-mail: bastian.beischer@cern.ch Address: CERN, CH-1211 Geneve 23