Hi, Thanks for the reply. I tried system. It calls the code synchronously, and returns a number for success or failure of the command. Is there a way such that the stdout output of the command is returned as a string? Thanks again. Regards, Ishan On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Jon Wilson wrote: > Hi Ishan, > * There are guile bindings for gtk and for gnome; I don't know of any > other X11 bindings. > > * Try (system "ls -l"). Look it up in the POSIX section in the manual. > Regards, > Jon > > > Ishan Arora wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Is there a procedure to get mouse position. And is there a procedure to >> synchronously run a shell code and return the output as a String. Thanks. >> >> Regards, >> Ishan >> > >