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maacruz	2011-09-05 , 20:33
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Originally Posted by Addison

I'm not seeing what I'm doing wrong on this.

I launch this just once in the beginning. It's the bottom keyboard that will always remain on the screen.
xkbd -geometry +65520+65992 -k /media/mmc2/N800/Keyboards/Med.xkbd & PID1=$! & filterm ascii-ascii cp437-utf8 tf

When pressing the fullscreen key, it brings up the big keyboard.
xkbd -geometry +65507+65536 -k /media/mmc2/N800/Keyboards/Full.xkbd & PID2=$!

When I press Enter on that big keyboard, it executes this.
kill $PID2
xte 'keydown KP_Enter' 'keyup KP_Enter'

It's not killing the big keyboard though.

From what you told me, this should be correct.

Probably because each is a different script. Environment variables are local, so they are lost when the script finishes and the next script can't read $PID1. Use a file to store and read the PID
Something like:

Code:

#launch script
xkbd -geometry +65507+65536 -k /media/mmc2/N800/Keyboards/Full.xkbd &
echo $! >/tmp/xkbd2.pid

#kill script
kill $(cat /tmp/xkbd2.pid)
xte 'keydown KP_Enter' 'keyup KP_Enter'

Last edited by maacruz; 2011-09-06 at 19:05. Reason: Fixed typo

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