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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
I mean the old command navigator; I'm running both, so I get two menus. (One 40px, for friendly fingers, and the other (cmd-nav) packed closer.) But if you only want to run one, then you can certainly do it all in P-menu. (And you seem to be doing it right.)

xte is from Xautomation, I had thought I linked that previously. I'll go find it... [/url]http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18132&page=2]Here it is[/url]! Download the .tgz, extract it somewhere, and do what you like. I copied (as root, of course) the xte binary to /usr/bin or some such. You could probably also (if not running low on space, and scared like I was at the time) just 'make install' (root, again) from the xautomation-1.02 directory. I recommend that approach, but warn that I did not try it...

The xte command doesn't need to be run as root, and as you can see, that masks some feedback, so don't run as root unless needed...


As for "what xte is", well, it's a program that stuffs keystrokes (or other events) into an X server. I think you did know what it is, after all... Now you know how to get it.
You might be surprised how long it takes a newbie to do some of these things! But, I'm getting there!

At this point I have an xautomation folder (post-gunzipping-and-tarring) in my /usr/bin/ folder. I went into the folder in Xterm, as root, and tried doing this
Code:
 # ./configure
# make
# make install
but it said, after lots of other messages, that there was no acceptable C compiler in $PATH. Then I just tried
Code:
make install
but it said
Code:
/bin/sh: make: not found
So, now that I have the files untarred (or is it tarred?) in a folder in /usr/bin/, what might I do next to get to where xte is a meaningful command? (Thanks again.)
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