Bypassing hitting Enter under dosemu

Bypassing hitting Enter under dosemu

[Ralph Alvy]

How does one avoid having to hit Enter when loading dosemu in a console
session?

Re: Bypassing hitting Enter under dosemu

[Clarence Dang]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:24 am, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> How does one avoid having to hit Enter when loading dosemu in a console
> session?
>
Edit the "dosemu" script or (but I haven't tested this recently) create the 
file ~/.dosemu/stamp-dosemu.

Re: Bypassing hitting Enter under dosemu

[Ralph Alvy]

Clarence Dang wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:24 am, Ralph Alvy wrote:
>> How does one avoid having to hit Enter when loading dosemu in a console
>> session?
>>
> Edit the "dosemu" script or (but I haven't tested this recently) create
> the file ~/.dosemu/stamp-dosemu.

What exactly is the file stamp-dosemu? I have one in that directory, but
it's zero length.

DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Alain]

How can I avoid that keystrokes like <Alt+F2> or <Alt+F5> get 
interpreted by KDE in XDOSEMU?

The probem is that I need a lot of these hotkeys for NDN and my Editor 
and various popup windows keep getting in the way :(

I re-read the docs a few times, but I must have missed something...

thanks,
Alain

Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Ralph Alvy]

Alain wrote:

> How can I avoid that keystrokes like <Alt+F2> or <Alt+F5> get
> interpreted by KDE in XDOSEMU?
> 

Control Center
Regional and Accessibility
Keyboard Shortcuts

Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Alain]

Thanks Ralph and Andris,

This is the general approach that I had already used, but isn't there a 
configuration specific por DOSEMU or in KDE for a specific window?

I am using KDE 3.2, and will move to 3.3 only in +- 2 months when 
Mandrake 10.2 is out. (all my atempts to upgrade Kde/Kdevelop were a 
complete disaster)

Alain

Ralph Alvy escreveu:
> Alain wrote:
> 
> 
>>How can I avoid that keystrokes like <Alt+F2> or <Alt+F5> get
>>interpreted by KDE in XDOSEMU?
>>
> 
> 
> Control Center
> Regional and Accessibility
> Keyboard Shortcuts
> 
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Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Ralph Alvy]

If you find one, I'd love to know what it is. I would love to keep this to
specific windows too.

Alain wrote:

> Thanks Ralph and Andris,
> 
> This is the general approach that I had already used, but isn't there a
> configuration specific por DOSEMU or in KDE for a specific window?
> 
> I am using KDE 3.2, and will move to 3.3 only in +- 2 months when
> Mandrake 10.2 is out. (all my atempts to upgrade Kde/Kdevelop were a
> complete disaster)
> 
> Alain
> 
> Ralph Alvy escreveu:
>> Alain wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>How can I avoid that keystrokes like <Alt+F2> or <Alt+F5> get
>>>interpreted by KDE in XDOSEMU?
>>>
>> 
>> 
>> Control Center
>> Regional and Accessibility
>> Keyboard Shortcuts
>> 
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Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Alain wrote:
> This is the general approach that I had already used, but isn't there a 
> configuration specific por DOSEMU or in KDE for a specific window?
One thing you can do is to find
the line in X.c of dosemu sources:
#undef ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB
and change it to
#define ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB 1
Then when you enable the mouse grab,
the keyboard grab will also be enabled,
and so all the keyboard events will
be passed to the dosemu window
exclusively.
One may want to make it a dosemu.conf
option, as well as decouple from the
mouse grab - that shouldn't be too
difficult.

Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Ralph Alvy wrote:
> If you find one, I'd love to know what it is.
> I would love to keep this to specific windows too.
It looks like enabling the mouse grab
also enables the keyboard grab. So have
you tried simply pressing Ctrl-Alt-Home 
to make xdosemu to steal all the keystrokes
from your WM?

Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Ralph Alvy]

Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Ralph Alvy wrote:
>> If you find one, I'd love to know what it is.
>> I would love to keep this to specific windows too.
> It looks like enabling the mouse grab
> also enables the keyboard grab. So have
> you tried simply pressing Ctrl-Alt-Home
> to make xdosemu to steal all the keystrokes
> from your WM?

Ctrl-Alt-Home disables the mouse, once it move into the xdosemu window. But
the KDE keybindings are still in effect. So I must disable them in the KDE
settings page to keep them from affecting the xdosemu window.

Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Stas Sergeev]

Hello.

Ralph Alvy wrote:
> Ctrl-Alt-Home disables the mouse, once it move into the xdosemu window. 
> But the KDE keybindings are still in effect.
Does Ctrl-Alt-Home work any better if
you first change the
#undef ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB
to
#define ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB 1
in X.c of dosemu sources and
recompile?

Another thing to try is Ctrl-Alt-f
which will make dosemu to enter
fullscreen mode, where the KDE
keybindings should not be in effect
(no KDE here to try myself, sorry).

Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Ralph Alvy]

Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Ralph Alvy wrote:
>> Ctrl-Alt-Home disables the mouse, once it move into the xdosemu window.
>> But the KDE keybindings are still in effect.
> Does Ctrl-Alt-Home work any better if
> you first change the
> #undef ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB
> to
> #define ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB 1
> in X.c of dosemu sources and
> recompile?

Just tried that for you with 1.2.2 sources. I reset KDE to use Alt-F4 to
close a window (KDE default). With the above change to X.c, and
recompiling, Ctrl-Alt-Home disables the mouse and all KDE keybindings
successfully.

> Another thing to try is Ctrl-Alt-f
> which will make dosemu to enter
> fullscreen mode, where the KDE
> keybindings should not be in effect
> (no KDE here to try myself, sorry).

When I do this, KDE keybindings are disabled successfully, and, unlike the
other approach, the I can still use the mouse in that xdosemu session.

Re: DOS's hotkeys and KDE

[Ralph Alvy]

Stas Sergeev wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> Ralph Alvy wrote:
>> Ctrl-Alt-Home disables the mouse, once it move into the xdosemu window.
>> But the KDE keybindings are still in effect.
> Does Ctrl-Alt-Home work any better if
> you first change the
> #undef ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB
> to
> #define ENABLE_KEYBOARD_GRAB 1
> in X.c of dosemu sources and
> recompile?

Just tried that for you with 1.2.2 sources. With the above change to X.c,
and recompiling, Ctrl-Alt-Home disables the mouse and all KDE keybindings
successfully.

> Another thing to try is Ctrl-Alt-f
> which will make dosemu to enter
> fullscreen mode, where the KDE
> keybindings should not be in effect
> (no KDE here to try myself, sorry).
Stas Sergeev wrote:

When I do this, KDE keybindings are disabled successfully, and, unlike the
other approach, I can still use the mouse in that xdosemu session.

Re: Bypassing hitting Enter under dosemu

[Clarence Dang]

On Sunday 30 January 2005 18:33, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> Clarence Dang wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:24 am, Ralph Alvy wrote:
> >> How does one avoid having to hit Enter when loading dosemu in a console
> >> session?
> >
> > Edit the "dosemu" script or (but I haven't tested this recently) create
> > the file ~/.dosemu/stamp-dosemu.
>
> What exactly is the file stamp-dosemu? I have one in that directory, but
> it's zero length.
>
[yes, I am aware that my reply is 6 months later, sorry]

Hmm, actually, after the first time, you shouldn't need to hit Enter at all.  
The "dosemu" script prints this:

~~~~
   DOSEMU will run on _this_ terminal.
   To exit you need to execute 'exitemu' from within DOS,
   because <Ctrl>-C and 'exit' won't work!

   Now type ENTER to start DOSEMU or <Ctrl>C to cancel
~~~~

and creates "stamp-dosemu" the first time it runs.  Next time, it skips the 
message if it finds "stamp-dosemu".

So what exactly is being printed before you have to press Enter?  What version 
are you using?