XMBIND(1)

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💖 xmbind — bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk: this is xmbind, a user command, and it's about to make your Motif apps' virtual key bindings do exactly what you want. slay.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

xmbind [options ]  [file ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so xmbind is an X Window System client, right? and what it does is configure the virtual key bindings for Motif applications. that's the whole job. iconic.

now here's the tea 🫖 — mwm already does this for you at its startup, so you only actually need the xmbind client when mwm is not in use, or when you wanna change your bindings without restarting mwm. main character energy: no reboot required 💅

  • if you hand it a file, bestie, its contents become your virtual key bindings. periodt.
  • if you don't hand it a file, it goes looking for .motifbind in the user's home directory 🏠
  • and if that file isn't found? no stress, xmbind just loads the default virtual key bindings, exactly as described in VirtualBindings(3).

🎀 Options 🎀

  • -display — this one specifies the display to use. that's it, that's the vibe. see X(1) for the deets ✨

VirtualBindings(3) and X(1). go read them, iykyk 📚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this little gem lives in the xmbind(user cmd) manual — that's the source/version tag, fr fr — and ngl there's no date stamp on it, so we're just gonna call it timeless 👑🦋 thank u for coming to my ted talk, mwah 💜

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