xbindkeys is a program that associates keys or mouse buttons to shell commands under X. After a little configuration, it can start many commands with the keyboard (e.g. control+alt+x starts an xterm) or with the mouse buttons.
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Correction of typos in the man page. An emphasis is made on the documentation about the Guile/Scheme configuration file (the preferred way for non-trivial configuration, and far more powerful than the default configuration file).