My q key is gone from my keyboard.  I'm trying to assign ctrl-a  as a way to enter my q's, so from the bash promptecho q |xclip; xclip  -ooutputs a q..  but saving that to a script then executing it gets me nothing.  (If I can get that to work, I can use the windowmanager to assign ctrl-a to that script.)  Or will you just tell me to edit a dense X config file somewhere?
Using xclip as workaround for missing key on keyboard?
keyboard shortcuts;xclip