Perfect. Thanks, both.

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:33 PM, ALAN BROOKER <alan.brooker2010@gmail.com> wrote:
perhaps try [shell] object (ggee lib I think)

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:21 AM, James Mckernon <jmckernon@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know if there is a simple way to run an outside command from
> inside pure data on linux? I'd really like it if I could just click a button
> from within pd to run 'xset -r' and 'xset r' to turn keyboard repeat off and
> on again respectively.
>
> Thanks!
> James
>
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