>>So, to make life interesting and things more simple, the plan is to gradually redo all three or four of these apps in python/Dabo.

>Under Wine are you running anything else which hooks keystrokes? ISTR at one time you were running an alternate shell such as Total Commander (?)

TC is a file manager, not a shell. I did run an alternate shell, the bbLean, but that was back then. Presently, VFP is the only thing I use that requires windowses.

>BTW "simpler" is simpler than "more simple" ;)

Our grandchildren here, being Americans, speak english among themselves, and one of them loves constructs like „more simpler“. Nobody bothers to rectify it :). If the kids introduce logic into english language, I won't stand in their way.