trying to avoid a segfault

[Al Joslin]

Hello All,

        xbindkeys is doing everything I need it to do at the cmdLine but I am 
having trouble getting it to work programmatically (as root, on the system in 
question)

        I have a touch-screen kiosk (running CentOS 7) that has to “idle” with 
a full-screen video and then switch back to “active” mode when touched

        Calling xbindkeys this way works from a shell that was logged in with 
XWindows forwarding turned on

DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/xbindkeys -f /usr/local/pss/mplayer_xbindkeys.rc


        The .rc file is fairly simple (even a little overblown because I don’t 
know yet which buttons correspond to single or multi-touch)

"mplayer_idle_stop.sh"
  b:1 + Release

"mplayer_idle_stop.sh"
  b:2 + Release

"mplayer_idle_stop.sh"
  b:3 + Release

"mplayer_idle_stop.sh"
  b:4 + Release


        The error I get when running the above command from the same script 
that is launching mplayer is:

Dec 19 11:00:24 sg2 kernel: xbindkeys[28518]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f53da4a491c 
sp 00007ffca96e0ab8 error 4 in libc-2.17.so[7f53da342000+1c3000]


        I believe that there are XWindows environment variables, or perhaps 
even more than that which I am missing in my programmatic invocation 

        My logged in shell (where the command works) has an env variable 
XDG_SESSION_ID=8214 

        That is saying to me that I’ve got to get some kind of additional 
connection to the XWindows environment, or maybe the HID module?  

        Furthermore, (for whatever reason) we are running: Xorg X Server Build 
1.20.4 , X windows protocol 11,version 0. No windows manager (just straight 
xinit)
        
        
        ?? If anyone can suggest how I might keep xbindkeys from segfaulting 
I’d sure appreciate the help !!
        
        And, I need to do all of this from the shell 

Thanks everyone, for your time and attention
Al;

        Two Additional Bits of Info from the logged in prompt that supports my 
cmdLine invocation of xbindkeys:

        `wmctrl -m` responds with:

Name: N/A
Class: N/A
PID: N/A
Window manager's "showing the desktop" mode: N/A

        `ps aux | grep X` comes back with :

root     21331  5.0  2.3 342368 78276 tty4     S<sl+ Dec19  56:58 X :0 
-allowMouseOpenFail