tying a text string to a keystroke combination in gnome
 

Is there a way to tie a text string to a keystroke under gnome (a simple macro)?

For example, I want to press ctrl+f10 and gnome will paste "abc" into the current window.

The software centre shows pnee & xnee, which seem like an overkill. Is there something simpler (for gnome) doing what I need?

TIA

Use exo-open --launch in a /usr/bin/script, and use 'key bindings' to define the keys.

thanks, but isnt exo-* a lib for xfce? Im using gnome (the default on debian stable)