[dev] dmenu fast grab

2011-03-19 Thread Rob
Not sure how useful this will be, but I altered dmenu so it can grab the X keyboard before reading input from stdin. It works well on my netbook, where occasionally dmenu_run can take up to a second to grab the keyboard, meaning I end up typing a load of jibberish into the focused window, expectin

Re: [dev] Re: How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

2011-03-19 Thread Anders Andersson
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote: > Personally, I completely disable the touchpad on any laptop I use whenever > possible.  Otherwise my wrists always unintentionally activate it. > > I don't think I've ever met a ThinkPad owner who didn't prefer the nipple > over a touch

Re: [dev] Re: How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

2011-03-19 Thread Benjamin R. Haskell
On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, pancake wrote: On 18/03/2011, at 18:42, Kurt H Maier wrote: I'll stick with thinkpads. The keyboards are nicer, I don't have to paw at a touchpad, [...] Paw at touchpad? What do 'paw' means? Paw is the word used for most animal's feet. Used as a verb, it implies tha

Re: [dev] Re: How do you cope with OSX? (if at all)

2011-03-19 Thread pancake
Inlined reply On 18/03/2011, at 18:42, Kurt H Maier wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:11 PM, pancake wrote: >> - power management not as good as in osx > > this can be tweaked, and osx has an extremely naive time-remaining > alogrithm. it frequently reported seven hours of life and then > cr