Re: [dev] dmenu fast grab

2011-05-08 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, I decided this is probably the simplest solution to the 'grabbing problem' we'll get at this point, so I've applied a slight modification of your patch to tip. Thanks, cls

Re: [dev] dmenu fast grab

2011-04-26 Thread Rob
On 23 April 2011 14:11, Ciprian Dorin Craciun wrote: >    I've tried to apply the attached patch (and the one on the dmenu > web-site) with both patch and git-apply, and they've both complained: > >    Am I missing something? Don't think so, I must've bodged the patch, give this a try. Cheers, R

Re: [dev] dmenu fast grab

2011-04-23 Thread Ciprian Dorin Craciun
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:24, Rob wrote: > 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

Re: [dev] dmenu fast grab

2011-03-20 Thread Rob
> Yeah, I've found that annoying before. The only problem it has is if > stdin is dependent on tty input everything locks up. The '-f' flag may > be a solution, so long as it's treated with fear. Probably should've added something to the patch for that, actually. Guess one could check if stdin was

Re: [dev] dmenu fast grab

2011-03-20 Thread Connor Lane Smith
Hey, On 20 March 2011 04:24, Rob wrote: > 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

[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