Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 21, 2012, at 04:17 PM, Michał Sawicz wrote: >$ ps aux | grep unity-2d % ps aux | grep unity-2d barry 3024 0.0 1.3 178948 26904 ?Sl 10:01 0:03 unity-2d-panel barry 3025 0.0 2.8 416760 57520 ?Sl 10:01 0:04 unity-2d-shell barry 4438 0.0 0.0 4368 8

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-21 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2012-03-21, śro o godzinie 15:13 +, Barry Warsaw pisze: > Another question. From a running, logged in system, what is the most > definitive way to tell whether you're running 2d or 3d? $ ps aux | grep unity-2d Should do. There are some visual differences, too, like the dash not "flowing

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-21 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 21, 2012, at 02:51 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: >just FYI, that change was not permanent... getting HUD quite often again. > >Is there anything interesting in the xev output I pasted? Another question. From a running, logged in system, what is the most definitive way to tell whether you're runn

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 20, 2012, at 03:16 PM, Michał Sawicz wrote: >No no, it's not that we treat every alt press under 500ms as an alt tap. >We only treat it as one _if_ no other key was pressed (thus, any >shortcut shouldn't ever trigger the HUD). Worst thing is none of us can >reproduce your issues... I wonde

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2012-03-20, wto o godzinie 14:59 +, Clint Byrum pisze: > I think 500ms is *way* too low a threshold, and a different heuristic > needs to be used to determine whether or not a user wants the HUD. I > alt-tab constantly, rapidly, and the HUD comes up every time unless I > hold down alt-tab

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 20, 2012, at 08:40 AM, Michał Sawicz wrote: >Dnia 2012-03-19, pon o godzinie 22:29 +, Barry Warsaw pisze: >> I guess the question is what "rapid" means. In Unity 2d, I can press >> the Alt key, hold it for a second or two, then release it, and it will >> invoke the HUD. On Unity 3d, t

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-20 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2012-03-19, pon o godzinie 22:29 +, Barry Warsaw pisze: > I guess the question is what "rapid" means. In Unity 2d, I can press > the Alt key, hold it for a second or two, then release it, and it will > invoke the HUD. On Unity 3d, this (i.e. a two second hold of ALT) > will not invoke th

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-19 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 19, 2012, at 02:46 PM, Gerry Boland wrote: >of course we don't want to push something that causes standard behaviours to >break. However in my and my team's testing, Alt+Tab works perfectly fine. HUD >only appears for a single rapid tap of the Alt key, Alt+anything else does >not show HUD.

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 06, 2012, at 12:56 PM, Vincent Ladeuil wrote: >@Barry: to work around modifiers being stealed ;) I've used different >ones via xmodmap, so I can use EmHcs with meta, hyper and super without >worrying about Alt. > >That's only a short term workaround though as I really want to try the >HUD:-

Re: [Bug 947468] Re: Alt summoning of heads-up-display interferes with Emacs

2012-03-05 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Mar 05, 2012, at 11:39 PM, Gerry Boland wrote: >Unity2D doesn't use those settings, they're Unity only. The Alt key is >hardcoded in unfortunately. This could be made a setting if enough people >want it. I advise opening a bug asking for the Alt key to be a dconf option, >and hopefully we'll ge