Keyboard shortcut settings

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Tue Oct 14 23:14:17 CEST 2008


Vincent wrote:

> This is just some crazy thought with no idea what the resulting effect on
> performance would be, but how about a command that you could execute to do
> something to the currently focused window? That way, you could add keyboard
> shortcuts for those commands and manage the window manager keyboard
> shortcuts from there.

It's not a terrible idea, but I wonder about lag.  Every time you press 
a key, you have to fork a new process, which has to start itself up, do 
something like connect to d-bus, and send a command.  That's much slower 
than the WM just grabbing a key.

	-b




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