[3ddesktop-dev] Re: Keybindings and multiple instances

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:52:58AM -0400, Michael F. Wright wrote:
> Secondly, I'm having issues with 3ddesk when it's bound to a key in
> sawfish. If I run 3ddesk from the command line, I have no problem. If I
> bind it to a key in sawfish, it runs twice! It runs once, and I select a
> desktop. As soon as it gets back to a desktop, it runs again! In addition,
> I have other keybindings setup for other applications and nothing else but
> 3ddesk runs twice. I even went to the extreme of building shell scripts to
> touch files on my system and run them through strace from the keybinding
> to see if it is perhaps called twice. I can't tell what's going on. It
> ONLY happens with 3ddesk and ONLY when it's bound to a key in my window
> manager. I even tried metacity and got the same results.
I have seen this as well, on a single-processor system. It only happens
occasionally, though, and I believe it is only if i hold the key for a
little longer than normal. My guess would be keyboard repeat, and the
window-manager is queueing TWO keyboard events (but the second does not
get processed until 3ddesk is done). Actually it is probably related to
the little delay before anything moves when invoking 3ddesktop. I think
I tend to keep the key pressed until it activates, which is probably why
it queues two events. If there was just some way of configuring
key-repeat-rate on a key-by-key basis.

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 Mikkel Holm Olsen
 AKA Spaceman Spiff
 Denmark
 
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