Kensington 4button "Expert Mouse" trackball an apparent anomaly 4063

On 18 Jul 2005 19:09:07 GMT, Stan Goodman staggered into the Black Sun and said:

It's a reference to Snow Crash. (Or is it a reference to track 4 of "La loveorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1", or to Samuel Beckett's analysis of "Krapp's Last Tape"?)

Yep, occult knowledge that I've been trying to disseminate to the whole world via Usenet and groups.google and such for the last 2.5 years :-) .

I'd guess this is sort of a result of the way Unix people think. Monolithic stuff is discouraged, tiny programs that do one thing and do one thing well are encouraged.0 X is, at heart, a set of device drivers for video cards and an implementation of the X11 protocol. If the X server can grab a button-press event from an input device and report it as X event (1,2,4) , then X's job is essentially done. It's up to the window manager and-or the application that has the input focus to decide what to do with X event (1,2,4). Since there are N+1 window managers and applications, things fall down just a bit. That's where tiny, special-purpose, flexible things like xbindkeys come in.

There is something in KDE that theoretically allows you to do the things that xbindkeys does in a GUI-fied way. The last time I tried to use it, it segfaulted when I was trying to map Shift-F10 to action "send X events for string 'test' to X server". Oh well, maybe they've fixed that in KDE 3.4.

Everybody knows that Larry Wall designed the camel! (-:

0 Monolithic is good for some things. OpenOffice and Firefox are a couple of decent examples.

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