use xbindkeys (Re: [RP] SMP and ratpoison)

[Jonathan Walther]

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 07:53:36PM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> On 23 Dec 2002, William R Thomas wrote: 
> > No, but I am using keylaunch which serves the same purpose.
>
> I don't know keylaunch, but if you can start 2 or more "ratpoison -c ..."
> using keylaunch the problem you describe can occur.
>
> BTW: xbindkeys 1.6.4 now features an installation option named --disable-fork
> that solves such problems for the combination of rp and xbindkeys.

Yes, I switched to xbindkeys when keylaunch got too flaky for me.
Xbindkeys isn't perfect, but it doesn't flake out on me (taking up 99%
cpu time sometimes), doesn't crash X or ratpoison, and it works.

Jonathan

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