Re: [RP] The bad old days, and the delay after hitting C-t...

[Ben Leslie]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Ryan Yeske wrote:

> Ben Leslie <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, Ryan Yeske wrote:
> > 
> > > Ben Leslie <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Shawn Betts wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Ben Leslie <address@hidden> writes:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > Not everything has a keyboard either so you might want a different 
> > > > method of controlling ratpoison. (I'm thinking of maybe embedded devices
> > > > and the like.).
> > > 
> > > I had to laugh when I read this.  What kind of embedded device would
> > > you need a window manager for? :)
> > 
> > Weren't there a bunch of people running it on an ipaq?
> 
> Heh, ya I'm one of those people.  But the ipaq has a keyboard.  At
> least, it has buttons that generate keysyms.  I wasn't thinking of an
> ipaq as an embedded machine though...

Well yeah, people have different definitions of embedded devices I guess.
  
> > I could see the possibility for a window manager on car stereo mp3
> > player, or probably a bunch of other things others haven't thought of
> > yet.
> 
> But if you are running a wm, you by definition have a user interface.
> It follows from having a user interface that you have user input.
> Unless its all mouse motion stuff (in which case ratpoison is not the
> right thing to run on the device), you will have some form of keyboard
> input (even if its stroking letters with a pen).

I don't think you can assume that.

Either way, I think I have good reasons for wanting these things seperated,
others don't, which is fine. It works either way.

Benno