On 11 jui 2003, Tuomo Valkonen verbalised:

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 09:09:01AM +0200, Xavier Maillard wrote:
> >  I did it using a 3rd party tool (xbindkey) but can't do the same
> >  under Ion any reason not to be able too ??
>  
>  Does xbindkey execute the program when the key is released? It

Yes it does depending of the responsiveness of the software used for ;)
I only know I can do it using either xbindkeys or keylaunch. My
preference goes for keylaunch but I'd really rather have it working
under Ion ;)

>  appears to me that the x locking programs don't like the fact that
>  Ion may still have the keyboard grabbed (implicitly by X server) if
>  the key has not been released before the program wants to grab the
>  keyboard. Executing e.g. "xterm" from a ccroll lock binding works
>  just fine (except for the annoying led). "Xlock" works half of the
>  time (takes sometimes longer to load) while "xtrlock" is always too
>  fast.  
>  A kludge around this problem is to write a short shell script that
>  sleeps for, say, a second and then executes the locking program.

Let's go for that !

>  (I might add a krelease action some time in the future; it shouldn't
>  be too much extra code..)

Yeah ! Nice to know that. 

Warm regards,

zeDek
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