Re: Keymaps/GKB

[mawbid simnet is]

On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 07:28:05AM +0100, Szabolcs BAN wrote:
> Once mawbid simnet is wrote:
> ]And in the short term, a keyboard shortcut to cycle keymaps would be 
> ]awfully nice. The fact that this isn't already a gkb feature leaves
> ]me wondering if it's perhaps hard for panel applets to monitor the
> ]keyboard globally. Is it?
> 
>  Yes, it is. I'm hacking for keyboard grabbing long time ago, but I've got
> problems yet. Very strange problems. I think Gnome sets event hooks
> directly, because my events disappear every time when I give back 
> control to Gnome.
> 
>  So it will be a great hack, but be patient, in 1.4 will be a better gkb, I
> swear.
> 
>  The cooperation with window managers is a good and old idea, I made some
> suggestions about a real gnome-wm (I mean every window title could contain a
> panel or something like a gtk_container...)

Hey, are you thinking what I'm thinking? CPU and network load meters on title
bars (showing the stats for the process that owns the window)?