[xmonad] Re: darcs patch: Scratchpad terminal

Adam Vogt wrote:

* On Monday, February 25 2008, Braden Shepherdson wrote:

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New patches:

[Scratchpad terminal Braden Shepherdson **20080225183633

Key binding and ManageHook to pop up a small, floating terminal window for a few quick commands.

Combined with a utility like detach[1], makes a great X application launcher.

Requires my two new ManageHooks (doRectFloat, specifically).

[1] http://detach.sourceforge.net

Are there any differences between detach and the disown shell builtin? (Other than maybe syntax prettiness... which you could get with a shell function...)

ie. is detach ... program better or different than:

program & disown %1 ?

I certainly find the detach syntax handier, though of course a wrapper on disown could do the same. Mainly, I didn't know about disown. It seems like disown would work. I say "a utility /like/ disown"; any such tool that runs a program so that it won't die with the terminal will do the job. Braden Shepherdson shepheb