November 2009
5 posts
keyboard shortcuts to focus applications using...
In a previous post I fiddled a bit with python-wnck and made a small script that bound <Super>P key to activating previous focused window, i.e. last app you where looking at. This was kind of useful since I often find myself spending way to much time and effort jumping between applications. Window lists,pagers and good looking compiz effects that does the same thing all have one thing in...
listing windows with python-wnck
So as I said in my previous post I’ve recently found the nice litte libwnck and it’s python bindings.
There are lots of fun things you can do with it, try exploring it with ipython and you’ll see what I mean.
Anyways I wanted to share a little snippet of code with you, this will list all windows and print out their name in the form application name:window...
python-wnck
I just found out about a nifty litlle library called libwnck and it’s python bindings are in the ubuntu repositories under the name python-wnck. Its all about window management. It’s meant to be used for applications like window lists and workspace switchers etc. You can maximize windows, change current workspace etc.
So the first thing I did (naturally) was to write a little script...
ELIZA
Eliza is a neat little program created in the 60s by Joseph Weizenbaum. It’s been around a long time. I heard about it the first time during my university studies and the first version i tried was the ‘doctor’ in emacs (Emacs rules, vim should die!).
Anyway, a long story short, a friend of mine starting to talk about it one night while we where chucking down some beers and...
OK so I stayed
Yep. Finally decided. I’m staying here.