23 Apr
2011
23 Apr
'11
1:43 a.m.
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:22:59PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
i don't think so. but since, as dave pointed out,
there is no
particular mapping between client IDs and names, there's really no way
to do this. i think. like i said, i consider the whole design totally
FUBAR'ed. if you use numeric ID's you're screwed because the client ID
may change; if you use names, you're screwed because you can't map
reliably from names to the numeric ID's required by the API. that's
how it looks to me, anyway.
Things seem to be that way...
Regarding 'less than useful' interfaces, I just discovered
another one.
I want to use a Thinkpad's motion sensors for sound control.
You can read them from '/sys/devices/platform/hdasp/position',
which produces a string in the form (x,y). All good so far.
But opening that file and reading a line from it say every
50 ms just repeats the same values. To get updates you have
to close and re-open the file each time...
Ciao,
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FA