[Alexandria-list] CueCat scanners, was: Website

Topher Cyll christophercyll at gmail.com
Tue Apr 10 17:53:00 EDT 2007


> Of course a kernel driver would be able to intercept the Alt-F10
> sequence and dump it to /dev/null when followed by CueCat input. Single
> Alt-F10's would be passed on to the windowmanager. I guess it's

Yeah, unless someone has some trick to intercept them or something.

> Both in Gnome's own window messenger Metacity and in Beryl Alt-F10 is
> bound to "Maximize Window". Of course this is easily changed and I guess
> it will only result in the maximisation of the Alexandria window, since
> multiple Alt-F10's don't do anything.

That's a bummer.  A note in the documentation about how to disable
that in Gnome and KDE might be sufficient, though, since Cuecat use
probably requires instructions anyways.

Toph


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