Re: [wmii] Slow compared to ion

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Kai Hendry wrote:
> On 2006-08-20T16:22-0700 Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
>> If you change your wmiirc to communicate with wmii through libixp,
>> then switching views (and pretty much everything else) will feel
>> _much_ faster, because your wmiirc does not fork a sub-process (and
>> thus no context switch).
>
> How do I get libixp running with wmii? I've done a quick search and
> rummaged through the Debian package to come up empty.

wmii comes with libixp. What you need to do is either write a C
program that makes use of libixp to communicate with wmii, or use
your favorite language's bindings for libixp, such as ruby-ixp[1] if
you like ruby.

[1] http://home.gna.org/rubyixp/
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