I am creating a small app called PyQe (http://klibb.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl/PyQe) to launch commands and programs quickly. I works more or less as I want it now and I have managed to make my window manager (Metacity) under Mandrake GNU/Linux start my program so that it can be started easily with just a keypress.
Now, the only annoyance I have is that when I have not started the program for a while, the OS seems to not have Python or the program in "the cache" (or whatever, what I mean is that if I have started the program "recently" it starts fast the next time) anymore, which means that the program, even though quite small, takes about a second to start. This is too slow to feel good given the nature of the program (a quick launcher). I have tried making it start faster by calling python with the -S switch and by compiling my program to a .pyc file. It has not helped much. So, I was wondering if I could have my program running in the background and instead capture a certain keystroke (the same one I have my window manager to capture now) to make the GUI appear. How does one go about doing this? I found a small program written in C (xbindkeys) that can do this and understand that it probably involves a lot of "low-level" stuff in X which feels a bit "scary" :). Any clues of doing this "easily" in Python + some module? /Mathias -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
