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badsectoracula on May 26, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Exiting VIM is hard; sometimes we need to take dra...

A few years ago i wrote xkeyller[0] which kills any foreground window (well, the process that owns it) when you press Ctrl+Alt+K. I wrote it partly for games that take over X and then hang themselves and partly as an argument on Reddit towards someone that was saying X cannot do that and you need Wayland for it :-P

[0] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/xkeyller

JNRowe on May 26, 2020 [–]

Just a heads up: Your "download source" link is for a .tar.bz2, but the file is compressed with xz and not bzip2.

badsectoracula on May 26, 2020 | [–]

Thanks, i made this archive ages ago and probably did a mistake back then. I fixed it.

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