I am not a huge fan of threading when it can be avoided. I always thought that it was OK for GUI programs to be threaded. I just discovered that you can handle X events from a select loop.

    dis = XOpenDisplay(DISPLAY);
    fd = ConnectionNumber(dis);

    FD_SET(fd, &in_fds);

    select(fd+1, &in_fds, NULL, NULL, NULL);

    ...

Recently I have been doign a bit of contract work for Symbio Technologies. They have had me do various little projects part time. Most recently I got a chance to work on X.org video drivers for the Geode family.

Here is the progress…

I have an update to my [previous article]{screen-ssh-agent} on forwarding [ssh-agent]{tag/ssh} through [screen]{tag/screen}. I’ve since switched to [zsh]{tag/zsh} and am now forwarding the X DISPLAY environment variable through to the screen shell.

You can grab my ~/.zsh.d/S51_screen, ~/.zsh.d/S60_prompt, and ~/.screenrc or read below.