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Apple users don’t get to have all the fun. Apparently, IBM ThinkPad users can enjoy the “convenience” of smacking their ‘pads’ to switch desktops. I almost forgot many of the newer IBM shipped its computers with motion sensors to protect their hardrives.

Requirements:
• A ThinkPad with the IBM Active Protection System
• The hdaps kernel module (if sudo modprobe hdaps fails, you’re not qualified)
• The wnck Python module, provided by gnome-python (if python -c “import wnck” fails, you’re not qualified either)
• An EWMH compliant window manager (most modern WMs are)
• The smack.py script

Any [original] black “book” [notebook] users willing to try this one out? If interested, grab the required files and look through the write-up for more details.