[xmonad] darcs patch: Scratchpad terminal

[Adam Vogt]

* On Monday, February 25 2008, Braden Shepherdson wrote:


>
>New patches:
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>[Scratchpad terminal
>Braden Shepherdson <Braden.Shepherdson at gmail.com>**20080225183633
> 
> Key binding and ManageHook to pop up a small, floating terminal window for a few quick commands.
> 
> Combined with a utility like detach[1], makes a great X application launcher.
> 
> Requires my two new ManageHooks (doRectFloat, specifically).
> 
> [1] http://detach.sourceforge.net

Are there any differences between detach and the disown shell builtin?  
(Other than maybe syntax prettiness... which you could get with a shell 
function...)

ie. is detach ... program
better or different than:

program & disown %1     ?