Re: FVWM: Cannot get hotkeys to work

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 17:16:57 +0100

On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 11:04:42AM -0500, Chris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 10:04:02AM +0100, Dominik Vogt fvwm-at-fvwm.org |fvwm| wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 01:17:38PM -0500, Chris wrote:
> >>
> >> The really strange thing is that last night, for a time Alt-F1 was
> >> working as desired, then it stopped. Control or Shift combinations
> >> were fine. Now I can't get any of them to work, even without a
> >> modifier.
> >
> > Make sure your NumLock, ScrollLock or CapsLock key isn't pressed.
>
> That did it. As soon as I turned Numlock off, it works fine. (In
> retrospect, that's not surprising, since Numlock is mod2.) I created
> additional keybindings to cover both Meta and Meta+mod2 cases, and now
> it works beautifully regardless of Numlock. Even the Alt-Tab behaviour
> is now working!
>
> Unsurprisingly, what I thought might be a problem turns out to be an
> error on my part and a lot more power and functionality than expected in
> FVWM. Sometimes, it's good to be wrong. :)

You may also want to look at FAQ question 0.1. There are
instructions to disable the annoying ...Lock keys alltogether. Or
you can disable it with the IgnoreModifiers command in fvwm only.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Mar 18 2004 - 10:19:18 GMT

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