%% Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com> writes:
de> Alvin Chin <achin_at_cs.toronto.edu> writes:
>> Sorry to be ignorant, but when I right click with my mouse on the root
>> window (the background of my desktop which is in a VNC viewer), I only
>> see the standard menu of the GNOME window manager (New Windows, New
>> Folder, etc.).
>>
>> Unless this is not called the root window, then what is the root
>> window?
de> Gnome runs something called Nautilus.
de> This creates a borderless window that covers the root window.
de> You can stop using nautilus or invoke your fvwm menus some other way.
Or, choose the "third way"! :)
Change your key and mouse click to accept both "R" (root window) AND "D"
(desktop application). So:
>> > Mouse 3 R A StrokeFunc FeedBack DrawMotion StrokeWidth 2
>> > Stroke 0 0 R A Exec xmessage "Just click mouse 3 on the root"
>> > Stroke N852 0 R A Exec xterm -n "Draw line from up to down"
>> > Stroke N456 0 R A Exec xterm -n "Draw line from left to right"
Mouse 3 RD A StrokeFunc FeedBack DrawMotion StrokeWidth 2
Stroke 0 0 RD A Exec xmessage "Just click mouse 3 on the root"
Stroke N852 0 RD A Exec xterm -n "Draw line from up to down"
Stroke N456 0 RD A Exec xterm -n "Draw line from left to right"
See the documentation of the "Mouse" option in the fvwm man page.
Note you need a sufficiently new version of FVWM (I don't remember
whether this is implemented in 2.4.x).
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Received on Thu May 20 2004 - 11:21:38 BST