Re: FVWM: fvwm, xnest, grabfocus, grab all events...

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 12:05:59 -0500

xavier <list.fvwm_at_natch.dyndns.org> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use xnest, to work around the 255 clients limit of X.

If you tell us the X server you are using, perhaps there
is a way to increase that.

> so inside xnest, i'm launching (of course) fvwm.
> however, almost all my keybindings, mouse actions (thoses
> called with a modifier) are interpreted by my main fvwm ;
> so i can't resize windows with alt+click, i'm forced
> to try to grab the edge of the window to be resized to do that.
> (alt+click resize the xnest window)
>
> is there any way to pass every thing to xnest when xnest is focused ?

What you are looking for is per window key bindings to override
the global bindings you've set for Fvwm. Unless I haven't been
paying attention, I don't think there is a way to do that.

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Received on Thu Nov 04 2004 - 11:07:55 GMT

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