FVWM: problem with 'unclutter' utility

From: Joseph Manning <manning_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 18:16:11 +0100 (IST)

Hello,

   I'm running FVWM-2.3.22 under RedHat Linux 6.0.

   I'm also running the nice little 'unclutter' utility:

      http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc6/i386/unclutter-0.8-4.i386.html

   which makes the cursor vanish after a short period of inactivity.

   However, 'fvwm' and 'unclutter' have a small problem interacting with
   one another --- if the cursor is on the side border of a window,
   and 'unclutter' has made it vanish, then pressing a key which has
   a 'Key' binding does not actually invoke that binding; instead,
   it just echoes that key into the window.

   For example, with the binding:

      Key m FSTW M Maximize 100 100

   pressing Alt-m when the cursor is on the side border and has vanished
   simply causes the letter 'm' to be typed in the window, rather than
   resulting in the window being maximized. If Alt-m is pressed before
   the cursor has vanished, then the window is indeed maximized.

   The problem remains even when 'Key' is changed to 'PointerKey',
   and under both 'MouseFocus' and 'SloppyFocus'.

   Even after the cursor vanishes, the given window STILL RETAINS FOCUS;
   its borders are still highlighted, and the keys which are pressed
   are echoed into it.

   I do not know if the problem lies with 'unclutter' or with 'fvwm'.
   I read through the 'unclutter' source code, but I know very little
   about the details of X-windows programming, so I could not spot anything.

   Finally (!) my questions: has anyone else come across this problem,
   and does anyone have a work-around to it?

   If the window still has focus, should it not correctly process the key?

   Thanks for listening!

Cheers, Joseph
   
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Joseph Manning / Computer Science / University College Cork / manning_at_cs.ucc.ie
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