Re: FVWM: key bindings

From: Thomas A. Gardiner <gardiner_at_pas.rochester.edu>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 11:44:03 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks Dan,

I must have been sleeping still...

Tom

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Dan Espen wrote:

>Michael Han <mikehan_at_mikehan.com> writes:
>> On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 10:25:17AM -0400, Dan Espen wrote:
>> > I don't think he wants exec, he's trying to generate keystrokes
>> > that are handled by the Linux kernel (I believe).
>> >
>> > Neil, I think you are asking this question on the wrong list.
>> > I don't know the right one, but I'm pretty sure this is Linux kernel
>> > stuff. Even if fvwm did support generating synthetic keystrokes, I don't
>> > think the kernel would see them.
>> >
>> > CTRL-ALT-F1 works even when the x server isn't active.
>>
>> Correction, ALT/META-F1 works in the standard linux console. XFree86
>> supports the CTRL-ALT-F1 key binding. You'd need to hack XFree86 to
>> get additional tty-switching capability, since XFree86 only supports
>> turning the existing CTRL-ALT-Fn bindings on and off. Neil might want
>> to look at the xfree86 mailing lists.
>
>My PC keyboard doesn't have a META key.
>
>I can switch between consoles with C-A-Fn without XFree86 running.
>
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