Re: FVWM: mouse #1 on root window not working

From: Richard Lister <ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 11:21:31 -0400

On Thu, 09 Oct 1997 10:00:28 -0400
Quoc Duong <qduong_at_gallium.com>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: mouse #1 on root window not working':
> Hi all,
>
> I built the fvwm-2.0.46 on a Sun Sparc:
> % uname -a
> SunOS eros 5.5.1 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
>
> Then I set the display to a SGI:
> % uname -a
> IRIX ares 5.3 11091810 IP12 mips
>
> When I run the window manager 'fvwm2', and I press on mouse #1 on
> the root window, it doesn't popup the RootMenu for me, even though
> I did set it in the ~/.fvwm2rc:

If I understand correctly you are running fvwm2 on the Sun and
displaying on the X server of the SGI. It may be that the objectserver
is running on the SGI and grabbing the button 1 and 2 mouse events.
Kill the objectserver and try again.

Just a guess ...

Ric

Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web: http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Thu Oct 09 1997 - 10:20:57 BST

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