On Wed, 11 Feb 1998 11:15:18 +0000
Os <os_at_scee.sony.co.uk>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: fvwm2 and SGI's desktop':
> Hi.
>
> I'm using fvwm2 now on my SGI Indy (moved over from fvwm95, as it
> happens).
>
> I'd like to be able to use the SGI desktop icons aswell. However there's
> a problem in that the icons get the left and middle button clicks, but
> the right button is only handled by the window manager, whereas I want
> the icons to get the right clicks if the mouse is over one of them.
>
> Has anyone ever dealt with this problem?
I have vague recollections of encountering this in the past. The drag
and drop desktop functionality is provided by a daemon called
objectserver. IIRC this daemon grabs left and middle mouse clicks
and does its own thing with them. Right mouse click is passed to the
window manager unharmed.
Imagine you are running 4Dwm. On an open area of desk left mouse
rubberbands an area of desk. Middle mouse pastes text. Right mouse
is passed to the WM, which pops up a menu. So you could emulate
this by not using left and middle in fvwm, but bind right to an fvwm
menu.
It may be possible to change the behaviour of objectserver. Read its
documentation and let me know if you find anything :-)
Good luck.
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 Wed Feb 11 1998 - 10:42:57 GMT