Re: FVWM: A problem with EdgeResistance, EdgeScroll (fvwn 2.1.[45])

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.bellcore.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 15:23:20 -0500

Toy Keeper <scriven_at_CS.ColoState.edu> writes:
> Dan Espen wrote:
> > In 2.1.x we changed the pan frame thickness from 2 to 1.
...
> I'm curious if the Pan Frame still has its old side-effects... If so,
> it would be very helpful to be able to turn off those features.
>
> I still use 2.0.46, but I modified a few things which bothered me. In
> the distrib version, clicking inside the Pan Frame would bring up the
> root-window menus, regardless of what was actually under the cursor. I
> fixed this by changing PAN_FRAME_THICKNESS to 0. (this causes several
> startup errors, but they don't seem to matter) Does the new version
> still have this behavior? Is there a runtime option to turn it off?

Whether the pan frame is 1 or 2, if you click on a window that is
under the pan frame, you are still clicking on the pan frame, which
fvwm2 treats as the root.

> The other annoying behavior which I "fixed" was the original topic. It
> now allows mouse-scrolling only if the user is dragging a window over
> the edge. Toying with the sources wasn't the best way to change this,
> but it works... :)

Seems like what you want is a command:

EdgeScroll off

or maybe you just want a high edgeresistance to kill the pan frames.

> A previous post said something about using 10000 instead of 100 in the
> config file, to affect this... The man page says that using an
> EdgeScroll of 100 * scroll_value just lets scrolling "wrap" around
> Desktop edges, though (very handy... :). Does the man page leave
> something out, or am I confusing two things?

If I follow you, the later.

Later,
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