On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 02:24:39PM -0600, Jeff Walker wrote:
> Had anyone actually tried using fvwm2 on cygwin/xfree86?
>
> It seems to work, but I am having trouble getting the alt key to really
> work. I have it set-up so that the mouse button 1 and the alt key will move
> the window:
> Mouse 1 WTFSI M Move
>
> This works via my vncserver (a xfree86 port), but not on cygwin/xfree86.
>
> I'm not convinced that this is a fvwm problem, I am just wondering if
> someone has seen this.
>
> BTW, I am seeing something strange in xev (under cygwin), but the
> cygwin/xfree86 folks seem to think it is okay. I run xev, and when I press
> and hold a modifier (any one, not just alt) it repeats like any other key
> (say, the letter "m"). I don't know if this is contributing to the problem
> or not, other programs seem to understand that I hit, say "alt-q" instead of
> just "q" (like vim).
>
> Is this enough to go on? Thanks.
Does the output of
$ xmodmap
look okay? The "Meta_L" key symbol should be mapped to Mod1. If
not, this is probably your problem, if it is, try to find out
which key symbol is generated by the "Alt" key and use xmodmap to
tie it to Mod1. If this does not help either I am out of ideas.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Tue Jun 26 2001 - 02:27:16 BST