John Davin wrote:
>
> The fvwm FAQ mentions that the NumLock, CapsLock and Scrolllock keys act
> as modifiers and will interfere with key bindings... I have experienced
> this problem. However, the FAQ just says to disable the keys or set
> ignore. Is there a way I can get my key bindings to still work when the
> NumLock key is on (NumLock is the only one I care about, and I prefer to
> have it on all the time but it doesn't go on automatically)?
> For example, some of my key bindings in .fvwm2rc are:
>
> Key 1 A M GotoPage 0 0
> Key 2 A M GotoPage 1 0
> Key 3 A M GotoPage 0 1
> Key 4 A M GotoPage 1 1
> Key Tab A M WindowList Root c c NoDeskSort
>
> So alt-1 goes to 1st page of desktop 0, etc.
> Is there a change I can make so that it works when NumLock is on?
IMO the best solution is to have each keybinding that you want to work
the same way with or without numLock twice - once with numLock, once
without numLock.
use xmodmap to find out wich modifier numLock is, on my machine
(linux, debian unstable) it looks like this:
jojda:~>xmodmap
xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses):
shift Shift_L (0x32), Shift_R (0x3e)
lock Caps_Lock (0x42)
control Control_L (0x25), Control_R (0x6d)
mod1 Alt_L (0x40), Alt_R (0x71)
mod2 Num_Lock (0x4d)
mod3
mod4 Meta_L (0x73)
mod5 Scroll_Lock (0x4e)
as you can see numLock is modifier 2 (you can change it using xmodmap,
see man xmodmap), your keybindings would look like this:
Key 1 A M GotoPage 0 0
Key 1 A M2 GotoPage 0 0
Key 2 A M GotoPage 1 0
Key 2 A M2 GotoPage 1 0
Key 3 A M GotoPage 0 1
Key 3 A M2 GotoPage 0 1
Key 4 A M GotoPage 1 1
Key 4 A M2 GotoPage 1 1
Key Tab A M WindowList Root c c NoDeskSort
Key Tab A M2 WindowList Root c c NoDeskSort
it's kinda ugly, but it's quite flexible, you still can use numLock
and your keybindings work the way you want them. The other solution is
to disable numlock which is not acceptable to everyone...
the other solution would be to have slightly more complicated syntax
for specifying modifiers in fvwm - adding a way to ignore modifiers for
given key binding, e.g. something like this:
Key 1 A M/2 GotoPage 0 0
all modifiers listed before slash would be required to be on, all
modifiers after slash would be ignored, all modifiers that are not
mentioned would be required to be off. Note that it's backward
compatible.
not sure if it makes sense in overall fvwm design... of course,
something like that could be added as M4 macro (I guess, I don't use
it).
erik
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Received on Fri Sep 28 2001 - 18:24:43 BST