Re: FVWM: 2.5.1 under GNOME: Can't bind mouse buttons 1 and 3 on root window

From: Mikhael Goikhman <migo_at_homemail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 15:56:01 +0000

On 14 May 2002 13:55:12 -0400, Francis Litterio wrote:
>
> I'm using FVWM 2.5.1 under GNOME on Red Hat 7.2, and I have the
> following two mouse binding commands in my .fvwm2rc file:
>
> Mouse 1 R N Popup RootMenu Nop
> Mouse 3 R N WindowList OnlyIcons, UseIconName
>
> But mouse button 1 on the root window is handled by Gnome (for selecting
> desktop icons), and mouse button 3 on the root window pops up the Gnome
> desktop menu. The FVWM commands shown above do not execute. This
> happens regardless of which modifiers I specify -- GNOME gets all mouse
> 1 and mouse 3 events. I can bind mouse button 2 to an FVWM command
> without a problem.
>
> If I run FVWM without GNOME, I have no problem with those two bindings.
>
> Is there way to get FVWM to handle those two mouse events? I read the
> man page, but found only the "GnomeButton" command which does the
> opposite of what I want (it tells FVWM to let GNOME handle a mouse
> event).

Which program handles your windows-like shortcut desktop icons?
I can't reproduce this with gmc-4.5.54 when no GnomeButton is specified,
i.e. FVWM gets every root mouse event.

Regards,
Mikhael.
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Received on Wed May 15 2002 - 10:57:16 BST

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