On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 16:03, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> At work we decided to dump XWinPro that we have used 'til now to access
> the Linux servers and start to use Cygwin on the local PCs (to lighted the
> burdon on the develop machine).
>
> So I sacrificed a few hours this evening to get my script-based FVWM
> config working and compiled 2.5.6 (since I use some cutting-edge features,
> such as my vector button pixel offsets :-) ).
>
> Mostly it works nice (except a lot of programs not present (like
> ROX-filer, but no big deal, an RXVT is sufficent).
> Though the keybindings are not working.
>
> For example I have:
>
> Key F1 R N Menu MainMenu
> Key F1 A M Menu MainMenu
>
> But when I press F1, I get the _built in_ Root menu.
> Also I have Alt+F4 bound to "Close", this is intercepted ny the
> "surrounding" Windows window, and asks if I really want to kill the
> X-Server (I don't).
>
> Is there some way around this?
>
> (I really like the idea of not running Metacity and Bluecurve, the
> "official" WM to use in Cygwin is wmaker. I would rather run FVWM. I hope
> if I get it to work nicely, my boss might let me use it... :-) )
>
> //Marcus
>
I bring you a shimmer of hope (as I've used Cygwin's X server before--it
makes using Win32 a much less painful experience ;) -- Although fvwm
can't do anything about Windows grabbing alt-f4, the X server can: start
the X server with -nowinkill to disable alt-f4, and consider starting it
with -unixkill to make ctrl-alt-backspace do the same thing.
The command line options are documented in
http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/ug/cygwin-xfree-ug.pdf, which contains a
few other interesting options. You might be interested in -fullscreen,
and -rootless exists in newer versions, although it's not documented in
that pdf. I've personally found that -rootless is a little kludgy, and
I don't recommend it if you have edge flipping enabled as fvwm creates
small windows at each corner which will look strange without the rest of
the root window.
Dan Espen's numlock theory sounds likely for your F1 problem--don't
forget that you can use IgnoreModifiers if your PC turns on numlock at
boot and you can't turn that off.
Hope that helps,
--
Ben Winslow <rain_at_bluecherry.net>
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Received on Mon May 05 2003 - 17:18:15 BST