Re: FVWM: Keybindings and Cygwin/XFree86

From: Marcus Lundblad <ml_at_update.uu.se>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 22:07:10 +0200 (CEST)

>
> 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.

Yes, this works just fine!

>
> 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.

I now use -nowinkill -unixkill -fullscreen
I will redefine alt+tab in Fvwm.

And good news is that my boss looked at the config and was quite satified,
especially about the pager (ability to drag between desks and out from
desks onto current screen).
So I might get the task to set up an official central Cygwin installation
with FVWM as the default WM :-)

//Marcus

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Received on Tue May 06 2003 - 15:08:45 BST

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