Hi. I've been using fvwm since I don't remember when, somewhere back
around Redhat 5 anyways. Great WM, not as heavyweight as some
of the others, and not as visually busy as the others as well.
Anyhow, I just recently upgraded the Motherboard in my system and
the keyboard. The new keyboard has multimedia keys and I wanted
to used them to control XMMS. I also have a mac powerbook and having
the volume keys work regardless of the application is very convenient.
Target System is RedHat 9, FVWM version 2.4.16.
So i've done the following:
Used xmodmap in .xinitrc to bind XF86AudioRaiseVolume, etc. to the
appropriate keycodes. (and verified with xev)
Added the following to my .fvwm2rc:
Key XF86AudioRaiseVolume A A ALL (XMMS*) Echo up $[w.id] $[w.name]
Key XF86AudioLowerVolume A A ALL (XMMS*) Echo down $[w.id] $[w.name]
Key XF86AudioMute A A ALL (XMMS*) Echo mute $[w.id] $[w.name]
I was going to replace echo with an exec to execute a command that will
send an KP_Up or KP_Down event directly to the XMMS window (which
will adjust the volume). As I understand the man page, the $[w.id] is
supposed to return
the window id that the command is called on. There are two xmms windows, the
main control and the playlist window. Each press of the button should
echo two window
ids (and the window name).
If the focus is on the root, then the correct window ids and titles are
echoed:
0x1400066 XMMS - song title info
0x14000cf XMMS Playlist
All is well so far. However, if any window has the focus then I get the
window id of the window with the focus -- twice. So if the focus is on
an xterm, I get two lines of:
up 0x1200026 xterm.
I've looked through several months worth of archive and used google to
search
the site, but I haven't found any help.
Do I have the correct interpretation of $[w.id]? If not, what should I use?
I supposed I could write a command that searches all windows on the root
for one with the title XMMS, but that seems to be a bit of a waste if it
is already there in the window manager.
Thanks in advance..
Tom.
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Received on Mon Jun 23 2003 - 20:18:51 BST