On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 02:42:53AM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:50:01AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Is there something I'm missing about bbkeys that would make it behave > > properly in a multiple-screen environment? Blackbox is more than willing > > to manage any and all screens it can find on the server, but bbkeys....
<deleted> > > If only run on one screen, it can manage keys for that screen. Run another > > copy of it on another screen, and it stops working completely until you > > exit all copies of it running on all screens and start a single one up > > again. > I've had a similar problem, tho my multihead is in running > bbkeys in the native X terminal and also in Xvnc sessions > from other boxes. My temporary hack is to use another wm > inside vnc but I don't like it. Why would a copy of bbkeys running inside VNC care what the exterior window manager was doing? These things get weirder and weirder the more I look at them. I noted that blackbox, unlike most of the other wm's I've been playing with, doesn't actually fork another instance of itself to deal with the second screen... instead the one instance manages both. I imagine that if there were actually two X servers running, then there'd be two copies of blackbox running. Another great statement for minimalism, eh? At least that helps to understand why bbkeys has trouble with multiple running instances of itself. The instance that gets started on *:0.0 has no trouble at all hooking itself into blackbox, and then here comes another one on *:0.1 that messes things up. I suppose the actual fix will be to cause bbkeys to pay attention to keystrokes from any screen... not just the one it was launched on. It's not going to be a blackbox issue, I'd think. Anyway... I'd like to at least get my workspace switching back... the rest of the hotkeys I can live without. <wah!> > > -- > T > -- Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
