On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:23:58PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
[ status update ]
> I know this
> means some people will tell me that I'm on my own if I build
> differently from the book, but I'm hping somebody can suggest
> fruitful lines of enquiry to fix my problems, which are:
>
> 1. ctrl_alt_{+,-} don't change the resolution. Peter Steiger
> remarked on this last month, but got no response. Unlike him, I'm
> not seeing any messages on the console log suggesting that the
> resolution is being altered. Like for him, xrandr works to change
> the resolution.
>
> 2. now that I've got mwm built as my temporary window manager (I
> need lesstif anyway), the alt-tab key combination to switch to the
> next window (i.e. the next xterm) is non-functional. The tab key
> itself works and alt works in e.g. alt-F4 to close a window.
>
Since my last response I've built, and rebuilt, 7.1 at least six
times on different architectures, adding more and more of the things
I'd originally omitted, with no joy. Today, I decided to move on and
build my preferred wm (icewm) and, much to my surprise, alt-tab is
working fine (this is on x86, but *every* arch was behaving the same
way). What is more, so is ctrl-alt-{-,+} - at least, using the
numeric keypad - just rechecked on ppc64, confirmed it didn't work
with mwm (from lesstif) and the numeric keypad, built a 32-bit
icewm, joy!
Maybe I'm getting old and forgetting how things are supposed to
work. Maybe I'm imagining that I used to use mwm as a temporary wm
because it had working alt-tab (unlike twm). Unfortunately, I can't
ditch lesstif in a fit of pique because I have to build it for xpdf.
Thanks for listening, you've made a somewhat happier man feel very
old :)
Ken
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