On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:50:15AM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:47:10AM +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 08:43:42PM -0500, Jeremy O'Brien wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 06:48:12PM +0100, Joerg van den Hoff wrote: > > > > hi, > > > > > > > > I want to give `dwm' a serious try (used it only > > > > sporadically on my labtop up to now). so far everything > > > > seems to work except > > > > > > > > window movement which mod1-button1 mouse dragging. > > > > > > > > nothing happens. floating windows always pop up in the upper > > > > left corner of the screen and stay there. resizing with > > > > mod1-button3 works, though. > > > > > > > > I even installed some patches from the home page enabling > > > > keyboard based movement of windows, which works more or > > > > less. > > > > > > > > I search Gmane but did'nt see anything relating to this. > > > > > > > > this is under MacOSX. > > > > > > > > what am I doing wrong? > > > > > > > > any help appreciated, > > > > > > > > joerg > > > > > > > > > > You've tried both alt/option and the command key? This is probably an OS > > > X issue. I've had mixed results from running X on OS X. > > > > > > -- > > > > mod1 (alt) is recognized correctly (in all keyboard commands > > as well as in mod1-button3 + dragging, i.e. window resize). > > > > maybe it is an mac related X11 issue, but I'm not sure. I > > still use the (old) Xfree86 version coming with macos 10.4 > > and it works correctly AFAICS. > > > > but what I realized only now is that mod1-button1-click > > anyway does usually insert previously selected text in an > > xterm (i.e. this combination emulates a sole button2 click). > > and it does this still, so maybe this function masks the > > `dwm' definition. > > > > > > anyway, thanks for bothering, > > > > joerg > > That would more than likely be your problem. There is the option > "Emulate three button mouse" in X11's preferences. You may try turning > that off. > > -- > Jeremy O'Brien aka neutral_insomniac
right, that's it. I think, I did'nt look in these preferences for ages... sorry for the noise and thank's a lot. joerg
