Chuck Martin <[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:25:24AM +0000, Thomas Adam 
> thomas.adam22-at-gmail.com |fvwm| wrote:
>> 2008/12/19 Chuck Martin <[email protected]>:
>> > Does anyone know why my keybindings fail when fvwm is run under xnest?
>> > I simply get an error for each binding that says "no such key".
>> 
>> Depends on the binding -- because XNest acts as an XServer and an
>> XClient, getting FVWM that's running inside it to recognise modifier
>> keys correctly is problematic.  If you look at using Xephyr instead,
>> that allows you to grab the pointer via CTRL + Shift which allows most
>> bindings to work for whatever is running under it.
>
> Could you be more specific?  I've noticed that it works sometimes, but
> not always.  In trying to find a pattern, every time I think I've figured
> it out, I find that I'm wrong.  It seems to be completely random, but I
> suspect there must be a reason for it working sometimes, and if I could
> figure it out, I could make it work consistently (I say completely random,
> but it fails far more than it works).
>
> I should mention that I have remapped the keyboard quite a bit to add
> new modifier keys (Super, Hyper, and XF86Option, which are assigned to
> modifiers 3, 4, and 5, respectively) that are used exclusively for the
> window manager, and all of my FVWM key bindings use them.  When the key
> bindings work, they *all* work, and when they don't they all fail.  Any
> help would be greatly appreciated.

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