On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:02:42 -0500 bashr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Probably a familiar question for experts: Normally I click on the the > root window to the root menu. Sometimes the root window is completely > covered. Is it possible to exclude all windows from a 1-pixel row at > the top of the screen? It is easy to click there. How do other folks > ensure quick access to the root menu? > > Thanks. > EWMHBaseStruts is your friend. I personally use keybindings for almost everything, but there are so much ways to do that. For example, to use a panel with buttons (in combination with the command above, so other windows dont overlap it) or you can bind "Menu FvwmRoot" or "Popup FvwmRoot" (assuming that FvwmRoot is your root menu, to a mouse key into one of the titlebar buttons, like this:
Mouse 1 3 A Popup FvwmRoot That will bind left click in the second button starting from the left of the title bar to the menu, so you can open the menu in every window, if you cannot reach the root window. There might be some other ways...
