On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:53:03AM -0400, Thomas Gardiner wrote: > For me, I can move my cursor over the root window or any other window and > my key bindings for switching pages return (I use focuss follows mouse), > so it's really a question of the application getting in the way.
Hm, so the application seems to have grabbed the key on its window and fvwm has grabbed it everywhere else. I have to look this up in the X manuals. > Dominik, one thing I have noticed is that it does not occur like this all > of the time. Sometimes my key bindings work, while other times they > don't. It seems to be related to where the program is in handling > switching modes, or saving... basically whether it is accepting input. > Unfortunately, it seems a bit tricky to make it occur on will. It may be important if you start OpenOffice first or fvwm. After an fvwm restart things may look very differently. In X it's just first come - first serve: whoever requests the grab first gets it. > Silly question... Could it be the focus policy? No, that has nothing to do with it. Focus policy affects only mouse button handling. > Sometimes it seems as if > no window has focus. Can this occur, and will fvwm cope properly? > > > The same hapens with Gnome. It's pretty annoying, and I have no > > > idea how some applications manage to do this. Fvwm grabs the key > > > combinations on the root window and any further grabs by the > > > applications should fail. Yet, they still manage to do this. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
