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Re: Window events skip past window manager?
- From: Takuma Murakami <takuma at dgp dot ne dot jp>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 17:46:00 +0900
- Subject: Re: Window events skip past window manager?
- References: <renekt381hu.fsf@CJWHITE.proliphix.local>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Christopher,
> I'm just installed using Cygwin/X via Cygwin Setup:
> XFree86-base v 4.3.0-1
> XFee86-bin v 4.3.0-8
>
> Running on Win XP Pro.
The version of XFree86-xserv is important. Options for
XWin.exe are also good information.
> It's a great relief to see X again! I'm starting off with just
> the default twm. However, it seems that most window mouse and
> key events are not captured by the window manager, and instead
> are passed on to the app.
>
> For example:
>
> Button3 = : all : f.raiselower
>
> This works only for the root, the window titlebar, and in the iconmgr.
> In the window, it just passes Button3 on to the running application.
I assume you mention twm and tested using .twmrc containing
only the line you showed. It looks raiselower is working
correctly on the release-44 server with no option given.
> "F1" = : all : f.raiselower
> "F2" = : all : f.warpto "emacs"
>
> Both of these work only on root. I've played with fvwm2 as well
> and experienced similar results.
I also tried the F1 case and got success.
> Anyway to get this to work?
I suspect that you are using a too old version of Cygwin/X
or your .twmrc has some errors.
Takuma Murakami