[TAG] : Window Manager in FC5

Thomas Adam thomas.adam22 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 4 01:06:05 MSK 2007


On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:56:00PM +0000, Francis Daly wrote:
> I was more considering where the main window manager handles some
> keypresses itself, and where some client of the nested X server,
> including the window manager, wants to be able to receive those same
> keypresses.

I've mentioned this many times:

http://linuxgazette.net/114/tag/3.html
 
> Hopefully the window managers have a mechanism of sending any keypress
> through to an app; my point was that in order to send a keypress through
> to, for example, a client of the nested X server, you would need to take
> account of the mechanisms of both window managers rather than just the
> nested one. So it's not a "clean" window manager environment.

That all depends how the window manager handles key-bindings.

Not all of them operate on propagation alone.

-- Thomas Adam

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