FVWM: Mouse 1 R A Menu not working

Discussion:

Hernan G Solari

2014-10-06 19:50:06 UTC

Hello
I have been using fvwm for eons, since it replaced twm and mwm. I
never felt the need
to change the original behaviour of the mouse buttons.
fvwm is running over X, I mean I use NO desktop (gnome, KDE, ...)
and is launched by gdm3

I have now upgraded Debian from squeeze to wheezy and fvwm menus are
not responding ...
(fvwm version 2.5.30 but after downloading, compiling and testing fvwm
2.6.5 I made no
improvement)

config file reads
# Button Context Modifi Function
#if mouse is in root window...
Mouse 1 R A Menu "Utilities" Nop
Mouse 2 R A Menu "Window-Ops" Nop
Mouse 3 R A WindowList

I have checked that things like
Mouse 1 x A Menu "Utilities" Nop
with x in {A,W} work as expected.
As a temporary fix I enable Key F3 to F5 for the menus and
have pointed <ctl> Mouse to the menus
Mouse i A C Menu .....

Â¿Is this a bug? Â¿Is there a fix?

thanks
Hernan

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Hernan G Solari

2014-10-07 11:26:38 UTC

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Thanks Charlie and Jaimos

Using D instead of R as context in
Mouse 1 R A ......
produces the same behavior. Apparently it is the context Root what it is
not being
recognized
If I try to set a key as
Key F4 R A .....
it ignores the key, using other contexts it works. But ... when I run
"xwininfo -children"
and I point to the Root window I get

Root window id: 0x195 (the root window) (has no name)
Parent window id: 0x0 (none)

Meaning that it is the root window. Puzzling

(The X-server is "NOUVEAU" the free server for nvidia cards) in the vesa
server

Hernan

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Dan Espen

2014-10-07 12:54:57 UTC

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Post by Hernan G Solari
Thanks Charlie and Jaimos
Using D instead of R as context in
Mouse 1 R A ......
produces the same behavior. Apparently it is the context Root what it
is not being
recognized
If I try to set a key as
Key F4 R A .....
it ignores the key, using other contexts it works. But ... when I run
"xwininfo -children"
and I point to the Root window I get
Root window id: 0x195 (the root window) (has no name)
Parent window id: 0x0 (none)
Meaning that it is the root window. Puzzling
(The X-server is "NOUVEAU" the free server for nvidia cards) in the
vesa server

I had similar problems with Nouveau.
Installing the Nvidia driver cured the problem.

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Dan Espen