Re: FVWM: virtual caps lock LED for a laptop

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:38:24 -0400

Josin Etienne <josin_at_dimensional.com> writes:
>
> hi, i am running redhat 6.1"s fvwm2 on a laptop which does not
> have LEDs for the CAPS and NUM lock keys.
>
> i got xkbvleds running (i hacked the binary to make the
> on state "red").
>
> the thing is that the virtual LEDs are pretty small, and
> it seems there is no way --via the command line-- to make them
> bigger.
> i do not have xkbvled"s source code and i am in a place of the
> world where i cannot even dream of downloading the
> tar.gz files that i would need. (i was told i would need to
> download a 21 MB file)
>
> so the question is: is there a functionality within fvwm2
> which i could use to create my own virtual LEDs ? I think
> that if i get a hook to monitor the keys, i could write something
> in QT to display virtual LEDs of a bigger size than those of
> xkbvled.
>
> thanks for any tips, insights, etc. ! - josin

fvwm (and window managers in general), don't monitor all keystrokes.

21MB sounds large for a source distribution, maybe what you were told
about the download size wasn't correct.

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