Thanks for that suggestion. It sort-of works - I can initiate a
stroke provided it starts at the button. This really limits the possible
strokes though. Also often the stroke seems to get stuck and doesn't respond
to the ButtonRelease event (I'm not sure why this is).
The limitation is the stylus, because you can't just move the cursor.
You have to first make contact with the screen (and this generates a
ButtonPress event) and then drag the cursor.
So for instance using StrokeFunc NotStayPressed, I could tap one of the
onscreen buttons generating a key bound to that command - up to here
it's OKi, and I enter the stroke mode. but then when I go to do the stroke
this first generates a ButtonPress event as I contact the screen,
which immediately exits me from the Stroke mode.... I can't see how to
get around this without hacking the source.
One solution which I'm using at the moment is to bind a button to
iconifying all the windows and then bind stroke commands to the root
window. This means I lose the root window for anything else though.
cheers,
Alexei
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 11:41:43AM +0000, Tavis Ormandy did merrily tap:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 01:26:44PM +1000, Alexei Gilchrist wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been running fvwm on a linux Zaurus PDA and it's by far the best
> > window manager I've found for the platform despite the limitations of a
> > PDA (you can see screenshots of fvwm on Zaurus on this thread:
> > http://www.zaurususergroup.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=8280&st=0 )
> >
>
> Wow, that's awesome!
>
> > Can anyone suggest how to efficiently set up the use of Stroke for a
> > PDA? Stroke itself is working fine, but I have not found it very usable because:
> >
> > 1) there is only really one button with the stylus so you can't simply
> > overide that for the stroke commands.
> > 2) binding the stroke commands only on the root window is a bit
> > limiting, and you would have to get to the root window first.
> > 3) using a modifier key means that you have to use the
> > keyboard, and if you're going to do that it's just as easy to bind a key
> > to the command than have to use both keys and stylus, also if the PDA
> > is open such that the keyboard is unaccessible then you lose the stroke
> > commands right when you need them most.
>
> I see you use a taskbar, you could create a button on it that initiates
> the stroke, for example:
>
> *FvwmButtons: (2x20, Icon stroke.png, Frame 0, ActionOnPress, Action(Mouse 1) `StrokeFunc DrawMotion FeedBack`)
>
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