FVWM: problems binding keys during fvwm session

From: Cyprian Adam Laskowski <c3a2_at_ugrad.cs.ubc.ca>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 01:16:24 -0800 (PST)

Hi,

I'm having problems doing something which I think should be very
simple: dynamically loading new fvwm keybindings with FvwmCommand
during an fvwm session. This only seems to work if the key was
already explicitly bound to something at startup with the .fvwm2rc
init file.


For example, say I have the command "Key BackSpace A C
Nop" but NO command of the form "Key Insert A C SOMECOMMAND". Then if
I do:

  % FvwmCommand 'Key BackSpace A C Exec exec xterm'
  % FvwmCommand 'Key Insert A C Exec exec xterm'

Then pressing C-backspace starts up an xterm, while C-insert does not.


Of course I could get around this by firing up a whole slew of Nop
bindings in the .fvwm2rc file and reserving any dynamic overriding
to those keystrokes. But the mere inelegance of this solution makes me
a rather displeased man.

(I'm running Red Hat 6.2 with Fvwm 2.2.4.)

Help?

cyp
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Received on Thu Nov 23 2000 - 03:16:14 GMT

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