Re: FVWM: disabling all key bindings

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 07:22:45 -0500

Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
>
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Dan Espen wrote:
>
> > Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca> writes:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Is there a way to temporarily disable/reenable all key bindings in this
> > > new release of Fvwm. This would be desirable for testing appliccations
> > > or when working with new applications which may for some reason or anothe
> r
> > > need to intercept some seldomly used key binding.
> >
> > No, but you could write functions that bind and unbind the keys
> > you are concerned about.
>
> Perhaps I can use PipeRead to generate all possibille keystrokes which
> fvwm knows about and unbind each single one of them. Where can I find
> such a list and how can I unbind a key?

xmodmap -pk will show all the keys X knows about.
Fvwm doesn't have a command to show you all of its current key bindings.
Modifying Fvwm to do so probably wouldn't be too hard.

You can unbind a key with a dash:

Key F1 A A -

I think you would be much better off just unbinding the one or 2 keys
that are causing you a problem. Fvwm 2.2.x doesn't bind any keys on
its own, all the key bindings are in your .fvwm2rc. Since you want to
reenable the keys you are going to have to find all the bindings
anyway.

Since you are worried about keys used by applications, you
want to bind/unbind keys that are active in a window (or all) context.

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