On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 17:39:14 +0000
"Jacques B. Siboni" <jacsib_at_lutecium.fr>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: drag'n drop':
> Hi,
>
> Do you know of a way to have access to a drag and drop feature with fvwm2?
> I mean the feature found on Windows, and possibly on Motif, to grasp a file or
> program and drop it onto the desktop ground?
>
> Is it planned to be included in a future version or is there an additional
> program that deals with it?
Hi Jacques
As others have already noted, drag and drop (dnd) falls outside the
remit of a window manager. However, it is currently available through
both the Gnome and KDE desktop environments. Gnome supports the Xdnd
and Motif protocols, and I believe KDE at least supports Xdnd,
possibly others (any KDE-heads out there with this info?).
You can read about Gnome dnd at
http://www.gnome.org/white-papers/DND/DND/.
I believe Gnome should run on the major unices. If you're using
linux then RedHat 6.0 comes with both Gnome and KDE set up by
default. Most current linux distributions should have one or the
other or both.
At the moment I'm running fvwm2 and Gnome quite happily together,
and have dnd working even though fvwm isn't gnome-compliant yet.
I think someone is working on this in the current development
tree ... what's the current status of this, guys?
See
http://www.gnome.org/
http://www.kde.org/
Cheers
Ric
Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web:
http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Thu Jun 10 1999 - 10:22:47 BST