Re: FVWM: Insert text in applications

From: Uwe Pross <uwe.pross_at_e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 10:50:43 +0200

On July 18, 2002 at 10:16 +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
>
> As the description of the FakeClick command in the man page says,
> there is no general solution to send clicks from fvwm to
> applications. On one hand, applications may (but rarely do)
> ignore events that were not generated by the X server. And on the
> other hand events are sent to a specific sub window. They do not
> propagate from the window on the bottom to the hierarchy up to the
> first window that wants these events. There is no way to find out
> the window in which the application expected the click. That's
> the reason for the "depth" option of the FakeClick command. But
> one depth setting may be good for one application and fail on
> another one.

Actually not the answer I expected :-| but thanks anyway for the
explanation.

Uwe
-- 
+--------------------------------------------------
| Uwe Pross 
| mail : mailto:uwe.pross_at_e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de
| www  : http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~uwp
+--------------------------------------------------
--
Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>.
To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a
message to majordomo_at_fvwm.org.
To report problems, send mail to fvwm-owner_at_fvwm.org.
Received on Thu Jul 18 2002 - 03:51:25 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Mon Aug 29 2016 - 19:37:53 BST