Re: FVWM: new behaviour in fvwm-cvs with mouse button actions ...

From: Cameron Simpson <cs_at_zip.com.au>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 13:05:24 +1000

On 09:10 16 Apr 2003, Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org> wrote:
| On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 02:49:03PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > On 00:21 16 Apr 2003, Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com> wrote:
| > | D.2 Leave or remove the current change to triggering bindings on button press
| > | or release? Seems to irritate a lot of users, but fixes a root window
| > | binding bug.
| > | [dv: added on 29-Mar-2003]
| > | As far as I know there is only this compatibility issue between 2.4.x and
| > | the future 2.6. I don't think this fix is worth having to run a conversion
| > | script. [...]
| > Could a comprimise be reached - support both transitions? I wouldn't
| > care which way the default went if I could catch either action. I can
| > even imagine uses for both.
|
| Unfortunately, triggering actions and selecting windows with the
| mouse is very tricky. I can't think of a feasible way to have
| Move, Resize etc. work on button press and not break them on the
| root window.

Could you tell me what source file I should read to start examining this?

>From your email I have some idea of the issue now. However, for the
user the (desired) behaviour seems well defined with no weird cases,
so I might take a look at the stuff underneath.
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