Re: FVWM: Gnome & fvwm: messages to gnome?

From: David Forrest <drf5n_at_mug.sys.virginia.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:31:31 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks,
  I tried the
       GnomeButton
              Used in conjunction with Mouse to pass mouse button
              presses on the root window to a GNOME program (such
              as GMC). The following example passes presses of
              mouse buttons 1 and 3 to such a program.

                   Mouse 1 R A GnomeButton
                   Mouse 3 R A GnomeButton

but this looks like it passes Mouse (and maybe keypresses?) transparently.
And fvwm-menu-desktop looks closer, but makes me really believe that there
is no hook on the gnome side like:

# in my .fvwm2rc for Fvwm Version 2.3.15 :
AddToMenu "StartMenu"
+ "&Gnome Panel" Exec panel MainMenu::Activate
...

Bummer. Basically, it looks like one uses this command to recreate all
the menus in fvwm. I don't really know gnome, and it all it buys me is a
few new applications, maybe it isn't worth the effort involved in
learning it. I'll give fvwm-menu-desktop a try and see what they have
though.

Thanks,

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:

> On 10 Apr 2000 11:55:04 -0400, David Forrest wrote:
> >
> > ... and would like to trigger the Gnome menu also. Does Gnome allow any
> > hooks into itself? Or must one only access the menus only through the
> > point & click?
>
> If you want to get native gnome menus using fvwm bindings, you need the
> gnome-compliant fvwm version, i.e. the development one. Search the man
> page for GnomeButton command.
>
> If you want to get native fvwm menus, which launch gnome applications, you
> probably will find the script fvwm-menu-desktop, installed by development
> fvwm versions, useful (KDE also supported). Try 'man fvwm-menu-desktop'.
>
> Please don't expect development versions to be bug free.
>
> Regards,
> Mikhael.
>

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