Hi all,
FVWM is a great piece of software and the best window manager around.
There's a single nagging bit with FvwmPager and the fact that my machine
is a notebook with a PS/2 trackpoint and only 2 mouse buttons. The
button semantics of FvwmPager is hard-coded, and moving windows is
associated with dragging with mouse button 2 down. Under XFree86, button
2 is emulated by pressing both buttons, which is quite a pain. I know I
could have tweaked the Xmodmap to reorder the button, but that would
break the other applications' interface.
So, after this lengthy introduction, here's a tiny patch to FvwmPager.
What it does is add a config option *FvwmPagerSwapButtons to swap
buttons 3 and 2. When that option is specified in .fvwmrc, moving
windows is mapped to button 3 drag and positioning the screen is mapped
to button 2. Additionally, focus without screen change is mapped to
button 3 click. That's it.
It's really a quick hack that isn't destined to get into the official
source. I think I read somewhere sometime ago that a more flexible
button mapping configuration parser was planned for FvwmPager. Until
then, this patch could help the button-impaired. It helps my poor
fingers a lot. :-)
To apply the patch, do "diff < patch.swapbuttons" in the
modules/FvwmPager directory.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- FvwmPager.c Wed Jul 31 19:23:17 1996
+++ FvwmPager.c.orig Wed Jul 31 19:22:57 1996
_at_@ -151,8 +151,6 @@
Scr.screen= DefaultScreen(dpy);
Scr.Root = RootWindow(dpy, Scr.screen);
- Scr.SwappedButton2 = 2;
- Scr.SwappedButton3 = 3;
if(Scr.Root == None)
{
_at_@ -961,12 +959,6 @@
Clength+12)==0))
{
StartIconic = 1;
- }
- else if((strlen(&tline[0])>1)&&
- (mystrncasecmp(tline,CatString3("*",MyName,"SwapButtons"),
- Clength+12)==0))
- {
- Scr.SwappedButton2 = 3; Scr.SwappedButton3 = 2;
}
else if((strlen(&tline[0])>1)&&
(mystrncasecmp(tline,CatString3("*",MyName,"Rows"),
--- FvwmPager.h Wed Jul 31 19:23:17 1996
+++ FvwmPager.h.orig Wed Jul 31 19:23:02 1996
_at_@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
int d_depth; /* copy of DefaultDepth(dpy, screen) */
int MyDisplayWidth; /* my copy of DisplayWidth(dpy, screen) */
int MyDisplayHeight; /* my copy of DisplayHeight(dpy, screen) */
- int SwappedButton2, SwappedButton3;
char *FvwmRoot; /* the head of the fvwm window list */
Window Root; /* the root window */
--- x_pager.c Wed Jul 31 19:23:23 1996
+++ x_pager.c.orig Wed Jul 31 19:23:07 1996
_at_@ -444,7 +444,7 @@
break;
case ButtonRelease:
if((Event->xbutton.button == 1)||
- (Event->xbutton.button == Scr.SwappedButton3))
+ (Event->xbutton.button == 2))
{
for(i=0;i<ndesks;i++)
{
_at_@ -458,7 +458,7 @@
IconSwitchPage(Event);
}
}
- else if (Event->xbutton.button == Scr.SwappedButton2)
+ else if (Event->xbutton.button == 3)
{
for(i=0;i<ndesks;i++)
{
_at_@ -478,14 +478,14 @@
}
break;
case ButtonPress:
- if (((Event->xbutton.button == Scr.SwappedButton2)||
- ((Event->xbutton.button == Scr.SwappedButton3)&&
+ if (((Event->xbutton.button == 2)||
+ ((Event->xbutton.button == 3)&&
(Event->xbutton.state & Mod1Mask)))&&
(Event->xbutton.subwindow != None))
{
MoveWindow(Event);
}
- else if (Event->xbutton.button == Scr.SwappedButton3)
+ else if (Event->xbutton.button == 3)
{
for(i=0;i<ndesks;i++)
{
------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Received on Mon Aug 05 1996 - 07:49:42 BST