Re: FVWM: error: could not grap keyboard

From: Siegmund Fuhringer <sifu_at_0xx0.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 13:38:24 +0100

On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:10:38AM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:30:27PM +0100, Siegmund Fuhringer wrote:
> > hi!
> >
> > i've a problem and i don't know exactly what it is ;)
> >
> > after some minutes menus from gtk2 apps are not accessable until i
> > restart fvwm.
> > and if i lock the screen in this time (with xscreensaver-command -lock)
> > i'm unable to enter my password. the screensaver just displays the
> > message, that it could not grap the keyboard because it's already
> > grapped.
> >
> > any idea?
>
> Are you perhaps using key release bindings? (Key -F1 ...) It
> looks like fvwm has reserved the keyboard for exclusive use and
> never releases it. The one prominent cause for this I am aware of
> are key release bindings. They simply do not work as advertised
> and can block the whole display when something goes wrong.

i indeed use key release bindings.

thanks for the tip :)


bye bye - sifu

>
> > fvwmversion: 2.5.6
>
> Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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Received on Thu Mar 13 2003 - 06:39:42 GMT

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