On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:25:24AM +0000, Thomas Adam thomas.adam22-at-gmail.com |fvwm| wrote: > 2008/12/19 Chuck Martin <dclrk7...@sneakemail.com>: > > Does anyone know why my keybindings fail when fvwm is run under xnest? > > I simply get an error for each binding that says "no such key". > > Depends on the binding -- because XNest acts as an XServer and an > XClient, getting FVWM that's running inside it to recognise modifier > keys correctly is problematic. If you look at using Xephyr instead, > that allows you to grab the pointer via CTRL + Shift which allows most > bindings to work for whatever is running under it.
Could you be more specific? I've noticed that it works sometimes, but not always. In trying to find a pattern, every time I think I've figured it out, I find that I'm wrong. It seems to be completely random, but I suspect there must be a reason for it working sometimes, and if I could figure it out, I could make it work consistently (I say completely random, but it fails far more than it works). I should mention that I have remapped the keyboard quite a bit to add new modifier keys (Super, Hyper, and XF86Option, which are assigned to modifiers 3, 4, and 5, respectively) that are used exclusively for the window manager, and all of my FVWM key bindings use them. When the key bindings work, they *all* work, and when they don't they all fail. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Chuck
