On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 04:59:59PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > There are several applications that steal away complete key control from > fvwm so no key bindings works if the window has the focus. Example are > kvm, spicec or several java tools that capture the whole input. > Unfortunately that left me with being unable to switch the desks or lock > the screen or other stuff that I bound to keys in fvwm. > > Is there any way to get around that problem and allow fvwm to react to > key bindings even if the bold window/application has the focus?
Sadly, there is no way to prevent applications from grabbing all keyboard input if they want to. The X protocol does not allow the window manager to intervene in any way. To fix this, all you can do is to complain to the vendor to change this. :-( Well you could try to run a nested X server in a window with xnest and then run the annoying applications in there. I'm not sure whether this works, but it's worth a try. > Similar is the problem of applications to decide them self where to map > to. You can apply the style 'StartsOnPage 2 0, SkipMapping', but firefox > does remap themself directly after the start so the window will end on > the current page. > > I miss some style settings to disallow applications to act that bold. If Firefox really moves the windows around after initial mapping, the following styles should do the trick: Style <stylename> FixedPPosition If the window is also mapped at funny places, one of the following two styles whould help: Style <stylename> !UsePPosition, !UseTransientPPosition Style <stylename> !UseUSPosition, !UseTransientUSPosition If that does not help, please explain the behaviour that annoys you in more detail. Note that the initial position of a window is affected by different styles than the styles used to prevent the application from doing funny things _after_ the window has become visible. It is not difficult to override the initial position of a window, but unfortunately there is a plethora of ways in which an application can change the position of a window afterwards. Hm, maybe fvwm should just have a style "DoWhatISay" that would disable all the freaky, unexpected behaviour that annoys user so much. ;-) Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt
