[17616] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.3.26: mwm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Mar 3 23:02:54 2000
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From: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Date: 03 Mar 2000 23:02:49 -0500
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:08:34 -0500"
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In reference to Greg's reply to the numlock problem:
A number of years ago I tried to configure mwm on Solaris so that
the keyboard key with "F12" printed on it would raise the window
if a user held down the diamond key and pressed the F12 key.
(The keyboard-F12 key has the keysym SunF37, and the keyboad-Again
key has the keysym F12.)
I discovered that mwm has the lovely feature that it would only
allow one key be bound to a particular menu function. I could
have Alt-F12, or Alt-SunF37, but I could not have both at once
bound to raise a window.
I haven't checked to see if this is still true, but if it is,
then we would not be able to bind both Mouse1 and NumLock-Mouse1
events to pop up menus, or move windows, etc.
Three cheers for mwm.
-Jacob
<ghudson@MIT.EDU> (Greg Hudson) writes:
> mwm sees keypresses and mouse clicks differently when num lock
> is on (since the X server treats it as a modifier just like
> Ctrl or Shift). We may compensate for this misfeature in a
> future release, assuming we can find the time.
