From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 950 invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2010 15:26:53 -0000 Received: (qmail 940 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Sep 2010 15:26:52 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,TW_FV,TW_VW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (HELO smtpout.karoo.kcom.com) (212.50.160.34) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:26:48 +0000 Received: from 213-152-38-55.dsl.eclipse.net.uk (HELO [192.168.0.8]) ([213.152.38.55]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 27 Sep 2010 16:26:45 +0100 Message-ID: <4CA0B7BE.5060701@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:26:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: cts.private@yahoo.com Subject: Re: fvwm ignores clickToFocus for function keys References: <297050.63399.qm@web63705.mail.re1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <297050.63399.qm@web63705.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00080.txt.bz2 On 26/09/2010 12:28, Charles Smith wrote: > This conversation was transferred from the cygwin main list because Larry Hall said it was xfree-specific... > > From: Morgan Gangwere<0 dot fractalus at gmail dot com> >> Sounds like something is trashing a buffer... however I'm not entirely >> sure. > ... >> Sounds oddly configuration related... then again, i don't use fvwm on >> windows. > > My suspicion is that it has to do with the cut-buffers/clip-board-mechanism, somehow. > > I'd said previously that what gets sent (when a function key is pressed but the mouse cursor isn't over the in-focus window) is the unmapped version of the function key. It might also be some earlier contents of the cut-buffer, or something like that. I'm still trying to track it down. > > Being able to cut-and-paste between windows and cygwin is important, and I'm glad that this evolving capability is so far along... but is it possible to disable it, at least for debugging purposes? 'man XWin' [1] documents the -noclipboard option. [1] http://x.cygwin.com/docs/man1/XWin.1.html -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/