[comp.windows.x] Summary: twm grabs & xview programs

brossard@sasun1.epfl.ch ("", Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) (11/01/90)

	Here is the original problem:

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	xview 2.0 and twm:

	When using xview applications with twm, certain key bindings
stop working.  For example I have:
"L3" = : all : f.warpto "root%sasun1 "

	My "L3" binding stopped working when typed in non Open Windows
applications when I started using Open Windows 2.0 programs.
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	There was a complement of information from Henning Pangels:
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 It turns out
 that running an xview-dependent application (such as cm, xrolo or
 framemaker) assigns 5 function keys under modifier 2, as  reported by xmodmap:

 mod2        F13 (0x20),  F16 (0x3a),  F18 (0x50),  F19 (0x66),  F20 (0x68)
 Running xmodmap -e 'clear mod2' after the antisocial application
 returns things back to normal.
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	And from Bob Scheifler:

> 
> (The addition of modifiers should surely be documented, if it isn't.)
> You appear to have run into a server bug which causes the passive grab
> that twm has set to fail to activate when the key is also a modifier.
> 

	That bug has been reported and in the meanwhile I have added the
following binding to my .twmrc:

"L1" = m : all : !"xmodmap -e 'clear mod2'"

						Alain Brossard