Re: FVWM: Question regarding actions when modifier keys are held down/released

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:03:32PM -0400, Dave Weller-Fahy wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I've search the website, archives, wiki, and a number of configuration
> websites, and have been unable to find a way to cause an action to
> happen when a modifier key is held down and/or released. I'm running
> fvwm 2.6.8 on CentOS 7.

This has always been historically tricky.

> The use case is to have Ctrl-Alt-(up|down|left|right) change desks,
> but, if one wants, then holding Ctrl-Alt before pressing the arrow key
> will pop up the pager so you can see the desks to which you will be
> changing.

A lot of the replies here have been utterly overkill, for what should be as
simple as:

FvwmPager -transient

Kindly,
Thomas