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

* Chris Siebenmann <[email protected]> [2019-08-29 16:11 -0400]:
>> I've searched 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.
>
> It's possible that you'll be able to build an interface similar to
>what you want to do with the xcape program combined with some FVWM
>configuration tricks:
>
> https://github.com/alols/xcape

Interesting: this might be useful, thank you!

> This gets you a way to get a preview, but it doesn't give you the kind
>of UI flow that you were interested in initially. You'd be doing 'tap
>something, look, hit Ctrl-Alt arrow key to act, tap to dismiss' or the
>like, instead of being able to start out by holding down Ctrl-Alt,
>waiting, and then continuing with another key.
>
>(Possibly you can contrive more FVWM functions and FvwmEvents settings
>and so on so that the pager is automatically dismissed after the desk
>changes, or just after a timeout time.)

I think my "see the pager just before I decide which way to go" ideal
may have to fall to the pragmatic "see the pager just after I decide
which way to go so I can verify the direction, distance, etc. of the
journey." I'll keep chugging away at it, though, because I think it'll
be useful if I can get it to work.

Regards,
  -dave

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