Re: FVWM: '--' key action has stopped working in the master

Jaimos Skriletz <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Aug 2021 10:29:40 -0600

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On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 9:34 AM Klaus Ethgen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> today i felt the need to use this Feature. I want to do the following:
>    Key (oolite) Left        A       C       --
>    Key (oolite) Right       A       C       --
>    Key (oolite) Up          A       C       --
>    Key (oolite) Down        A       C       --
>    Key Left        A       C       Scroll -100 0
>    Key Right       A       C       Scroll +100 +0
>    Key Up          A       C       Scroll +0   -100
>    Key Down        A       C       Scroll +0   +100
>
> To not scroll when in oolite. But it still scrolls instead of giving the
> keys to the application.
>
> Any idea what went wrong? Or did I stumble on a bug?
>
There was a bug where pass-through bindings were being ignored
(basically '--' is being treated as '-' which means to remove the
binding).

It was fixed in fvwm3, but is still present in fvwm.

https://github.com/fvwmorg/fvwm3/commit/954b689ee48c965c4c639bddd4a2fcc68f11217d

You can either upgrade to fvwm3 and see if that fixes your issue or
try to apply the patch to fvwm.

jaimos