Have you examined all the alternatives?

[Athanasios Anastasiou <thanos atmail com>]

Hello Cesar

The things people do for love!!! :-)

Have you examined all the possible alternatives for the application you 
are trying to make? For example, maybe the window manager you are 
refering to (FVWM), has already some means of modifying the behaviour of 
the right click, or even the option of modifying the pop up menu that 
appears.

If you use GTK to provide this functionality you should bare in mind 
that the application will probably not have a proper main window and 
will have to stay ON all the time. Traping the right click event is 
going to be tricky, as you only want it to respond when the mouse is 
over the desktop area and still it might collide with the right click 
event response from the window manager.

So...Why dont you buy your girlfriend a new computer that can run a more 
geared up distribution of linux? If she is a beginer she is going to 
appreciate it much more than having to cope with all the "limitations" 
and "pecularities" your solution introduces. There is even the 
possibility of turning down Linux because she does not find it practical 
and think that its ugly. Think about it.

All the best.
thanOS