Re: Update

[Michael ROGERS <M Rogers cs ucl ac uk>]

>Michael Rogers <m.rogers@cs.ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> > I think that as far as allocating the key goes, the app should say to the
>> > window manager "I would like a hotkey", and it is up to the wm to decide
>> > which key it uses at the hotkey.
>> 
>> This goes against the ICCCM, which says that the window manager
>> shouldn't use any key combinations at all... but then how many window
>> managers follow that advice? Even so, I'm not sure that the window
>> manager should get involved in managing other applications' hotkeys.
>
>I though ICCCM just said that you have to provide a way to quote any
>keystroke so that it can get sent to an application even if the window
>manager wants to use the unquoted keystroke for something else.

OK, that makes more sense. I'm just going by what I read on the Blackbox
website.  ;)


Michael Rogers