>Is there anyway to send an event/atom/whatever to the
>root window to say "hey buddy, someone right-clicked
>on you, handle it" ??
I've done just that by patching bbkeys. I'm getting the patch ready to
submit to the bbkeys folks, but here's the basic idea:
I added the following actions to bbkeys:
MouseUp - move cursor up
MouseDown - move cursor down
MouseLeft - move cursor left
MouseRight - move cursor right
MouseButton1 - send button 1 click to front window
MouseButton2 - send button 2 click to front window
MouseButton3 - send button 3 click to front window
RootMouseButton1 - send button 1 click to root window
RootMouseButton2 - send button 1 click to root window
RootMouseButton3 - send button 1 click to root window
By binding these to sensible keys, I am able to trigger the menu
(RootMouseButton3 or RootMouseButton2), move the cursor to navigate the
menu (MouseUp/MouseDown/MouseLeft/MouseRight), then I can select a menu
item or dismiss the menu (MouseButton1 or MouseButton3).
It works very nicely. Not as nice as being directly integrated into
blackbox, but....
The only annoying bit is mouse movement-- particularly how far to move
the mouse for each keystroke. I actually made that a parameter in the
.bbkeysrc file, though it is not very elegant (you cannot currently set
different movement amounts for different keybindings, so you cannot have
alt-KP_8 move the mouse up 20 pixels and KP_8 move it up 10 pixels).
Anyway, I'll go put together the patch and then post it here and on the
bbkeys list.
-Roy
