on Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:49:09AM +0200, stu insinuated:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 16:20:16 -0400
> Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > 
> > A friend of mine recently showed me about the ALT + page-up or
> > page-down capability to raise or lower the volume by accessing aumix
> > in WindowMaker.  
> > I'm now trying to implement this on my own system,
> > but can't figure out the keybindings for it in fvwm.
> 
> Start by getting the correct key name for page-up and page-down. Look in
> 
> /usr/include/X11/XF86keysym.h
> /usr/include/X11/keysymdef.h

great.  i found these by a more careful reading of the manpage, but
they're buried in there!  i've been skimming that manpages every now
and then for months, and never found them :-P

> Use the name but remove the XK_ prefix (in your fvwm2rc)
> 
> > (a) I'm not sure what exactly those keybindings do (what's A?
> > what's N? where are they documented?), and (b) they don't seem to do
> > what I want.
> 
> man fvwm

well, yes, i have been ...

> search for 'Key Keyname Context Modifiers Function'

> > Anyone got any keybinding for the fvwmrc for this?
> 
> My volume control is bound to 'print screen' and 'pause' ala
> 
> Key   Print     A     N     Exec exec aumix -v -5
> Key   Pause     A     N     Exec exec aumix -v +5

awesome; thanks!  now i understand the whole keybindings better, and
have a better idea of where to refer to in the manpage.  i love fvwm,
but i wish the explanation for this were displayed somewhere more
prominent.

thanks agian!

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