* Chris Siebenmann <[email protected]> [2019-08-29 16:11 -0400]:
I've searched the website, archives, wiki, and a number of configuration websites, and have been unable to find a way to cause an action to happen when a modifier key is held down and/or released. I'm running fvwm 2.6.8 on CentOS 7.It's possible that you'll be able to build an interface similar to what you want to do with the xcape program combined with some FVWM configuration tricks: https://github.com/alols/xcape
Interesting: this might be useful, thank you!
This gets you a way to get a preview, but it doesn't give you the kind of UI flow that you were interested in initially. You'd be doing 'tap something, look, hit Ctrl-Alt arrow key to act, tap to dismiss' or the like, instead of being able to start out by holding down Ctrl-Alt, waiting, and then continuing with another key. (Possibly you can contrive more FVWM functions and FvwmEvents settings and so on so that the pager is automatically dismissed after the desk changes, or just after a timeout time.)
I think my "see the pager just before I decide which way to go" ideal may have to fall to the pragmatic "see the pager just after I decide which way to go so I can verify the direction, distance, etc. of the journey." I'll keep chugging away at it, though, because I think it'll be useful if I can get it to work. Regards, -dave
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