Re: "F1" binding on twm failed.

["Christian P. Momon" <Christian dot MOMON at one2team dot com>]

Harold Hunt wrote:
> Christian,
> 
> This question is really off-topic for this mailing list.

  I am not agree (please, see below cause i think Cygwin/XFree
doesn't give events to the window manager and so it is a bug).

 > ...
  Thanks a lot for information links and usage about twm.


> When you press F1 the mouse cursor has to be over the root window
> and the mouse cursor does not change to a black circle like it does with the
> iconify menu command.  However, the next window title that you click on
> (yes, it has to be the title) will get iconified.

  It is the same for me (you did show me the way).

> So, the behavior is a little strange, but I can't tell you if this is
> different than the way binding F1 to inconify would work on, say, Linux.

  I did some tests on a Gnu/Linux (Redhat 7.0):
1/ put mouse cursor on a shell window and press "F1":
a) Cygwin/XFree
Nothing, to iconify a window you must:
     - put the mouse cursor on the root window
     - press "F1"
     - clic on the title window

b) Gnu/Linux/XFree
The window is iconified with one click, on the title of the
window or on the body of the window.

2/ put mouse cursor on the emacs window and press "F1":
a) Cygwin/XFree
Emacs calls the help menu of emacs

b) Gnu/Linux/XFree
The emacs window is iconified.


====> my conclusion:
Cygwin/XFree doesn't give the "F1" event to the window manager.
I consider it is a bug 8-<

In past, the same tests with XWin32 gives good results.

  So, what is wrong ?

  Thanks a lot for any help.

  Cpm.
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