Re: Rootless: how to get wm menu?

["Keith D. Tyler" <keith at keithtyler dot com>]

Danilo Turina was recently quoted as saying...
> 
> With WindowMaker, I select one of the applications running under X and 
> then press F12.
> I think it's the only way.
> 
>  > How do I open the X11 window-manager menu when working in rootless mode?
>  > When clicking a mouse button on the background, I get a Windows menu.
>  > There should be a small area or special icon as an event proxy for the
>  > missing X11 background.

You could run an app that shows some root window space. Try running
Xeyes. The rootless mode doesnt include the X shape mask of xeyes in the
Windows shape map for rootless mode, so the corners of xeyes should be
usable as root window click-space.

The other way, which is what I've done in my fvwm, is to move your root
window menus to an always-visible location, like opened from a titlebar
button.

HTH,

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