Dear Hendrick,
Thanks for pointing out that this issue has been raised before on the
fvwm mailing list:
https://www.mail-archive.com/fvwm@lists.math.uh.edu/msg16901.html
Indeed the problem Raphael describes seem identical to the one I have
with fvwm 2.6.5 inside tightvncserver on Debian.
Unfortunately I must report that I still did not find a solution to the
problem. I still keep fvwm pinned at version 2.5.30 which does bind the
hotkeys on my systems also within a VNC server. You can easily install
the older version using the package from Debian Wheezy and then hold it
using aptitude. This does not affect any other packages on my Debian
systems.
On the Debian list they say:
So after all, this bug may have been triggered by a change in VNC
rather than in FVWM.
I don't see how Fvwm can help.
Try the VNC folks.
Well, before we jump to fast conclusions, I want to emphasize once more
that, on my headless FreeBSD server, I run fvwm 2.6.5 inside
tightvncserver 1.3.10 with all keybindings working perfectly (including
Ctrl-Space). So it definitely is technically possible to get those two
programs to work together as they should. And as TightVNC 1.3.10 has
stopped evolving many years ago, I still wonder if the bug is not
related to the specific way how fvwm 2.6.5 is packaged for Debian.
Someone with more knowledge of the build processes could actually look
at how the FreeBSD ports maintainers make their builds. See
https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/fvwm2/
https://www.freshports.org/net/tightvnc/
For convenience, I attach the Makefile which is used to automatically
build fvwm (2.6.5 as of today) on my FreeBSD system. That built has
always been binding keys correctly in the VNC server.
Yours,
Claude
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# Created by: peter
# $FreeBSD: head/x11-wm/fvwm2/Makefile 394508 2015-08-17 14:20:40Z mat $
PORTNAME= fvwm
PORTVERSION= 2.6.5
PORTREVISION= 7
CATEGORIES= x11-wm
MASTER_SITES= ftp://ftp.fvwm.org/pub/fvwm/version-2/ \
http://www.fvwm.org/generated/icon_download/
DISTFILES= ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
EXTRACT_ONLY= ${DISTNAME}${EXTRACT_SUFX}
MAINTAINER= c...@freebsd.org
COMMENT= Popular virtual window manager for X
RUN_DEPENDS= gm4:${PORTSDIR}/devel/m4
# Other ports this port cannot coexist with
CONFLICTS?= fvwm-1.* fvwm-2.[457].*
GNU_CONFIGURE= yes
CONFIGURE_ARGS= --disable-mandoc --without-gnome --disable-gtk
USES= gmake perl5 pkgconfig tar:bzip2
USE_XORG= xcursor xft xinerama xpm xrender
OPTIONS_DEFINE= ICONS ICONV STROKE RPLAY SESSION_MGMT PNG SVG BIDI NLS
OPTIONS_DEFAULT=ICONS ICONV SESSION_MGMT PNG
OPTIONS_SUB= yes
STROKE_DESC= support for mouse gestures
RPLAY_DESC= RPlay support in FvwmEvent
SESSION_MGMT_DESC= Session Management support
BIDI_DESC= Asian bi-directional text support
PLIST_SUB= FVWM_VERSION="${PORTVERSION}"
.include <bsd.port.options.mk>
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MICONS}
FVWM_ICONS= fvwm_icons-20070101
DISTFILES+= ${FVWM_ICONS}.tar.bz2
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MICONV}
USES+= iconv
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-iconv
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MSTROKE}
LIB_DEPENDS+= libstroke.so:${PORTSDIR}/devel/libstroke
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-stroke-library=${LOCALBASE}/lib \
--with-stroke-includes=${LOCALBASE}/include
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --without-stroke-library
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MRPLAY}
LIB_DEPENDS+= librplay.so:${PORTSDIR}/audio/rplay
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-rplay-library=${LOCALBASE}/lib \
--with-rplay-includes=${LOCALBASE}/include
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --without-rplay-library
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MSESSION_MGMT}
USE_XORG+= sm
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-sm
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MPNG}
LIB_DEPENDS+= libpng.so:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/png
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-png-includes=${LOCALBASE}/include \
--with-png-library=${LOCALBASE}/lib
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --without-png-library
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MSVG}
USE_GNOME+= librsvg2
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-rsvg
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MBIDI}
LIB_DEPENDS+= libfribidi.so:${PORTSDIR}/converters/fribidi
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --enable-bidi \
--with-bidi-bindir=${LOCALBASE}/bin
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-bidi
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MNLS}
USES+= gettext
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-intl-library=${LOCALBASE}/lib \
--with-intl-includes=${LOCALBASE}/include
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --disable-nls
.endif
.include <bsd.port.pre.mk>
.if empty(ICONV_LIB)
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--without-iconv-library
.else
CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-iconv-library=${ICONV_PREFIX}/lib \
--with-iconv-includes=${ICONV_PREFIX}/include
.endif
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MICONS}
post-extract:
@${MKDIR} ${WRKDIR}/icons
@${TAR} -xzf ${DISTDIR}/${FVWM_ICONS}.tar.bz2 -C ${WRKDIR}/icons
.endif
post-patch:
@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e 's,%%LOCALBASE%%,${LOCALBASE},' \
${WRKSRC}/modules/FvwmM4/FvwmM4.c
post-install:
${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKSRC}/sample.fvwmrc/system.fvwm2rc \
${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/etc/system.fvwm2rc.dist
.if ${PORT_OPTIONS:MICONS}
${MKDIR} ${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/fvwm/pixmaps
${INSTALL_DATA} ${WRKDIR}/icons/${FVWM_ICONS}/*.xpm \
${STAGEDIR}${PREFIX}/share/fvwm/pixmaps
.endif
.include <bsd.port.post.mk>
