hi guys, for my first post, a quick question 
basically, I’ve been using blackbox but its not configurable enough so I switched to fvwm.
problem: I would like ALT+Mouse1=move and ALT+Mouse2=resize anywhere in a window, but the fvwm man says X11 cant do this with just a click-drag-release.
anyone have any insight into this?
Hi,
I dont´t think its possible.
The Window (Title, Border) is managed by the windowmanager, but everything inside by the Widget-Library (Qt, Gtk+, Fox and others).
As these libraries work very different internally, there is no way the windowmanager might get a “specified signal”.
If the wm would handle the ALT-event, it would not work in the Application any more (often ALT is used to open the main-menue).
You can try this in KDE, open a Konsole, run “mc”, and get irritated as the keys don´t work.
this means you would have to implement this on the application-level, I wrote a small iconbar you can drag around even without title-bar, but I had to implement my own mouse-eventhandlers to realize this.
Greets, Mark
thanks for the quick reply Mark
pity though… I wonder how blackbox does it 
Maybe blackbox has an option to override the application handlers.
Maybe Fvwm can do this, too.
I hope someone else can tell you how to do it, this just were theoretical thoughts, maybe there is a practical solution 
Fvwm supports Mouse-gestures if I read it right.
Mark
oh well, I decided to use the same combos (ALT-mouse1/ALT-mouse3 actually) but its click once to start, click again to confirm… close enough
Hmm stupid me…
Mouse 1 W M FuncFvwmMoveOrRaiseOrShade
Mouse 2 W M FuncFvwmResizeOrRaiseOrShade
its so simple 
I had a look in /usr/share/fvwm/themes/default/bindings (of fvwm-themes), there is an explanation.
M stands for ALT
C for Control.
W for “Application Windows”
Mouse 2 is the middle-button.
Greets, Mark
does that require 1 or 2 mouse clicks for the move/size operation?
1 click.
You click the Window, and move/resize while leaving the mousebutton pressed.
You can release ALT while moving/resizing
Resizing works slow on my system, but that might have to do with the shadows (xcompmgr on 2 monitors)
Ah I see… it is not slow.
I have to move the mousepointer outside the Window and back, before it resizes.
ah, i just noticed you said fvwm-themes, which im not using currently