Re: [wmii] Re: Using wmii with NX

Naren wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using wmii for a few months now, and it has been great. I
> had a question that I couldn't find the answer to. Any help will be
> much appreciated.
>
> I am running wmii on my desktop. Now, there is a remote-session
> manager tool called "NX" which allows one to control a desktop session
> running on a remote machine. What I would like to do, is run wmii on
> the remote desktop as well. You can think of NX as being similar in
> spirit to VNC, but different/better in many ways.
>
> The problem is - when I run the NX client and it brings up the remote
> desktop, my local wmii always captures my keybindings. This can't be
> worked around like other applications, because obviously I'd like the
> same keybindings to work both on the local wmii and the remote wmii.
>
> Is there a way to tell wmii to not capture the keybindings when a
> window is in fullscreen mode or something like that ? What other way
> can I deal with this ?
>
> Thanks a lot for your comments/insight.

Hm, my initial thought is that if you have another (different) modkey
you could use for one of the machines, that way they would not conflict?
        Alex
Received on Tue Oct 28 2008 - 23:45:15 UTC