Subject: Re: FVWM: virtual caps lock LED for a laptop

From: Dan Espen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:38:24 -0400

Josin Etienne <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> hi,  i am running redhat 6.1"s fvwm2 on a laptop which does not
> have LEDs for the CAPS and NUM lock keys.
> 
> i got xkbvleds running (i hacked the binary to make the
> on state "red"). 
> 
> the thing is that the virtual LEDs are pretty small, and
> it seems there is no way --via the command line-- to make them
>  bigger. 
> i  do not have xkbvled"s source code and i am in a place of the
> world where i cannot even dream of downloading the 
> tar.gz files that i would need.  (i was told i would need to 
> download  a 21 MB file)
> 
> so the question is: is there a functionality within fvwm2 
> which i could use to create my own virtual LEDs ?  I think
> that if i get a hook to monitor the keys, i could write something
> in QT to display virtual LEDs of a bigger size than those of
> xkbvled.
> 
> thanks for any tips, insights, etc. ! - josin

fvwm (and window managers in general), don't monitor all keystrokes.

21MB sounds large for a source distribution, maybe what you were told
about the download size wasn't correct.

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