Re: [Groff] gxditview question

[joerg van den hoff]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 12:09:12PM +0100, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > I small point: I've noted that `gxditview' (the same holds for
> > `xditview') does not recognize any user input (keyboard or
> > mouse) as long as the mouse cursor is in the 'decoration
> > frame' provided by the window manager or in the bottom line
> > (where the page number is displayed) of the gxditview display.
> > 
> > for one, this seems in contrast to the behaviour of nearly
> > everything else (except `xditview'). more important it gets in
> > the way when you change focus to the `gxditview' window via
> > the keyboard (at least with the `ion3' window manager (you
> > like `vi' for editing? than you should try that one!) each
> > focus change via the keyboard positions the mouse cursor into
> > the title bar and one is forced to move it into the window to
> > use `gxditview'.  that somehow neutralizes the advantage of
> > navigating the different windows via the keyboard.
> 
> I think I'll stick with gwm.
> 
> > obvious question: is someone smart enough (I'm not...) to see
> > whether making `gxditview' behave in the usual way (allow
> > navigation as soon as the window gets focus: `gv' and `xpdf',
> > `xterm', `rxvt', for instance, do that) would be a trivial
> > change to the source or difficult?
> 
> You can fix it without changing the source at all:
> 
>  1. Find the application defaults file "GXditview.ad".
> 
>  2. Make a copy of the block beginning with
>     "GXditview.paned.viewport.dvi.translations",
>     change "GXditview.paned.viewport.dvi.translations" to
>     "GXditview.paned.translations", and edit the bindings
>     to your preferences (e.g., remove the <Btn1Down> entry
>     - you wouldn't want to pop up the menu while pressing a
>     mouse button in the scrollbar). Since the bindings are
>     hierarchical, you can even clean up the duplicates a bit.
>     Here's what I just changed mine to:
> 
>       GXditview.paned.translations: #augment \
>               <Key>Next:      NextPage()\n\
>               <Key>n:         NextPage()\n\
>               <Key>space:     NextPage()\n\
>               <Key>Return:    NextPage()\n\
>               <Key>Prior:     PreviousPage()\n\
>               <Key>p:         PreviousPage()\n\
>               <Key>b:         PreviousPage()\n\
>               <Key>BackSpace: PreviousPage()\n\
>               <Key>Delete:    PreviousPage()\n\
>               <Key>g:         SelectPage()\n\
>               <Key>o:         OpenFile()\n\
>               <Key>r:         Rerasterize()\n\
>               <Key>q:         Quit()
>       GXditview.paned.viewport.dvi.translations: #augment \
>               <Btn1Down>:     XawPositionSimpleMenu(menu) MenuPopup(menu)
>       GXditview.paned.label.translations: #augment \
>               <Btn1Down>:     XawPositionSimpleMenu(menu) MenuPopup(menu)
> 
>  3. Load the new stuff into the resource database of the
>     running X server with "xrdb -override GXditview.ad".
> 
> Number 3 has to be done every time you restart the X server
> (or you specify particular resources to gxditview with -xrm).
> It is possible that you already have a personal X resource
> file ".Xdefaults" that is automatically loaded by the login
> procedure - you can put the stuff there instead.
> 
> 
> 
> 
works perfect! (only I did not add this to .Xdefaults but rather
kept the whole stuff in a local copy `GXditview' 
of the defaults file in my home dir which is honored by gxditview on startup).

thanks a lot 

joerg