TinyWM not working under Xephyr

Portal · 02-18-2020, 05:55 PM

I am trying to get TinyWM (http://incise.org/tinywm.html) to work. I ran

Code:

Xephyr -ac -screen 1280x1024 -br -reset -terminate 2> /dev/null :1 &

And then

Code:

DISPLAY=:1 ./tinywm &

,where tinywm is compiled with

Code:

gcc tinywm.c -g -o tinywm -lX11

From the new xsession, I opened chromium. I can't, however, move/resize the chromium window with Alt+Left/Right mouse button, as stated on its website. Am I doing something wrong? The code for TinyWM looks like the key-bindings should work as well.

GazL · 02-28-2020, 03:36 AM

Most likely the keypresses are being intercepted by the hosting Window manager of display :0 and the nested Xephyr and Tinywm within never sees them.

To get this to work, you'll need to find a window manager for the host session that allows you to control which keys it grabs, or which allows you to disable key grabs when a specific window has focus.