Fluxbox

I don't have a clear answer. My pure guess is that the X server is doing an
exclusive grab on the keyboard device, so the other X server can't get
events from it. You might be able to look at the "GrabDevice" option, make
sure it's turned off. You could also try different keyboard drivers for your
X  (e.g. make sure it's using evdev with /dev/input/something).  Another
interesting to search around is *EVIOCGRAB (an ioctl).*

This page has a pile of links and references if you want to play. The modern
stuff is at the end.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/multiuser/

But trying to use one keybaord with 2 servers is different to most of the
multiseat stuff: it's an awkward problem.

Good luck, hopefully someone else knows or you can get it working :-)

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:09 PM, <spam.spam.spam.spam@...> wrote:

> When the video game is in window mode, Alt+Tab doesn't work again...
> I plug a new USB keyboard but Alt+Tab doesn't work again...
> The video game hasn't a little text console (pressing "~"), so Alt+Tab
> doesn't
> work again...
> So the only thing I can do is to open two X sessions (see below).
> But why I lose the keyboard and mouse events on the first X session ?
>
> Quoting Simon Bowden <simon@...>:
>
> > It's probably a "feature" that the game locks the keyboard (and x-server)
> > during play.
> >
> > I know some games (enemy territory for instance) releases the full X lock
> > when you bring up the little text console (pressing "~"), at which point
> you
> > can alt-tab, and ctrl-alt-F7 to your heart's content. You might want to
> see
> > if your video game can do likewise. A related option might be the
> > "fullscreen" option, but really depends on the game engine.
> >
> > You could possibly make something work with an entirely separate keyboard
> > device :-)
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:01 AM, <spam.spam.spam.spam@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I am writing a guide for a video game.
> > > I would like to switch between my video game's window and my text
> editor's
> > > window a lot of times.
> > > The problem is : Alt+Tab shortcut doesn't work when the video game is
> > > running.
> > >
> > > I found a solution : open two X sessions. The first session run the
> game.
> > > The
> > > second session run the text editor. Then I can switch using Ctrl+Alt+F7
> and
> > > Ctrl+Alt+F8.
> > >
> > > This is how I do :
> > > $ startx &
> > > $ startx -- :1 &
> > >
> > > The problem is when I go the the first session using Ctrl+Alt+F7, my
> > > keyboard
> > > doesn't work on fluxbox, my mouse cursor move but when I click on the
> > > desktop
> > > nothing happened.
> > >
> > > Can you help me to switch between windows on fluxbox?
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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On Sunday July 4, 2010 9:40:47 am Kete wrote:
> I 
> also moved it
By "moved it", I meant the [exec] lines only.

You can't inline the script. The wiki is helping you make a shell script to
call from the menu.

You need to put the #!/bin/sh ... stuff in a file, make it executable, then
call that in your exec:

$ cat > ~/bin/my-shutdown.sh << EOF
#!/bin/sh
gdmflexiserver -a -c 'SET_LOGOUT_ACTION HALT'
kill -TERM $(xprop -root _BLACKBOX_PID | awk '{print $3}')
EOF
$ chmod +x ~/bin/my-shutdown.sh

Then [exec] (Shutdown) { ~/bin/my-shutdown.sh }

Cheers,

 - Simon

On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Kete <kwfj@...> wrote:

> Hello,
> I put Shutdown in my menu and clicked on Reconfigure, but clicking on
> Shutdown doesn't shut down the computer. I'm using xdm in Debian, and
> here is my .fluxbox/menu:
> [begin] (fluxbox)
> [include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)
> [exec] (Shutdown) { #!/bin/sh
>  gdmflexiserver -a -c 'SET_LOGOUT_ACTION HALT'
>  kill -TERM $(xprop -root _BLACKBOX_PID | awk '{print $3}') }
> [end]
> That's based on
> http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Shutdown_computer_with_dialog I
> also moved it to /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu and clicked Reconfigure,
> but it still didn't work.
>
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On 7/4/10, Simon Bowden <simon@...> wrote:
> You can't inline the script. The wiki is helping you make a shell script to
> call from the menu.
>
> You need to put the #!/bin/sh ... stuff in a file, make it executable, then
> call that in your exec:
>
> $ cat > ~/bin/my-shutdown.sh << EOF
> #!/bin/sh
> gdmflexiserver -a -c 'SET_LOGOUT_ACTION HALT'
> kill -TERM $(xprop -root _BLACKBOX_PID | awk '{print $3}')
> EOF
> $ chmod +x ~/bin/my-shutdown.sh
>
> Then [exec] (Shutdown) { ~/bin/my-shutdown.sh }
>
> Cheers,
>
>  - Simon
>
> On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Kete <kwfj@...> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I put Shutdown in my menu and clicked on Reconfigure, but clicking on
>> Shutdown doesn't shut down the computer. I'm using xdm in Debian, and
>> here is my .fluxbox/menu:
>> [begin] (fluxbox)
>> [include] (/etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu)
>> [exec] (Shutdown) { #!/bin/sh
>>  gdmflexiserver -a -c 'SET_LOGOUT_ACTION HALT'
>>  kill -TERM $(xprop -root _BLACKBOX_PID | awk '{print $3}') }
>> [end]
>> That's based on
>> http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?title=Shutdown_computer_with_dialog I
>> also moved it to /etc/X11/fluxbox/fluxbox-menu and clicked Reconfigure,
>> but it still didn't work.

It's been years that I use the following:

        [submenu] (Exit-Menu) {}
                [exec] (Lock) {xlock}
                [exit] (Logout)
!               [exec] (Suspend-Disk) {sudo ifdown eth0 && sudo
acpitool -S && sudo ifup eth0}
                [exec] (Suspend-Disk) {sudo swapoff -a && sudo swapon
-a && sudo acpitool -S}
                [exec] (Suspend-Mem) {sudo acpitool -s}
!               [exec] (Reboot) {sudo reboot}
                [exec] (Reboot) {sudo shutdown -r now "Sutdown:
Rebooting now..."}
!               [exec] (Shutdown) {sudo halt}
                [exec] (Shutdown) {sudo shutdown -h -P now "Shutdown:
Shuting down now..."}
        [end]

Of course I have reboot, halt and shutdown as entries in /etc/sudoers
for me so I don't have to provide password, :-)

-- 
Javier.