On Keys

Mnemonics, Function Keys, and Keyboard Accelerators

Win4Lin windows use menu mnemonics in the standard way. That is, any time a menu is displayed, you can invoke a selection by typing the underlined letter in the selection.

Win4Lin windows do not generally use function keys or keyboard accelerators. When the menu bar is not accessible there are key combinations that make it accessible. The situations are:

To find out what the current Show Menu or Unzoom keys are and to change them for the current session, use the Tune option of the Options menu and click on the Show Menu Key or Unzoom Key buttons.

Windows and applications you run in Win4Lin windows use function keys and accelerators. Any desktop features that use the same function keys or accelerators will use them for the desktop and they will not be available for use by what is running in the Win4Lin window. Some desktop window managers can be configured to change or disable the use of some function keys or accelerators. Refer to the window manager documentation for how this can be done.

Another way to avoid key conflicts with desktop window managers is to use a Win4Lin session without a window manager. This is done with command fwin (Full screen WINdows). What this does is start up a new X server and runs the Win4Lin session as the only client, with no X window manager. This removes all the limitations that result from using a Window manager. When only one client is being used there is no real need for a window manager.

This command can be run from any prompt, and it finds an unused console screen and uses that for your Windows session. There must be an unused console screen available of course for this to work.

You then can adjust the resolution setting of Windows to match the resolution of the virtual console display, so that the entire screen is used for your Windows session.

Killing Your Win4Lin Session

The standard way to shut down a Win4Lin session is:

If the DOS or Windows session does not respond to the standard way of shutting down, then you can select Exit from the Win4Lin window Window menu.