Re: exclude programs from input device grabs

2009-01-11 Thread Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann
Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 05:23:24PM +, Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann wrote: I searched around a bit and found that my WM (awesome) already grabs the root window and still becomes unresponsive with a menu clicked or a game running. Could

Re: exclude programs from input device grabs

2009-01-10 Thread Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann
everything I wanted to achieve has already be done. Greetings, Patrick On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 10:08:09 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 10:48:48PM +, Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann wrote: I want that a chosen application (in my case a hotkey daemon

Re: exclude programs from input device grabs

2009-01-08 Thread Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann
the same feature twice, right? If this is the case I will try to bring XEvIE back. Greets, Patrick On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:28:32 +1000 Peter Hutterer peter.hutte...@who-t.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:55:58PM +, Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann wrote: I'd like to program a mechanism

Re: exclude programs from input device grabs

2009-01-08 Thread Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann
want applications not to receive the events, you can change the core pointer mapping. If I understood Peter correctly, come XI 2.0, this won't be necessary anymore since grabs will temporarily detach the slave device. Tom Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann wrote: I searched around a bit. Did

exclude programs from input device grabs

2009-01-07 Thread Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann
Hello, this is my first post to this list, so hi everyone. I'd like to program a mechanism for the xserver that allows certain programs to recieve input events even when they are grabbed by another program. This would allow X keygrabbers to work even when other programs grabbed the keyboard (eg.