Re: How to arbitrarily manipulate key events in X

2010-04-08 Thread wettstein509
Is there any way to do what XEvIE did? It seems to me that the the X Record extension (together with XTEST) could be one possibility. There are some limitations, for example, it is not possible to discard events. But it is possible to caputure all keyboard events, and in contrast to XEvIE, the

Re: How to arbitrarily manipulate key events in X

2010-03-30 Thread meingbg
A manipulation possibility as you describe it would be even better. From what I understand, the X Event Interception Extension once has been a way, but according to the Xorg Wiki, it is dead. Is there any way to do what XEvIE did? Some have suggested XInput2 could replace it. How mature is

Re: How to arbitrarily manipulate key events in X

2010-03-22 Thread wettstein509
I've written a small app that among other things allows me to let any key act as both a modifier key and a character key at the same time. I want to do the same. My approach up to now is to use an input method, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26705 But even if this was