On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 11:32:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm laying out a new module and having a little trouble with XEvents. > This might be a purely X issue. > > I want to catch a key press anywhere on the screen, like the Alt key. > It doesn't have to be exclusive. In fact, I want the fvwm core to > read the keys too and act as usual. > > I tried XSelectInput(dpy,rootWindow,KeyPressMask|KeyReleaseMask), > but I never get any events. In fact, for the several masks I've tried, > the only one that did anything was PointerMotionMask. This tells > me my approach is not entirely broken. > > If I can get this to work, I'm not sure I'll get the event > if the mouse is over a non-root window, but that's the next step. > > I can't think of another module that even reads the keyboard, > much less reading keys when not on a window created by the module.
You want to use the XGrabKey() function, not just XSelectInput(). Unfortunately the result *is* exclusive. Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
