Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?
On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 0:26 Brad Sawatzky wrote: > On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Harry Putnam wrote: > > [ . . . ] > > Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input > > box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key > > presses aimed at the base window and print them in that small input > > window. What you are describing sounds to me like a non-English-language character composer. Eg Japanese uses such to compose kanji characters from components typed one by one on the keyboard. Chinese uses one too, and so do many other languages, especially languages that need double-byte characters. Have you, or could something have, installed any foreign languages recently? Mark
Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?
On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Harry Putnam wrote: [ . . . ] > Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input > box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key > presses aimed at the base window and print them in that small input > window. [ . . . ] > I wasn't able to tell which program it is by examining the autostart > programs ... can anyone tell me what that is that is running so I can > turn it off? Look in the Settings for your windowing environment for keyboard shortcuts. Sometimes they are under a 'Keyboard' entry, sometimes under 'Window Manager', etc. I generally have to unbind some default settings in those config screens so I can rebind those key combos under xbindkeys. HTH, -- Brad
Re: What program is capturing key press on root window of X?
Harry Putnam (12019-07-18): > Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input > box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key > presses aimed at the base window and print them in that small input > window. > > Since I have run the `xbindkeys' program (An keybinding program that > takes its intput from key presses in base window and calls programs > thru a control script ~/.xbindkeys.scm), this new key grabbing program > that seems to run at startup is ruining that whole process. > > I wasn't able to tell which program it is by examining the autostart > programs ... can anyone tell me what that is that is running so I can > turn it off? If you can see a window, then xprop may be able to tell you more about its owner, if it is polite. You can also get the list of all grabs with: xdotool key XF86LogGrabInfo (or any equivalent way of pressing an unusual key) and reading /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Regards, -- Nicolas George signature.asc Description: PGP signature
What program is capturing key press on root window of X?
cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="9" VERSION="9 (stretch)" ID=debian (running LXDE desktop) Somewhere in the last few months my Debian OS has acquired an input box on upper right of base window (in X) that appears to grab any key presses aimed at the base window and print them in that small input window. Since I have run the `xbindkeys' program (An keybinding program that takes its intput from key presses in base window and calls programs thru a control script ~/.xbindkeys.scm), this new key grabbing program that seems to run at startup is ruining that whole process. I wasn't able to tell which program it is by examining the autostart programs ... can anyone tell me what that is that is running so I can turn it off?
