On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 09:28:47PM +0200, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote: > > george> When converting my system to SuSE 8.2 Pro, I noticed that > george> GNOME2 has this cool facility where you can press and release > george> the control key (with no other keys) and it will put this > george> little graphic around the mouse pointer on the screen for a > george> second. > george> > george> Help locate that little bugger with something besides wigglin' > george> it... > > Hmm, shouldn't the same thing be possible to do with a utility that > grabs the keyboard, reacts with the cure wiggle when ctrl is pressed, > and sends on all events to the WM?
That app would have to process all the keyboard input and pass along to the WM what it doesn't care for. Basically, the same thing that the WM does, but it only has a single client for forwarding, it doesn't need to know the locations of other apps on the screen...
