> I'd like to add a special hotkey feature to the icewm window manager:
> If the user holds down a (function) key for a configurable
> amount of seconds a program will be executed.
>
> Now my problem is how to query the key states in xlib.
>
> My first attempt was using XGrabKey and calculating the time
> between KeyPress and KeyRelease events but this did not work
> because of two problems:
> . Autorepeat must not be set (bad thing)
You can disable autorepeat per key. See man XChangeKeyboardControl
> Can anyone tell me how to query the real state of a specific key
> (Pressed/Released?) with xlib ?
man XQueryKeymap
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