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. -- _ ( \ _ \ /_ / _ _ Jason Weber (503) 380-7424 \|(\/)())) \/\/(-/_)(-/( Infinite Monkeys Inc. Aloha, Oregon // http://www.imonk.com/baboon [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Canister contains at least 50% recycled material; 15% post-consumer content." -- Pringles Fat-Free (side of can) -- 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]
