On 2007-02-11, Renee Klawitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to send a keystroke to an unfocused window ?
If you write a program to send it, yes. The target window might not want to handle it, though. And you can't easily target a particular widget. (Modern crap tends to have its own [broken][1] focus tracking code, though, and handle all events as if they were sent to their top-level windows.) Ion does not have a function to send arbitrary keypresses, and I'm not sure I want it there. It really isn't the job of a window manager. It's an ugly hack. Even quote_next is a huge concession to programs with brain-damaged bindings. (Plus it is difficult to do with an external program, because there would have to be a moment where the keyboard is not grabbed between Ion/X releasing the grab for the quote_next prefix, and the program obtaining one for getting the next key. But there is no such problem in sending predefined sequences.) [1]: http://iki.fi/tuomov/ion/faq/entries/GTK2_focus_bug.html -- Tuomo
