Rémi Denis-Courmont schrieb: > On Thursday 28 January 2010 10:33:20 ext Stefan Iwanowitsch, you wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> I've tried to figure out for some days, how I can capture ALL key events >> even if I have no focus on my window or if my app is running without GUI. >> > If you actually want to steal the keyboard input from other application, you > would normally send a GrabKeyboard request to the X server (XGrabKeyboard via > Xlib or xcb_grab_keyboard via XCB). > > I want normal processing of keyboard events and just want to trigger actions upon certain key combinations/sequences. According to the documentation XGrabKeyboard() seems to prevent further processing in other applications and there is no easy way to re-enqueue key events I'm not interested in. > If you just want to see keyboard input, then you'd open the corresponding > file(s) in /dev/input/. > > Can I read from /dev/input without interfering with other consumers? And do you happen to know, where I can find specs on the input device files?
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