Hello dfaber, I had the same problem not long ago. I tried to use the Xlib since its obvious the X server has all the events but I couldn't have the mouse events if my app was out of focus. If you have a way to do that I'm really interested.
Anyway I found this to be a good introduction to Xlib: http://users.actcom.co.il/~choo/lupg/tutorials/xlib-programming/xlib-programming.html#preface Since I didn't find a way to do it I went down to the source of the events which are provided by the evdev drivers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evdev Fortunately you can use Python to access it: http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/python/evdev/ First you need to know your input devices, search the eventX in relation to your device here: cat /proc/bus/input/devices Then you can do: sudo python evdev.py /dev/input/eventX # where X is the event number in relation to your device (kb is usually zero) It works well but there is two problems with this solution: - the root access is annoying (but I'll have to try Diez suggestion) - The X event number of the mouse can change from a PC to another one (you need to check the PC first with that cat command and search for your "mouse" francois dfaber wrote: > Hi all, > I have been searching for a keyboard and mouse tracker on linux. I've > read solutions (watch at sourceforge) which look at /proc/interrupts to > check keyboard or mouse activity. I also read one post where "watch" > seems to have difficulty tracking usb keyboards and mice. So, I'm out > of ideas here. > > My goal are: > 1. Check keyboard activity. I'm not interested in logging which keys > are pressed or record them. > 2. Monitor mouse activity. I want to know the pointer position, > left-clicks, right-clicks, middle-mouse button usage. > > I know that these things can be done in a GUI environment. I am looking > for some approach that helps me do this system-wide. > > Any suggestions would be welcome. Again, I am looking for trackers on > Linux based machines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
