On Saturday, December 17, 2011 11:22:32 PM UTC+8, Alexander Kapps wrote: > On 16.12.2011 05:55, 阮铮 wrote: > > Hi, > > > > A question about Xlib Library in Python troubled me for several days > > and I finally found this email list. I hope someone could answer my > > question. I think it is easy for experienced user. > > > > I would like to write a small script to response my mouse click in > > root screen and write something in the terminal. My script is like > > this, but it does not work in my computer. > > > > from Xlib import X > > import Xlib.display > > > > def main(): > > display = Xlib.display.Display() > > root = display.screen().root > > root.change_attributes(event_mask= > > X.ButtonPressMask | > > X.ButtonReleaseMask) > > while True: > > event = root.display.next_event() > > print "1" > > if __name__ == "__main__": > > main() > > > > > > Any hints are welcome > > Thank you! > > > > Ruan zheng > > > > You haven't said *how* your script is not working and what > distro/desktop-environment you use, but I suspect, that your script > collides with the window manager. > > Most window managers occupy the root window for them self, and even > display another window above the root window (for the wallpaper, the > desktop icons, etc.), so your clicks never reach the root window, > but whatever the window manager draws as the background. > > If you run your script in a plain and naked X "session" with nothing > but an xterm *and no window manager*, your script will probably work.
Check co-linux and VNC and X-windows. It's trivial to play with PYTHON under co-linux. NT, WindowsXP, and Windows7 are excellent in the heap manager of a single process with multiple threads. Linux is multiple-process not multiple threads. Also the brain damaged heap walker is inferior to $$$MS. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
