I want that a chosen application (in my case a hotkey daemon) receives all input device events even when they are grabbed by other applications. Even though I don't yet know the X internals, I guess this is not done by simply grabbing all input devices. This would allow any program to overhear passwords. Greetings, Patrick
On Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:44:21 -0500 Thomas Jaeger <[email protected]> wrote: > What is it exactly that you want to do? If you just want to be > notified of key presses, all you have to do is grab the key on all > the extended input devices. In xserver 1.6, if you also want > applications not to receive the events, you can change the core > pointer mapping. If I understood Peter correctly, come XI 2.0, this > won't be necessary anymore since grabs will temporarily detach the > slave device. > > Tom > > Patrick Sebastian Zimmermann wrote: > > I searched around a bit. > > Did I get it right, that mpx changed the entire input part of X and > > therefor XEvIE didn't work anymore and was removed. mpx does not > > provide anything like input redirection, so bringing back XEvIE > > based on the new input logic mpx brings would not result in > > implementing the same feature twice, right? > > If this is the case I will try to bring XEvIE back. > > > > Greets, > > Patrick > > > > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:28:32 +1000 > > Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 02:55:58PM +0000, Patrick Sebastian > >> Zimmermann wrote: > >>> I'd like to program a mechanism for the xserver that allows > >>> certain programs to recieve input events even when they are > >>> grabbed by another program. This would allow X keygrabbers to > >>> work even when other programs grabbed the keyboard (eg. most > >>> programs when having a menu open, and most games). > >> XEvIE probably was the closest thing here. Except that it was > >> broken and removed recently. A reimplementation on top of the new > >> input code probably won't be frowned upon. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Peter > >> _______________________________________________ > >> xorg mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> xorg mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
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