On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 10:11:24AM +0200, walter harms wrote: > Peter Hutterer schrieb: > > no, actually. this is how input devices work. the physical devices are > > abstracted away through the virtual core pointer. all events go through this > > core pointer device, and if an application grabs it then events are no > > longer sent to anyone else. same with the keyboard. > > hence if you have a rogue grab, all devices seem to stop working. > > but only mouse events are missing, the keyboard seems to work fine > At least i would notice very fast if someone is eating my letters. > > I think it is unlikely that a programm would only grap a mouse but > not the keyboard.
To the extent of my understanding it's the usual thing in X land:
applications (or, rather, toolkits) implement things like popup menus
and drag-and-drop by grabbing only the mouse, while other applications
(e.g. SSH/GPG password dialogs) grab only the keyboard.
Marius Gedminas
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