Re: Stop alt-spacebar window menu

[Bill Farmer <williamjfarmer tiscali co uk>]

I've just tried this. It captures the keyboard ok, no other windows get 
any keyboard input until you quit the app, but it doesn't stop the 
alt-spacebar thing. I don't think it can be done. I've just tried emacs, 
which is the application that captures all known keystrokes, and a few 
more you didn't know about, but it doesn't stop that one. The win32 
version does.

Thanks for the help - Bill

Michael L Torrie wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>   
> > Well, you have a couple choices:
> >     
>
> Actually there is a third option.  You can grab the focus like VMWare or
> DosEMU does and prevent any keystrokes from going to the WM.  Of course
> you'll have to provide a way to release the grab.
>
> I believe the API is in GdkDisplay area[1].  Look for calls involving
> keyboard_grab.
>
> [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gdk/stable/GdkDisplay.html
>
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