Re: Getting keyboard state.

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

There are two reliable ways of getting keyboard state:

1. Track the events, as has already been suggested.  This is the easiest
   solution.

2. Get messy and use Xlib functions directly.  This is a bit more complicated
   than it sounds.  You need a combination of XQueryKeymap() and
   XGetModifierMapping() to determine if a Shift key is pressed.
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