Re: Preventing Events from being clobbered by WM's

[Pete Collins <pete mozdev org>]

> If the app is a kiosk thing that locks you in to the app, it replaces
> the desktop environment, it doesn't run on top of it. Why bother
> running the environment at all?
>
> Look at OEOne for example: http://www.oeone.com/
>
> They are kiosk-like, and essentially just install as another option 
> at login time, alongside GNOME and KDE.

Yep, i'm well aware of the Oeone project.  This app is not really a 
kiosk, it just needs kiosk type of behavior.

I found the solution and just implemented it using Xlib.

  XGrabKeyboard
  XGrabPointer

Thanks to Ian Bell who pointed me in the right direction.

--pete