Re: Intercepting X events cleanly?

["Gustavo J. A. M. " Carneiro <gjc inescporto pt>]

On Ter, 2003-03-11 at 20:55, Ramkumar Chinchani wrote:
> I am just trying to intercept X events cleanly and show a menu popup when
> a button click happens on the root window.
>
> If I use gdk_window_add_filter(), then I intercept all events before they
> get delivered to GDK. If I do a *gtk_menu_popup* at this point, Xlib
> complains.
>
> Is there a cleaner way of doing things?

  Yes:  don't do it! :)
  Really, only window managers are allowed to do such things.  In any
case, my knowledge ceases at this point.  Maybe Havoc can tell you more;
I know nothing about WM programming.

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Gustavo João Alves Marques Carneiro
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