Re: Keys combinations interception

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 12:26, Tornado wrote:
> How can i intercept a key pressed in any application and in the X Window
> system?  I've already tried gdk_event_get(); but it doesn't work and
> i tried also the key snooper but it intercepts only the key on its own
> window
> I'd like to intercepts a combination of keys (ex: CTRL+k) in all
> the X window system like a keylogger Is it possible?

You'll need to use Xlib and XGrabKey() directly ... GTK+ doesn't
try to wrap this stuff.

metacity, gnome-panel, gnome-settings-daemon (in control-center), etc,
are examples of GTK+ programs that do this.

Regards,
                                         Owen