Re: Hooking into the input queue(?)

[Jan <jandersen informatica com>]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:15:06 +0000, Jan <jandersen informatica com> wrote:
> [...]
>  > I know that in the earlier versions of Windows an application could hook
>  > in to different places in the system, among others the keyboard message
>  > queue, and I assume this is what the producers of this game did. How
>  > would one do the same in Gnome?
>
> I think you are looking for something like this:
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-General.html#gtk-key-snooper-install
>
> The prerequisite is that the application in question has to have keyboard forcus
> somewhere (i.e. the keyboard snooper approach lets you get key input events
> that are delivered to your application before they get delivered to
> particular widgets
> such as text entries etc.)
>
> I think that to get "global" key input then you have to fool around with
> the terminal that X is running in and kind of tee the output, there might be
> some kind of inittab entry for that or something.
Yes, it is this global approach I am after - it has to be possible 
somehow. I assume the X server is the one that captures the physical 
keystrokes and sends them to - the window manager? Or directly to the 
application?

/jan