Re: How to capture keystrokes when GTK menu is open?

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 22:34:38 +1100 Justin Clift wrote:

> Whenever any gtk program has it's menu open, keystrokes don't seem to
> be processed for anything other than what's in the menu itself.  i.e.
> the up, down, and enter keys work (and maybe shortcuts), and that's
> it. (These keys move the selection up and down the menu that's open)
>
> There doesn't seem to be a way to gets other keys fed through to
> things expecting them.

Yes, when gtk pops up a menu, it does a keyboard grab to ensure that
the menu gets all key events.

> So, recommendations on what to do from here?  Is there a way to tell
> GTK to feed keystrokes onwards when a menu is open?

I don't believe so, no, but someone else may have a better answer.

> All other suggestions welcome of course. :)

Well, you can do what the Gimp's screenshot app does: allow the user to
start the screenshot process, and then have it delay a couple seconds.
So the usage could be:

1.  Tell the app to do a screenshot in 3 seconds.  (Maybe
ctrl+PrintScreen could be "delayed capture".)
2.  Pop up the menu.
3.  Wait.
4.  App takes screenshot.

        -brian

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