Re: How can I hook into any X input events sent to my app?

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

You can do the unintuitive thing of passing NULL as the first argument to gdk_window_add_filter to get all events delivered to your app.

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Woody Wu <narkewoody gmail com> wrote:

On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:47:16AM -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> You can use an event filter; see gdk_window_add_filter.

Thanks.  Can a filter registered to a window see all the events
dispatching to its children windows? Otherwise, I have to register the
filter for every window ever opened in my app.

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> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Woody Wu <narkewoody gmail com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > In my application, I want to record how much longer user has not did
> > anything, including key pressing and mouse pressing in any area of any
> > of my windows.
> >
> > If I can hook into the very core the event dispatching, then I can
> > recored a timestamp. In other place of my application, I can check this
> > timestamp and decide if I should do something.
> >
> > How can I accomplish this with GTK+?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
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