Re: XTestFakeKeyEvent GDK-equivalent

[Eric Williams <ericwill redhat com>]

Hello,

On 07/05/2018 02:40 PM, Anarchean via gtk-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working into implementing a virtual remote keyboard/touch pad daemon 
> for Linux, currently I'm dumping events into an uinput device, but that 
> is giving me some trouble with my keyboard layout (which is brazillian, 
> br-abnt2). I was looking for a way to this in X, found XTestFakeKeyEvent 
> and was wondering if I could make it simpler and cross-platform using
> GDK3. I tried this attached code, but it doesn't do anything. I was 
> wondering if someone has done this before and know what I'm doing wrong 
> or if I should just give up doing with GDK.

Perhaps something like this? 
https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Testing.html#gdk-test-simulate-key


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Eric Williams
Software Engineer - Eclipse/SWT Team
Red Hat