Re: GUI-less app to capture key_press_events only

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* Eric Lenio <eric lenio net> [2004-10-05 16:52]:
> I have an unusual situation where I want my app to merely
> capture key_press_events, without having any kind of GUI.
> Is it possible to do this with Gtk2?

There are programs that capture keys globally, so it is possible
in X11 at least; whether Gtk2 provides a means to do it, I don't
know though.

> If you're wondering why I don't just read from standard input,
> it is because I want to capture when the control key is
> pressed.  That is, the control key is pressed by itself.  I
> also want to do the same for the shift key and mod key.

That sounds like what you want is curses. There is a wrapper
module for that on CPAN.

Regards,
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