Re: GUI-less app to capture key_press_events only

[Eric Lenio <eric lenio net>]

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 05:06:56PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> > 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.

Actually the issue is related to the Curses.pm module: the problem is that
Curses does NOT trigger an event by pressing the control (or shift or mod) key
by itself.  I fumbled my way through building a very simple Gtk2 app which did
recognize the event.  But that little test app had a Gtk window, and I want to
get away from having any window.