On Sunday 26 August 2007 04:36, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 20:42 +0000, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > > I had such a situation some time ago. I was to write a custom app that > > needed *full control* of the keyboard (meaning that no keypress gets > > swallowed by any other app, no matter focus etc), and after reading all > > relevant HOWTOs, I finally understood the process of reading off keyboard > > input. But, there was nothing in the docs telling me how to lock the > > keyboard for my app. So, after some digging, I downloaded the very source > > code for the simple "showkey" program, and studied it. There, and only > > there, I actually found relevant info on what I needed to do in my app. > > After that, life was beautiful... ;-) > > Speaking of such things, do you understand how xmodmap works? No, I don't. I gave up on understanding X keyboard handling. For the purpose of writing my app, it was enough to completely bypass X and read the keyboard stream directly. X has a very complicated while simultaneously very limited (ie. stupid) keyboard controls. It does not make the difference between left ctrl and right ctrl, for example (if the keyboard happens to have both). Same for shift keys. While it is enough for a typical mouse-oriented user, it fails to support anything more advanced in terms of keyboard. :-) Marko Marko Vojinovic Institute of Physics University of Belgrade ====================== e-mail: vmarko@xxxxxxxxxxxx
