[maemo-developers] How to capture ALL key events, no focus/No-GUI

From: Stefan Iwanowitsch stiw at ised.de
Date: Thu Jan 28 12:17:25 EET 2010
Piñeiro schrieb:
> From: Stefan Iwanowitsch <stiw at ised.de>
>
>   
>> Hi everybody,
>> I've tried to figure out for some days, how I can capture ALL key events
>> even if I have no focus on my window or if my app is running without GUI.
>> Failed sofar :(
>> Using Fremantle/Hildon/GTK
>>     
>
> I suppose that you are talking about all key events redirected to your
> app.
>
> You can try to install a key snooper:
>
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-General.html#gtk-key-snooper-install
>
> If you are thinking in all key events in the device, I suppose that
> this would be more complex.
>
> ===
> API (apinheiro at igalia.com)
>   
Key snooping just gives you an early view of key events intended for
your app. As soon as you loose focus you get nothing.
Isn't there perhaps a special window attribute or kind of a top level
where I can attach?!?
 

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