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Hi:

I developed a little application that grabs the keyboard and sends
keystroke events to using XSendEvent() to the window with the pointer.
Here are some of my observations:

1. if I set event.xany.window = RootWindow(display, screen_num), then
it works under KDE but no GNOME apps. work.

2. if I don't set anything, then GNOME applications work but not KDE
apps.

3. In either case, no standard Xt applications work. i.e. xterm,
Netscape, etc.

Is there someone out there who can shed some light on this behavior.

Thanks.

Dinesh

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Before you buy.

Try using the constant "PointerWindow" instead of specifying the window
directly.
This lets the server decide which window gets the event based on what window has
the pointer focus.

You really don't want to be sending keystrokes to the "root" window do you?
The window portion of the event structyure if for specifying which window
"receives" the event.

For any app to get keystrokes the event has to go to a window in the app's
window hierarchy which has selected to recieve that type of event.

Hope this helps...

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Kevin Holbrook
Developer
Metrowerks, a Motorola Company