Global Key Press

[Nick]

I hope I'm posting this to the right group. I'm trying to develop an
application that will detect a key press even if the window the
application is in is not in focus. If it is possible I want to be
able to run the application in a terminal window and not create any
other windows. I'm programming in C and using Xlib

Thanks,
Nick

[Michel Bardiaux]

Post by Nick
I hope I'm posting this to the right group. I'm trying to develop an
application that will detect a key press even if the window the
application is in is not in focus. If it is possible I want to be
able to run the application in a terminal window and not create any
other windows. I'm programming in C and using Xlib
Thanks,
Nick

This makes no sense to me. The window that receives the key-press events
is ex hypothesis the one having the focus. What exactly are you tring to do?

[gabe]

i believe there are various windowmanagers that allow this... i use fvwm2 and i know it supports it...