Re: Xlib and mouse events

["Benjamin BOUCHER" <boucher.bn@xxxxxxxxx>]

I tried xev and, correct me if I'm wrong, it can't get mouse clicks on other windows that the one it created itself.
I just made some tests and it can't even get mouse motions events on it, (it detects only mouse motions events on borders and titlebar) probably because my app is a JAVA one (using libVLC through JNA which il a lib that allows to run native code in JAVA).

Btw, xed behavior seems normal to me because, as we can read in the Xlib doc :
"Only one client at a time can select a ButtonPress event, which is associated with the event mask ButtonPressMask."

Since libVLC get these events, what I want to do seems impossible... :(

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Benjamin BOUCHER, le Wed 20 Aug 2008 13:02:22 +0200, a écrit :

> I want to make a C program which capture all mouse events, not only those from
> a window I created myself, is it possible ?

You'll probably be happy reading the source code of xev.

Samuel

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