davis@3d.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) (05/23/91)
I'm trying to write a program that will grab a few keys and handle events from them. This program will not have a window of its own, but I want it to grab events from the specified keys regardless of where the focus is. NB: Before anyone starts flaming about what a bad practice this is, it's just a hack program that I'm going to run on my own system. Anyway, I think it should be possible to just do something like: Display *disp = XOpenDisplay (NULL); XGrabKey (disp, XKeysymToKeycode (disp, XK_Left), AnyModifier, RootWindow (disp, DefaultScreen (disp)), True, GrabModeAsync, GrabModeAsync); However, when I do this, the program crashes inside XNextEvent when I type one of the grabbed keys. Am I allowed to specify the root window as my grab_window? Is there something else I need to do to accomplish this? Thanks. -pd