Re: Window behavior and keystroke capture
squiggly foo <[email protected]>
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Hi Gary. Thank you for that! That is exactly what I needed to test. I appreciate your help. 11.06.2020, 03:36, "Gary Jennejohn" <[email protected]>: > On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 12:05:45 -0500 > squiggly foo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lets say that I have two GUI applications running. One running in >> window A and one in window B. >> >> If window A is the active window (ie I clicked on window A and am >> typing into it), then does window B see my keystrokes as I type into >> window A but just ignores them? Or does window B not have access to >> the keystrokes at all? > > It seems like this should fairly easy to test. > > Start xev in window B and then make window A the active window and > enter some text. > > If the keystrokes in window A also went to window B then xev would > see them and report them. > > But that does not happen. > > The focus is in window A and the X server is only sending keystrokes > to that window. > > -- > Gary Jennejohn _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"