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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Grabbing all events in a frame (with xelb?)
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:01:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k1hdkpd3.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwolgprmy.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 02 Mar 2019 22:26:01 -0500")

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Is there a way to get low-level events like that "natively" in Emacs?
>
> Now without C-level changes, AFAIK.  But those changes are pretty simple
> (I used to have a patch that added such <key>-up events, treated a bit
> like the down-mouse-N events).

Thanks; sounds like that might be useful generally in Emacs?  Any reason
you didn't push that patch?  :-)

I've now made things work for my use case by using the xelb/xcb library
and popping up transparent non-Emacs windows and stuff.  It works, but a
pure Emacs-frame solution would be nice.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-02 15:42 Grabbing all events in a frame (with xelb?) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-03-03  3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-03-05 21:01   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-03-08  6:08     ` Stefan Monnier

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