Re: [STUMP] Sending keypress events to an application

[Lionel Flandrin]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 03:09:12PM -0500, Paddy Mullen wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Ben Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Sven, sorry for the delayed (again) response.
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:48:54PM +0100, Sven Hartrumpf wrote:
> >> > If this doesn't work, you may want to try XTest.  There's a
> >> > thread describing its use with stumpwm here:
> >> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/stumpwm-devel/2008-08/msg00014.html
> >>
> >> This sounds interesting, but the links contained in this message
> >> are no longer valid.
> >
> > The xtest support was merged into crhodes' darcs tree, so it's quite
> > possibly already in the clx you're using (unless you're using clisp
> > and new-clx).  Have you tried the example code in the mail?  If that
> > doesn't work, try upgrading your clx install.
> >
> > Ben
> >
> While your at it, how can I monitor incoming key requests, and send
> them along to the focused application.
> 
> I want to have auto-banish functionality, where as soon as you start
> typing, the cursor becomes invisible.  OS X has this functionality,
> and I never noticed it until I didn't have it, with stumpwm.

Hi,

Sorry for the broken links, I've changed my server since then and
anyway all the code has been merged upstream for a while now as Ben
pointed out.

I don't know how you can achieve exactly what you want (monitor
keyboard input) with CLX, however the unclutter[1] application comes
to mind, even if I don't think it does exactly what you're looking
for. Maybe you could see how it works and modify it (or rewrite it in
lisp if you have the courage :) to suit your needs.

Do let us know if you find a way to do what you want, I for one could
use that!

[1] http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/unclutter (the link to the
    source is in the right panel).

Cheers,
-- 
Lionel Flandrin

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