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Re: Grabbing all events in a frame (with xelb?)
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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Re: Grabbing all events in a frame (with xelb?) |
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Tue, 05 Mar 2019 22:01:12 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> 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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