Keysym to modifiers state

[Jim Gettys]

The man command is your friend: XKeysymToKeycode.
			- Jim


On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 17:35 +0200, Cvetelin Andreev wrote:
> Search where? in keysymdef.h?
> 
> With XLookupString(some_event) I can convert keycode+modifiers to keysym,  
> I want to do the opposite one from keysym to keycode + modifiers so i can  
> pass the keycode and the modifiers to XSednEvent
> 
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:24:38 +0200, Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org> wrote:
> 
> > You'll have to search for the keysym I suspect...
> > 			- Jim
> >
> > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 17:13 +0200, Cvetelin Andreev wrote:
> >> The problem is that I dont have an event. I have only a keysym. I want  
> >> to
> >> emulate a key event to specified window.
> >>
> >> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:05:12 +0200, Jim Gettys <jg at freedesktop.org>  
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > No, you get the modifiers state from the event itself.  All keypress
> >> > events include this information.
> >> > 			- Jim
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:51 +0200, Cvetelin Andreev wrote:
> >> >> Hi all,
> >> >>
> >> >> After a week researching did not find some answers.
> >> >>
> >> >> I want to send a KeyEvent with XSendEvent with specified keysym. But  
> >> the
> >> >> KeyEvent structure requres keycode (which is system dependant) and
> >> >> modifiers. I can obtain the keycode from the keysym with
> >> >> KKeysymToKeycode,
> >> >> but what about modifiers?
> >> >> A solution is to get the keycode, and to test this keycode with all
> >> >> modifiers masks for equality with the original keysym with
> >> >> XKeycodeToKeysym (or ewith constructing event with each modifiers
> >> >> combination and test it with XLookupString). However the  
> >> combinations of
> >> >> modifiers are large number.
> >> >>
> >> >> So is there a way to get the modifiers state from the keysym?
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
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