Synthesizing keyboard events

[Troy]

An idea would be to use XRebindKeysym to tie an unused 
keycode to the string "@" and then Use XSendEvent and event type 
XKeyPressedEvent to send the event. 

No time to test this, sorry. Seems like it should work, though.




Troy Korjuslommi                Tksoft Inc.
tjk at tksoft.com



> 
> Hi,
> 
> We would like to synthesize keyboard events.  For instance, synthesize
> typing XK_at.  The problem we encounter is that on a lot of keyboards,
> this is not available directly, but in combination with some modifiers.
> 
> - Calling XKeysymToKeycode(XK_at) is not sufficient, since it doesn't
> give us the modifier mask to synthesize.
> - Looping calling XKeycodeToKeysym() doesn't seem to be very useful: one
> can one know the modifiers for reaching the given index?
> - One possibility would be to call XkbTranslateKeycode() with every
> modifier combination until one is found, but that's a bit slow...
> 
> Is there any direct way to get the keycode and modifier mask to be
> synthesized?
> 
> Samuel
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