How to properly use XGrabKey to get a program hotkey

Timo Juhani Lindfors timo.lindfors at iki.fi
Wed Oct 27 12:05:26 PDT 2010


cheshirekow <cheshirekow at gmail.com> writes:
> My goal is to have a program that sleeps in the background but can be
> activated by the user via some "hotkey". From digging around the Xlib

Is this program running as the normal user or is this some privileged
service (say "switch to another user")?




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