Functionality to capture X events

[Marty Jack]

On 04/26/2011 01:26 PM, André Rodrigues wrote:
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> I would like to know if it is possible to capture keys in X that reach the X by events (lirc events, to be more precisely) and without create another window.
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> There is some functionality for this?
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> Many thanks.
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> André Rodrigues
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Without knowing what exactly it is you want to accomplish, it is hard to give advice, but it would seem the best approach might be to stay away from having X involved at all.

Can you not do what you want to do by accessing the device directly using a package like lirc (http://www.lirc.org)