Capturing all events from a presentation remote while allowing all other events to be sent normally

[Eric Sokolowsky]

Yes, I checked the status of the XIGrabDevice call. It was 0. I followed
your suggestion on using the device's id, and it does appear to work
better, at least well enough for my purposes. The only confusing thing now
is that I am getting event 35 (GenericEvent) back to my application when
the buttons on the remote are pressed. Do you have any pointers to
documentation on how I might get the key events from these?  Thanks for
your help.

Eric

On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 9:27 PM Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 05:42:46PM -0400, Eric Sokolowsky wrote:
> > I have an application that is used as a control system for a
> presentation,
> > under Linux and using X11. I have a USB presentation remote that acts as
> a
> > very miniature keyboard (four buttons: Page Up, Page Down, and two
> others)
> > which can be used to advance and go back in the presentation. I would
> like
> > to have my presentation application to receive all of the events from
> this
> > remote regardless of where the mouse focus is. But I would also like to
> be
> > able to receive the normal mouse and keyboard events if the current
> window
> > focus is on the presentation application. Using XIGrabDevice() I was able
> > to receive all events from the remote in the presentation application
> > regardless of the current focus but I was not able to receive any events
> > from the mouse or other keyboard while the grab was active. Is what I'm
> > trying to do possible?
> >
> > Here's the code I'm using:
> >
> > XIEventMask masks[1];
> > unsigned char mask[(XI_LASTEVENT+7)/8];
> > memset(mask, 0, sizeof(mask));
> > XISetMask(mask, XI_KeyPress);
> > masks[0].deviceid = XIAllMasterDevices;
>
> replace this with the device ID of the remote.
>
> > masks[0].mask_len = sizeof(mask);
> > masks[0].mask = mask;
> > Status result = XIGrabDevice(dpy, deviceid, win, CurrentTime, None,
> > XIGrabModeAsync, XIGrabModeAsync, True, masks);
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
>
> did you check the status? XIGrabDevice with XIAllMasterDevices should fail
> because it doesn't resolve into any device (this is one of the requests
> where you can't use that fake device ID). Not sure why this worked at all.
> Either way, using the remote's ID should work.
>
> Cheers,
>    Peter
>
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