On Thursday 07 December 2006 05:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to make a Python app that runs in the background, and when a > user hits a key combination, for a function to run. This sounds simple > enough, but all of the keypress detecting libraries I can find count on > you creating a window and then detecting keypresses while that window > has focus. I want my function to execute when the user presses the > hotkey anywhere. I searched the PyGTK documentation and found an old > newsgroup post where someone mentioned the C GTK+ library has it but > PyGTK does not, PyQT showed no results, not sure where else I should > look. I'd be willing to use a library that isn't a windowing toolkit -- > I just want to be able to be able to globally detect a keypress. Any > ideas?
A little bit of googling revealed: XGrabKey: http://tronche.com/gui/x/xlib/input/XGrabKey.html Example: http://tigerdyr.wheel.dk/ctwm-archive/1328.html It's done here in C, hopefully you can do the same with the python module for xlib that was mentioned earlier. - Jonathan Google = best friend -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
