On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:45:56 +0300 Riza Dindir <riza.din...@gmail.com> said:
> Hello All, > > I am grabbing buttons in an xlib. I am new to xlib. > > I have 3 grabs (XGrabButton) on buttons. One for button1+Mod1, another > for Button3+Mod1 and the last one for Button1+(Mod1|Control). All > these grabs are for button presses (ButtonPressMask). > > When I grab these with 3 different calls to XGrabButton (one for each > of the grabs mentioned above), they work fine. I can operate on > application windows which handle only Button 1 presses (no modifiers, > the application does its own thing with that button press). > > But when I call XGrabPointer with AnyButton and AnyModifier (one call. > and handle the modifier filtering in the event handler), this does not > work on windows that process Button 1 presses (with no modifiers). > > Since the XGrabPointer call with AnyButton and AnyModifier does grab > for all modifiers and buttons, how should I make it propagate to the > window the button press event (without modifiers). I tried XSendEvent > to send the button press event to that window, but it did not respond. > The application does not operate as expected. XAllowEvents() is what you want to allow grabbed events to go on to the client. As already mentioned - you really want to stick to grabbing just the events+modifiers you need, not everything. this is what window managers have done for decades to handle click-to-focus and other bindings like alt+left mouse to move a window anywhere on the window etc. > It is perfectly ok for me to use 3 XGrabButton calls, but was > wondering why this would not work for a XGrabButton call with > AnyButton and AnyModifier parameters. > > Best Regards > Riza > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com
