From: Benjamin Kudria <ben@...>
Date: 2008-02-15T11:09:25+09:00
Subject: Capture X keystrokes

Hi,

I'm the author of Snippits[1], a text expansion program for Linux.
Snippits  types by generating X keystrokes, using the xte utility from
the xautomation suite.  However, the way xte reads typed X characters is
a bit of a hack: it generates key commands to select back one word
(ctrl+shift+left), cut (ctrl+x), and then it reads the clipboard (using
xsel).  This method is slow, error-prone, and ugly.

I was wondering if there was any way to capture X keystrokes as they are
generated.  Does anyone know of a better method than above?  I'm not
averse to using Ruby UI Toolkit bindings, if they have some method for
this.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

1: http://ben.kudria.net/code/snippits
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