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Devine Lu Linvega

@drj Oooh! Yes, okay, let say I wanted to make it so some_little_program waits for a click on a window(`click on any window`), do you know how I can do this?

8 February at 16:45 | Open on merveilles.town
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David JONES

@neauoire I only ever wrote 1 X11 program, but it was using XLib and none of the new-fangled framework nonsense (it was on a DEC Ultrix machine in about 1994). I _think_ you "simply" call XNextEvent; see how xev.c does it gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/ap

I _think_ by default an X11 client gets all events (for all windows!) unless it has requested only events for particular windows (like their own, which most apps would do); i think that's XSelectInput.

8 February at 16:59 | Open on typo.social
Devine Lu Linvega

@drj aaah! amazing, thank you so much, that should be enough for me to get it working :)

8 February at 17:01 | Open on merveilles.town
ArBe

@neauoire @drj Not sure if this is helpful, but the `xprop` allows you to click on a window, and then it prints its properties to stdout. You could probably hook it up with a shell script, or maybe look into the source if you want to do something similar with the API

8 February at 18:21 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
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