[Xcb] I’m writing a launcher and I need to capture the keyboard

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 03/21/12 07:53 AM, Alexander Teinum wrote:
> What I want to accomplish is to have a launcher program that, once
> itself is launched, should capture the keyboard while blocking
> keyboard input from other applications, until the user presses enter
> or escape. 

These should have more information on the needed requests, though written
in terms of the older Xlib API's instead of xcb API (which is more directly
mappable to the protocol description):

http://who-t.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/high-level-overview-of-grabs.html
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#requests:GrabKeyboard
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/libX11/specs/libX11/libX11.html#Keyboard_Grabbing_

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