translate button-event into key-event

[Florian Loitsch]

hi,
I'm trying to translate my 8th button into an "alt"-key by intercepting the 
button and sending a new key-event instead. This partially works, but when 
pressing another button at the same time this button is intercepted too, and 
I can't find any way to resend it (or just let it through). (Basically 
thumb-down, mouse1-click, thumb-up doesn't work.)

I've attached my program (90% of it are xlib-calls), but globally it consists 
of grabing the thumb-button (using XGrabButton), followed by an infinite loop 
intercepting the buttons and simulating key-events (XTestFakeKeyEvent).

I also noticed some strange behavior when using the thumb-buttons (8 and 9) on 
my Logitech mx400 (using the evdev driver):
===
$ ./translate
Grabbing Button...
event-loop
thumb down
why?         (mouse1 down)
why?         (mouse1 up)
             (thump up event lost)
thumb down
thumb up
===
I'm losing the button-up event when I do a mouse1 click while holding down the 
thumb-button.

mfg,
// florian loitsch
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