Why XGrabKey generates extra focus-out and focus-in events?

Question

Does anyone know an xlib function to trap a keypress event without losing the original focus? How to get rid of it?

(or \"to use XGrabKey() without generating Grab-s

Answer 1

Looks like XQueryKeymap will sort you. See below for C++ source code I found:

/* compile with g++ keytest.cpp -LX11 -o keytest */
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 
#include 

double gettime() {
 timeval tim;
 gettimeofday(&tim, NULL);
 double t1=tim.tv_sec+(tim.tv_usec/1000000.0);
 return t1;
}

int main() {
 Display *display_name;
 int depth,screen,connection;
 display_name = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
 screen = DefaultScreen(display_name);
 depth = DefaultDepth(display_name,screen);
 connection = ConnectionNumber(display_name);
 printf("Keylogger started\n\nInfo about X11 connection:\n");
 printf(" The display is::%s\n",XDisplayName((char*)display_name));
 printf(" Width::%d\tHeight::%d\n",
 DisplayWidth(display_name,screen),
 DisplayHeight(display_name,screen));
 printf(" Connection number is %d\n",connection);

 if(depth == 1)
  printf(" You live in prehistoric times\n");
 else
  printf(" You've got a coloured monitor with depth of %d\n",depth);

 printf("\n\nLogging started.\n\n");

 char keys_return[32];
 while(1) {
  XQueryKeymap(display_name,keys_return);
  for (int i=0; i<32; i++) {
   if (keys_return[i] != 0) {
    int pos = 0;
    int num = keys_return[i];
    printf("%.20f: ",gettime());
    while (pos < 8) {
     if ((num & 0x01) == 1) {
      printf("%d ",i*8+pos);
     }
     pos++; num /= 2;
    }
    printf("\n");
   }
  }
  usleep(30000);
 }
 XCloseDisplay(display_name);
}

Note, this isn't tested code, nor is it mine -- I merely found it on the Internet.