Re^2: Gtk2 X11 GrabKey

... using any application ...

I think so, thats usually what they mean by "global hotkey" or "system wide hotkey"

gtk apparently doesn't have a global hotkey capability built-in -- if the app/window doesn't have focus, it can't get events -- python/c/cpp folks apparently use libkeybinder (whatever that is)

the OP issue appears to be that Gtk2->main; is blocking (or the other piece of code is blocking) ... so needs to poll, something along the lines of Re: AnyEvent + Wx, Gtk2/3 or Tk ?

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Re^3: Gtk2 X11 GrabKey by basiliscos (Pilgrim) on Dec 14, 2013 at 16:05 UTC
Thanks all! Unfortunately I don't see event-loop in X11::Protocol, i.e. polling capabilities. I don't wan't go to low-level capabilities, i.e. poll underlying socket for events. I'll try to use the libkeybinder, and tell the details here. PS. Mixed usage of Gtk2 events and X11 events seems to be leading to some messy: `... my $seq = $x->GrabKey( $k->KeysymToKeycode("z"), 'AnyModifier', $x->root, 0, 'Asynchronous', 'Asynchronous'); $x->event_handler('queue'); my %event = $x->next_event; ### %event my $t = AE::timer 0, 1, sub { my %event = $x->next_event; # %event }; Gtk2->main;` [download] It exists with: `Protocol error: bad 2 (Value); Sequence Number 4 Opcode (33, 0) = GrabKey Bad value 183 (0xb7) at ./gtk-treeview-action line 31.` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Gtk2 X11 GrabKey by dcmertens (Scribe) on Dec 14, 2013 at 18:32 UTC
Shouldn't you say something like `return unless my %event = $x->dequeue_event` rather than `$x->next_event`? The docs seem to suggest that next_event will block until you get your final results. As to your error, I'm not sure what to say as I don't use X11. Sorry.	[reply] [d/l] [select]