wine users - Jul 2010 - SendEvent

Had a question about Wine ignoring the X11 SendEvent method, specifically for
something using "xdotool" as follows:

"xdotool type --window $wineWindow test"

Basically, I would like to know if it is possible to configure or recompile wine
to accept and act upon events received in the above manner; and if it is
possible, how can I do it?

Currently, any input in such a manner is ignored by wine, completely, whether it
is sent to a wine virtual desktop or otherwise


Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

nyquist wrote:
> Currently, any input in such a manner is ignored by wine, completely,
whether it is sent to a wine virtual desktop or otherwise
You can't do much by sending events to the virtual desktop or any Wine
window because Wine creates only one top level X-window (not counting special
X-window for OpenGL).

In theory it should work, in practice - you'll have to focus the right Wine
"window" first, then send text to it. However that text should be sent
as sequence of key presses and releases. Nothing else will work for Wine.

nyquist wrote:
> I verified that the window I wanted to send to had focus within the wine
virtual desktop, still no luck
That means that xtools is not sending key down/key up events at all or sends
them with wrong information.