freedesktop - Aug 2005 - [fdo] Help! I can't fake events!

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To:   freedesktop@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Help! I can't fake events!

I am very frustrated right now. I need to be able to send an event to
a program but for some, unknown, reason I have been unable to find a
single way to send a event to a window without the stupid SYNTHETIC
flag getting set. I do not wish to explain why I must do this (if you
really must know you can ask), its very complex. I have searched the
internet, I have read documentation, etc, etc. I have found nothing on
this topic.

Again, I must send an event to a window without the SYNTHETIC flag
being set. I can not use XTest because it does not send an event to a
window it creates fake input that will become an event, but does not
directly create an event.

I have a hard time believing that this is truly impossible. I hope
that it simply isn't documented.

Thank you for your time,
James Steven Supancic III

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> I am very frustrated right now. I need to be able to send an event to
> a program but for some, unknown, reason I have been unable to find a
> single way to send a event to a window without the stupid SYNTHETIC
> flag getting set. I do not wish to explain why I must do this (if you
> really must know you can ask), its very complex. I have searched the
> internet, I have read documentation, etc, etc. I have found nothing on
> this topic.
> 
> Again, I must send an event to a window without the SYNTHETIC flag
> being set. I can not use XTest because it does not send an event to a
> window it creates fake input that will become an event, but does not
> directly create an event.
What is wrong with XTest. I used that (if I remember right) to fake
keyboard events from a barcode reader I had (since it was easier to fake
X events, than to insert events into gdk internally).


Stian

On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 18:37 -0700, James Supancic wrote:
> 
> I have a hard time believing that this is truly impossible. I hope
> that it simply isn't documented.
It is not possible, no. (Other than XTest, having the send_event flag
set when using XSendEvent(), or patching the X server.)

Havoc