kdesktop and excessive key capturing

Ellis Whitehead ellis at kde.org
Fri Oct 4 13:26:13 BST 2002


Hi Lubos,

On Friday 04 October 2002 11:20, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Saturday 28 September 2002 15:31, Ellis Whitehead wrote:
> > I just noticed that every key a user presses from anywhere in kde gets
> > run through kdesktop's global shortcut routine, except for globals
> > shortcuts from other programs.  This wasn't the case in KDE 3.0.  Anyone
> > know what's going on?
>
>   That's KDesktop's XAutoLock, it gets every user keypress on every window
> (except for the grabbed global shortcuts). But I don't think that code was
> changed recently. Perhaps you didn't have screensaver enabled when testing
> with KDE3.0?

Many thanks for the explanation.  I only turned the screen saver on recently. 

Ciao,
Ellis




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