Review Request 129967: Make KGlobalaccel X11 track XInput events to still work when an application grabs the keyboard

[Martin Gräßlin]

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As an idea: if I understand correctly the main motivation is to be able to trigger the volume control keys while a context menu is open. You are not that much interested in e.g. triggering Alt+Tab while context menu is shown.

So a possibility might be to add this to the client side. Assuming the Qt case: if keyboard is grabbed, context menu is open and the key event is not handled and one of the special keys which the application does not care about, it could close the context menu and XTest the event again. Then kglobalaccel would be able to handle it.

- Martin Gräßlin


On Feb. 24, 2017, 5:26 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 24, 2017, 5:26 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: kglobalaccel
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> Description
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> This means shortcuts still work when keyboard is grabbed by another
> application. This allows us to still take a screenshot/change volume
> with a context menu open.
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> The existing code doesn't seem to actually handle dynamic keyboard
> layout switching, this code matches that behaviour.
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> Interestingly alt+tab behavior is unchanged so it doesn't /severely/ break
> legitimate keyboard grabs like virtualbox.
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 0de00d4a6b0700a0c36fe291a8240bea43e62cc2 
>   cmake/modules/FindXKB.cmake PRE-CREATION 
>   src/runtime/plugins/xcb/CMakeLists.txt 45bf4dc9f9ec9146a0db5f93b4259ea6c4306d17 
>   src/runtime/plugins/xcb/kglobalaccel_x11.h 88b7f61e9cfa5e30df7f04f492a864f1ce8eb37a 
>   src/runtime/plugins/xcb/kglobalaccel_x11.cpp 9b37c7b600d6f25a0ea43643d8dee2593c3b7417 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129967/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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