Greetings!

I ordered a Logitech G15. It's in the mail, and while it's on its way, I'm pondering the various (geeky) things I could do with it.

What I would like to do is set it up so that my instant messenging happens on the LCD panel. I'm perfectly willing to write the code to do this part.

The problem is this: when running an X server (as we all like to do), the X server generally gets all the keyboard input. I would like to divert the keyboard input when I press a key combination (and un-divert it when I press the combination again) to an arbitrary application.

Does anyone know of a way to do this (aside from hacking xfree86)?

Maybe here you will find what you need.

That will help if I ever write a Java-based GUI program .

The problem is, while this can detect keys within an application, it can't stop keys from being sent to other applications, nor can it detect keys that weren't sent directly to it.

Thanks for the reply

I dont know but in the new distros there is SCIM, which is key input for all kinds of languages, which may have done the hacking See whether poking about with this gives you the result you need.

Looking at it for a quick moment, it looks very promising. I'll have to look with a little more detail, but I'm wondering if (since it has keystrokes for different input systems) it would work to just write a custom "input system" that feeds the keys to my application.

Thanks!