Re: taking over global key events (X, NS, W32)

[Mathias Dahl]

> I'm also interested in this for my Inkmacs project. The easiest way so
> far was using the DBus bindings to catch the multimedia keys, which is a
> bit limited. I also tried using the Gnome hotkeys to bind it to a
> dispatcher, but that was so far not successful in Gnome 3 although it
> used to sort of work in earlier Gnomes.

If it turns out that it would be unsuitable to have Emacs listen
"globally" like this,
maybe a small program can be written to do the listening, sending dbus commands
that Emacs (or whoever else is listening) on the bus?

Just an idea.