Re: [RP] banishing and keypress?

[Shawn Betts]

Joe Corneli <address@hidden> writes:

>    The long answer is no: it is the window manager's job to arbitrate mouse 
>    and pointer usage.  In the end, it's a philosophical point.  RP history 
>    seems to be on the side of using an external program, though.
>
> If think Trent's suggestion did meet my stated spec, but I'd probably
> prefer something that could recall the mouse on those rare occasions
> when I (or a guest) might like to use it.  If there is a way to get
> X11 to reread XF86Config-4 OTF, I could just write a script to adjust
> the values there & reload.
>
> I like "unclutter" because you kill the unclutter process & the mouse
> becomes visible again.  If unclutter could be modified to both
> immobilize the mouse and make it invisible, that would be just about
> perfect.

Hi Joe,

Is this what you want?

-Shawn

/* Warp the pointer to the bottom right corner of the screen any time a key is 
pressed. 
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2005 Shawn Betts <address@hidden>
 *
 * unrat is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
 * any later version.
 * 
 * unrat is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this software; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
 * the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
 * Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 */

/*
This is what I used to compile it:

gcc -g -Wall -O2  -I/usr/X11R6/include -o unrat unrat.c -L /usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
*/

#include <X11/Xos.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>
#include <X11/Xproto.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int (*defaulthandler)();

int
errorhandler(Display *display, XErrorEvent *error)
{
  if(error->error_code!=BadWindow)
    (*defaulthandler)(display,error);
  return 0;
}

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
  Display *display;
  int i, numscreens;

  display = XOpenDisplay(NULL);
  if(!display)
    {
      perror("could not open display");
      exit(1);
    }

  defaulthandler = XSetErrorHandler(errorhandler);
  numscreens = ScreenCount(display);

  for (i=0; i<numscreens; i++)
    {
      unsigned int j, nwins;
      Window dw1, dw2, *wins;
      
      XSelectInput(display,RootWindow(display, i), KeyReleaseMask | 
SubstructureNotifyMask);
      XQueryTree(display, RootWindow(display, i), &dw1, &dw2, &wins, &nwins);
      for (j=0; j<nwins; j++)
        XSelectInput(display, wins[j], KeyReleaseMask);
    }

  while (1) 
    {
      XEvent event;
      do 
        {
          XNextEvent(display,&event);
          if (event.type == CreateNotify)
            XSelectInput(display, event.xcreatewindow.window, KeyReleaseMask);
        } while(event.type != KeyRelease);

      /* A key was pressed. warp the rat. */
      for (i=0; i<numscreens; i++) 
        {
          int x, y, wx, wy;
          unsigned int mask;
          Window root, child;

          XQueryPointer (display, RootWindow(display, i),
                         &root, &child,
                         &x, &y, &wx, &wy,
                         &mask);
          if (x < DisplayWidth (display, i)-1
              || y < DisplayHeight (display, i)-1)
            XWarpPointer (display, None, RootWindow(display, i), 0, 0, 0, 0, 
DisplayWidth (display, i), DisplayHeight (display, i));
        }
    }

  XCloseDisplay (display);

  return 0;
}