On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:43 -0600, Axel von Bertoldi wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm wondering if GTK+ provides any facilities for global hotkeys or > key-bindings. By global I Mean for the entire desktop, not just a > window or application. Specifically, I have a panel-applet I'd like to > activate with a keyboard shortcut, much like Tomboy or Deskbar. Though > I have looked at the source for both of those projects, I haven't > found it helpful as my applet is written in C and I have ~0 C#/mono > experience. > > I've also tried the gtk_binding api, but it seems to work at the > window level (or maybe I'm just using it wrong). Any tips would be > appreciated. the only app that can do this is the window manager. no other app can do it, and i don't believe there is a way to ask the window manager to things on behalf of another application either. if you're trying to right a kiosk-like setup, you have to do quite a bit more than just write an application. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
