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Old 10-16-2009
Question Perl - Reading keyboard keystroke

Hello All,

I wounder if any one know if perl have the ability to run script in the background which record each keyboard keystorke?

If yes , how can I implement the part which reading the keyboard keystroke?
Is there any moudle that handle it ?

Thanks a head
Alalush
 

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XkbGetGeometry(3)						   XKB FUNCTIONS						 XkbGetGeometry(3)

NAME
XkbGetGeometry - Loads a keyboard geometry if you already have the keyboard description SYNOPSIS
Status XkbGetGeometry (Display *dpy, XkbDescPtr xkb); ARGUMENTS
- dpy connection to the X server - xkb keyboard description that contains the ID for the keyboard and into which the geometry should be loaded DESCRIPTION
You can load a keyboard geometry as part of the keyboard description returned by XkbGetKeyboard. However, if a keyboard description has been previously loaded, you can instead obtain the geometry by calling the XkbGetGeometry. In this case, the geometry returned is the one associated with the keyboard whose device ID is contained in the keyboard description. XkbGetGeometry can return BadValue, BadImplementation, BadName, BadAlloc, or BadLength errors or Success if it succeeds. DIAGNOSTICS
BadAlloc Unable to allocate storage BadImplementation Invalid reply from server BadLength The length of a request is shorter or longer than that required to minimally contain the arguments BadName A font or color of the specified name does not exist BadValue An argument is out of range SEE ALSO
XkbGetKeyboard(3) X Version 11 libX11 1.3.2 XkbGetGeometry(3)
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